User:Stephane Lo Presti/News/2012-06-07

First WikiChat on June 13 - June 7, 2012

Hello everyone,

Now that the one-week discussion period on my previous news is over, I'd like to propose that move ahead with the first "WikiChat".

1) Date and time

We'll meet on Wednesday 13 June and will have 3 discussions, all on the same agenda so that everyone has an opportunity to comment (whatever the time zone). The first 30 minutes of each discussion is for the Guild Wars Wiki community, the next 30 minutes are for the Guild Wars 2 Wiki community.

Times are:

• 10AM - 11AM PDT (19h - 20h CEST)
• 1PM - 2PM PDT (22h - 23h CEST)
• 5PM - 6PM PDT (2h - 3h CEST, next day)

2) IRC instructions

The discussions will take place on the #gw2wMeetings channel on the Gamesurge IRC server. It's actually very easy to log in from any browser, just go to this page: http://webchat.gamesurge.net/

You could just type in a Nickname and enter "gw2wMeetings" in the "Channels" field, then type on the "Connect" button to be in the chat room. However your host name will be used to display information about you and I strongly advise against you doing this. The alternative is simply to create an account on the gamesurge server, please see instructions below (I'll advise you to do this well in advance): https://gamesurge.net/newuser/

We can always discuss details of this on my talkpage. If people think that it's too much trouble for a WikiChat, I can try to work on simpler alternative. And if this does not work, we could always try to do this on a wikipage. (but feedback from my initial news seemed to indicate that IRC was ok)

3) Agenda

This agenda is asymmetrical, leaning more towards the activities on the GW2 Wiki, but this will give more time to discuss those on the Guild Wars Wiki.

• ITEM1: Status of administrative requests

See gw1:Guild_Wars_Wiki:Requests_for_technical_administration and Guild_Wars_2_Wiki:Requests_for_technical_administration

• ITEM2: About the few legal questions that were asked

See gw1:Feedback_talk:Stephane_Lo_Presti#Copyrights, Guild_Wars_2_Wiki_talk:Community_portal#Copyright_text and User_talk:Stephane_Lo_Presti#Non-English_wiki_support.3F

• ITEM3: GW2 Wiki interface redesign

See Talk:Main_Page/editcopy#Implemented

• ITEM4: List of fansites

The current list of GW2 Fansites has been trimmed down but I'd like to discuss the possibility to take a new route, which would include us linking to this list from our sites.

• ITEM5: Mobile version of our wikis

Someone mentioned installing an extension to make the wiki easier to access from mobile/smartphones and I'd like to assess whether: 1) there's a lot of people interested; and 2) there are major arguments AGAINST it. (This is by the way not an acknowledgement that we'll be doing that or that we're working on related projects, please no second-guessing ^^)

4) Let me know if you have questions, comments or suggestions!

Thanks and I hope that the WikiChat will be the great opportunity to talk to you "face to face"!

(also, wishing you a great Beta Weekend Event 2 if you're playing ^^)