Design Research-Editing Department KIT

This is a bi-weekly meeting between the Design Research team and the leads of the Editing Vertical teams (Collaboration (Flow), Wikitext, VisualEditor, mobile editors, Multimedia, Content Translation, Upload Wizard) to coordinate and plan Design Research work. This meeting is intended to clarify priorities, define work, schedule work, manage conflicts, share findings, and ensure Design Research and Editing stay aligned in their work. See the Meeting Standard Operating Procedure.

Last meeting 1 Dec 2015. Next Meeting 8 Dec 2015.

New topics for next meeting:
Add new topics here between meetings.

= Project Status =
 * 1) Test VE Link Inspector 101166 and Education Features T108620
 * 2) Daisy: Link Inspector testing is completed, and passed.  (Ended up testing on Beta Cluster).  Still not sure if Education is ready - JMo - Education is ready. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research/Link_Inspector_Usability_Testing
 * 3) Cross-wiki notification design (part of Echo) T114086
 * 4) Have scheduled more testing sessions.  JMo - sessions tomorrow, Thursday, and next week.
 * 5) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 6) No change 1 Dec Nov 2015.
 * 7) Pending: Prateek has filed bugs and will fix them and then re-test.
 * 8) Content Translation – Translation Dashboard
 * 9) Pau: Protocol is ready, test plan is ready.  JMo: Test plan is fabulous.
 * 10) Started recruiting.
 * 11) J-Mo withdrawing concern about translation quality issues.
 * 12) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 13) No urgent audience for this work (because Mobile VE work mostly paused)
 * 14) TODO: Joel to tell James to stash these tasks where he will see them when mobile work is resumed
 * 15) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems [T100011], T86956
 * 16) No change 1 Dec 2015: Trevor to figure out which team to work on it.
 * 17) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 18) Summary of current issue: Where the toolbar should be are figured out, but we don't have enough room on mobile for the current toolbar.  Should we go modal?
 * 19) TODO: Make sure James/Lindsey Ann make a decision about putting this into Q3 goals, including Design people.
 * 20) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 21) JMo: title should be "learnability of our content"
 * 22) Yesterday a professor offered to run an undergrad research group around this from Jan-May.  Could produce a good survey.
 * 23) Would require more from JMo.  JMo will talk to Abbey about whether he should use his time this way.
 * 24) Trevor: saw research that younger millenials go to Youtube instead of Wikipedia for facts.

Discussion

 * 1) next meeting
 * 2) meet in 1 week to get us back on the requested cadence.
 * 3) new invitees?
 * 4) Joe
 * 5) Lindsey Ann?  No, this meeting is Product Managers, not Engineering Managers, but one-time CC so she is aware of it.