Wookieepedia:Mofferences

All Wookieepedians are invited to attend the occasional Wookieepedia mofference. Kindly don't be scared away by the name; we like to have all opinions at the meetings.

How to join the meeting
IRC: irc.freenode.net #wookieepedia

For a list of clients, see IRC. Freenode provides web access to our IRC channel via the freenode webchat gateway. Note that you will have to be identified with nickname services (NickServ) in order to enter the main channel.

(Hint: You only get 16 characters in your IRC nickname.)

Users who use the webchat gateway to attend the Mofference may experience considerable lag during the meeting, when there is more activity than usual in the channel, and so it is recommended that a chat client such as ChatZilla be used if you wish to participate effectively.

Please note
Per Single-issue voters, only those users with 50 valid (non-vandalism, non-fanon) edits to the Main (article) namespace may be given voice and a vote at the Mofference.

Discussion of Agenda items is to be held at the Mofference itself, with the exception of procedural comments by administrators and affected users. Comments added to Agenda items will likely be reverted by administration.

Next meeting
The next Mofference is scheduled for Sunday, November 10, 2012 at 00:00 UTC, which is 7 PM Eastern Standard Time Saturday in North America.

Agenda
This is the agenda for topic discussions at the Mofference. Everyone is welcome to add a topic to the list, which will be discussed and/or voted on by those present. Please keep in mind that should this list grow too long, some topics at the end of the list may be removed in the interest of time. Everyone is reminded that discussions on these topics should be reserved for the meeting and not discussed here.
 * 1) A second Layout Guide: Fred and I both want to propose some additions to the Layout Guide, on Musical themes and published narrative works (novels, comics, video games, etc), respectively. However, we can't just add these to the existing Layout Guide in one of those gray-colored boxes, as the current LG states at the top "This Layout Guide is an official guide as to how an in-universe article should be structured." Adding Out-of-universe articles to the current In-universe Layout Guide would necessitate the inclusion of everything that the LG requires, including the erroneous "Behind the scenes," "Appearances," and "Sources" sections. So, what I'd like to discuss at the Mofference is the creation of a second Layout Guide, specifically for Out-of-universe articles. Later CTs could determine the gray-colored requirement boxes for specific kinds of articles (musical themes, published narrative works, real-world people, etc), but for now we should just create one with a basic framework. I'll mock something up. If we approve the creation of this, we should also discuss whether we want to create a new Layout Guide page for it, or whether we want to add it onto the bottom of the current LG page. Menkooroo (talk) 06:28, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) Amendment to the sourcing guide: Some changes to how references should be added; specifically changing the way that notes and references are inserted. It's not too major of a change, but what I believe to be an important one.&mdash; Cal Jedi Infinite Empire.svg (Personal Comm Channel) 02:48, October 28, 2012 (UTC)

Attendance

 * 1) Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 00:40, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) A Mofferenenrenncene?  JangFett  (Talk) 03:13, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) Dark greetings and such, and let's bring back PurpleTentacle again.&mdash; Cal Jedi Infinite Empire.svg (Personal Comm Channel) 03:30, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) I'm not making any promises, as there's a chance that I could be just plain busy that evening, but if I'm not, I'll try to attend.  Trak Nar  Ramble on 03:34, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 5) MOFFERENCE Cade   Calrayn  StupidRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit.svg 03:41, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 6) Kadann hates us because we were loyal to Trioculus to the very end. But with Trioculus as Emperor, at least we had influence and shared the rule of the Empire. Menkooroo (talk) 06:28, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 7) Depending on from where sunflares do come this time. (: – Tm_T@Wookieepedia:&#126;$ 06:47, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 8) Sleep shall be sacrificed for this glorious meeting! 1358  (Talk)  10:56, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 9) &mdash;MJ&mdash; Jedi Council Chambers 17:47, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 10) Bring on the random socializing! NaruHina  Talk Anakinsolo.png 19:33, October 27, 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * To clarify: is this 7 PM ET Friday night, as the infobox states, or is it intended to be Saturday night in the U.S., as Mofferences have been in the past? &mdash;MJ&mdash; Jedi Council Chambers 17:47, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * The intention was to put it on Saturday night for the US. Feel free to correct if I messed this up. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 21:49, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Dates/times have now been corrected. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Jedi Council Chambers 02:39, October 28, 2012 (UTC)

Meeting transcripts

 * 1) January 7, 2006 (PDF)
 * 2) January 16, 2006 (PDF)
 * 3) February 2, 2006 (PDF)
 * 4) February 28, 2006 (PDF)
 * 5) April 16, 2006 (Text)
 * 6) May 14, 2006 (PDF)
 * 7) August 19, 2006 (Text)
 * 8) November 10, 2006 (Text) (PDF)
 * 9) December 8, 2006 (Text) (PDF)
 * 10) February 23, 2007 (Text) (PDF)
 * 11) June 2, 2007 (Text)
 * 12) September 9, 2007 (Text) (PDF)
 * 13) January 5, 2008 (Text)
 * 14) August 23, 2008 (Text) (Minutes)
 * 15) January 25, 2009 (Text) (Minutes)
 * 16) July 26, 2009 (Text) (Minutes)
 * 17) April 2, 2011 (Text) (Minutes)
 * 18) February 12, 2012 (Text) (Minutes)