Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2018-08-13

August 13 2018

== Previous  Action Items ==

• none

== Keep ==

• Design reviews!+1+1+1

• Experimenting with play store localization and promotion in other languages +1+1+1

• Taking care of the landscape UI of the App+1

• Learning and using Kotlin in the project+1

• Major post-release analysis/reporting? (+1)+1

• Keep on being awesome, y'all+10k

== Stop ==

== Start ==

• Making Phab persist ticket status when you move tickets to another board +++

• Being better about creating tickets for new designs before grooming/planning

• Adding reply templates to the OTRS+1+1+1

• **better** reply templates

• BTW there are some in this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Oo0zEWCPXONRugyonJqltAgT3FJI4ZvRz5aQWvM1bw/edit#gid=239349797 - feel free to add/update to them too

• handling bottle-necks to major releases better?+1

• remember metrics earlier

• Trying to introduce mechanisms for A/B testing in the app with Editor-related experiments  +40k+1

• Learning more about what is involved with editing on Wikipedia and immersing into editor experiences as the team starts working on more contribution features

• go to Suggestbot, try Content Translation tool, look at user pages and talk pages of prominent editors, look at talk pages for contentious articles

• also good resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Essays/Primer_for_AfD,_AfC_and_PROD

• Getting started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started

• Edit-a-thon for apps offsite?

== Questions ==

• if the poll notifications don’t give the results expected, will we still keep what is already built, in the app?

• yes, notifications will eventually be full feature in the app

• Rita is changing teams!!! what will be of us!!! 😫😭

• will be slowly ramping down from Sept through Oct

• Growth team's goals overlap with Android

• Carolyn will fill in

== Action Items ==

• Charlotte - make sure there's a list of tickets to groom/plan and email to team prior to meeting

• Lani - see who controls OTRS and look into adding templates

• Charlotte - follow up with Corey re: testing

• Lani - Add edit-a-thon to offsite schedule