Several weeks ago:

• Collected additional stakeholder input on the research goals and questions (Carolyn, Nat, Sherry)
• Had kickoff call with dScout

Sandra has done two sessions so far then we regrouped and discussed changes to make to the discussion guide to get at what we're trying to learn, better. We found it trickier than even anticipated, to get at examples of what we call "broad curiosity" cases that participants could tell us about, since broad curiosity is a definition we developed internally and to ask users about how and when their curiosity gets piqued is not so straightforward. Plan is for Sandra to do a few more sessions after updating the discussion guide, and we'll check in again then.

Sandra is going to start on a research brief outline for this research this week, as she is able around her other project. Still looking for responses from Martin for my questions above, to help toward that.

As discussed with Miriam: we see a need for a mixed-method approach to inform how to define and operationalize 'good abandonment'.

Thanks Eli - let me know when and for how long you want Sandra (contractor) for doing this work, when you're able - she is available now.

We determined this was work for Applied Science. Miriam, reassigning to you as I'm not sure what the result of your discussion was with the WE4 team was on this, and whether to resolve this task or repurpose it.

Progress this week:

• Mike and I discussed research details with Sherry and Justin this week, including rough timeline, languages to test in, and how to confirm and create the user needs statements and concepts to test.
• Olga agreed with making this study a hypothesis; I just shared draft hypothesis text with Sherry, for her review.
• Justin has created a first draft of the user need statements for testing.

Thanks for letting us know. Marking as closed. Please reach out again if you want to return to it again in a future quarter.

Thank you Mike for your work on this, and for also capturing these methodological learnings!

Mike has confirmed he can take this on in the needed timeframe in a consulting time capacity. Bethany to also give operational support.

Hi Brooke - I spoke with Mike about this research request that you'd discussed with him.

Leila - could you please take a quick look at the summary-in-process for the first four parts of the funnel, in the deck (looking just at what's in the slides themselves so far, not the notes)?

I met with Halley this week to understand the goals and context of her listening tour better, and start to give guidance on the questions.

Pasting what Suman just told me, in response to my questions to him on the definitions or how he's thinking about the "Internet Users" and "Knows WP" buckets:

Hi Leila - confirming I have seen this. Overall makes sense. A few questions...

Hi Halley - thanks for this request. I thought I had responded to it already - sorry for realizing I had not yet! I was confirming with the Design Researchers about their Q3 workloads and research roadmaps to confirm how much open availability we have. We prioritize research with external participants over studies with internal participants, so do not have capacity to do all the assistance you are requesting, but we can assist you with:

• Assistance designing the questions & structure
• Assistance with recruitment activities (external)

Moving to Research Q3 workboard; Claudia plans to do some work to support Kiernan in the PSI space and this task will be used to continue to track that work. Claudia to update the task with the exact scope planned for Q3.

Setting due date for when we want the first round of the continuous research sessions to happen, at the latest.

Thanks Leila - updated the task and due date to scope it to preparing the proposal.

Leila - since this is a new significant Essential work project - would like to get your approval and input on it.

Daisy has discussed this project with Sonja and confirmed its prioritization.

Thanks Lauren - letting you know I've seen this, and just haven't had a chance to discuss with Daisy yet because of the holidays last week and her being out sick this week.

Thanks, Tais. After discussing with Mike, I am confirming this project, and Bethany will be taking it on.

Tais discussed this with Mike, who recommended the need for the qualitative research component of this.

Closing this as it is a duplicate of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406276

Martin, Mike, and Yu-Ming put together some Q1 reflections for this area.