Wookieepedia:Mofferences/August 23, 2008

 This page is an archive of a community-wide discussion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made in the Senate Hall or new Consensus Track pages rather than here so that this page is preserved as a historic record. Graestan ( Talk ) 14:32, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Log

 * August 23, 2008 (Text)

Minutes

 * Forum:Knowledge Bank – The existence of the forum was in question, and consensus was to keep the Knowledge Bank with some conditions: that it is stressed on the forum page that only verifiable answers may be given; that "KB" be automatically added to the names of each Knowledge Bank thread that is created (as well as "CT" to Consensus Track, "SH" to Senate Hall, and "NB" to Administrators' Noticeboard) in order to easily identify KB threads on the RCs; and finally that any users who take exception to the Knowledge Bank may leave it to be dealt with by those who are more willing.
 * Policy and consensus updates – A new way to encourage users to pay attention to new policies was sought, and the consensus was to advertise the updates page on the sitenotice from time to time as well as to add a link to the updates page to the new user welcome message as well as the Monobook sidebar.
 * Wookieepedia:Userbox proposal – It was decided to kill this page, as its function has steadily decreased over time. In its place, a more updated guide to making custom userboxes will be created.
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars mess – With impending continuity problems from this movie and television series, it was decided to create both a header template as well as a sectional template in order to warn users of potential conflicting sources.
 * Main Page update – The addition of a "recently featured" link to the FA space in anticipation of the one-FA-per-day system's arrival was approved.
 * No personality? &mdash; Consensus was not to relax the featured article rules in cases where a "Personality and traits" section would be somewhat difficult.
 * Collapsible appearances – There was no consensus as to whether collapsible appearances for television episodes should be allowed.
 * Publicizing Interviews – It was decided that interviews should not be publicized off the site for now.
 * Random contests – Consensus was to allow the creation of similar contests to Coolest Thing Ever or Lamest Thing Ever, as well as a more competitive contest involving good article nominations.
 * Family fields in the infobox – There was no consensus as to whether these should be added to character infoboxes.
 * Eras tags – There was no consensus on whether eras tags should be used for when the subject appeared in canon sources, or it can be conjectured that the subject existed in the time period.
 * Hair, eye, and skin color in infoboxes – Consensus was to keep hair and eye color as infobox fields; no consensus on skin color as an infobox field.
 * Sidebar links – Consensus was to add CT to the Monobook sidebar.
 * Official browser: Firefox – Consensus was to Add links establishing Firefox as the "official browser" of the site for ease of viewing.
 * De-GAing – It was decided that there should be a good article removal/review process, to be hashed out later in consensus threads.
 * GA nominators – Starting with the set of nominations currently on the page, good article nominations will have to have five support votes in addition to the nominator's vote for quality assurance, similar to the current FAN system.