Wookieepedia:Mofferences

All Wookieepedians are invited to attend the fortnightly Wookieepedia meeting.

Time
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 @ 8PM EST (-5 GMT)

Meet the author
I've been thinking about doing a chat session with an author/artist/George/whoever for a couple weeks now. Then when I saw that the Galactic Senate did one, I decided maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all. I'm not sure where to go from here, tho. WhiteBoy 06:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Who?
 * I don't know how open artists and authors are to this type of thing. But I assume we would take a vote and try for the top pick, if they don't to do it, try the second pick, etc.
 * CooperTFN had an excellent suggestion (IMHO) of inviting Karen Traviss since she's recently said she doesn't like the wiki concept. With her we could discuss how does Wookieepedia help and/or hender her work, and what could we do to help alleviate the hindrances?
 * CooperTFN also mentioned focusing on a particular work (one that has been controversial?) instead of all of their works.


 * How? Possibilities...
 * IRC/Jabber chat similar to our meetings.
 * Other option may be Slashdot-style: collect 10 interview-style questions from the community, send them to the person, let them respond, and we post the response to the site.
 * Possibly (not likely) a podcast-style interview, but I'd really rather it be one of the other two.
 * Other ideas?

First anniversary
What can we do to celebrate Wookieepedia's first anniversary? It's coming up REALLY soon! WhiteBoy 06:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Festivities aside, I think we should come up with some sort of basic media release that we can send out to other sites to get some publicity. --Azizlight 12:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Good idea! I'd want it to look/sound as professional as possible.  Anyone around here with writing/publishing experience that could help out?  WhiteBoy 15:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Attendance

 * 1) WhiteBoy 23:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) --MarcK [talk] 05:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) I should actually be able to make this one! – Aidje talk 09:26, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) *I'll believe that when I see it! ;)  WhiteBoy 13:56, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) **I just now had this awful feeling that I had forgotten about it. I'm putting it in my Palm now so my mind can be at ease. :-) – Aidje talk 02:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) I've been getting Tuesdays off lately, but with my luck, watch next week be the week they assign me to work. =Þ Anyway, I'll be there if I'm assigned the day off. StarNeptune 13:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Not sure if I'll be able to make this one for two reasons: one, it's midterms week so I'll no doubt have a lot on my platter; two, I've never been able to get IRC to work for me before. But if neither of those things is an issue, I'll be there. Kuralyov 03:22, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) *Can't help with the first one :), but re: the second one, the WikiCities web interface is pretty fool-proof. No software to load or anything.  That may be the option for you.  WhiteBoy 06:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) I'll try to make this one if I'm not working. For the record, what I meant by focusing on particular works was that once we had an author on board, we could tailor the discussion to certain aspects of their work where, for the purposes of the wiki, further author insight would be helpful. On top of that, I'd imagine that all chats should be added as a subsection of the individual's article (Karen Traviss/Open-Source Debate or some such). As these kinds of chats/interviews are going on all the time, I think the main goal here should be to utilize the VIPs' involvement in a way that's as beneficial to the wiki as possible; as opposed to, you know, "what's Abel Pena's favorite film character?" CooperTFN 07:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) *Upon reflection, one obvious use would be to press for biographical info for their personal articles. I mean, look at Chad Barbry and Steven Greenwood. CooperTFN 07:48, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Apologies

 * 1) QuentinGeorge 07:51, 23 February 2006 (UTC) - This is midday on a Wednesday for me - and I'm at work. Sorry. :)
 * 2) Azizlight 12:58, 23 February 2006 (UTC) Same reason as Quentin.

Meeting transcripts

 * January 7, 2006
 * January 16, 2006
 * February 2, 2006

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

It was decided last at the last meeting that we would try using IRC at the next meeting. Please list any IRC chat clients that you have used and could help someone with if necessary.

Windows

 * mIRC is the classic Windows IRC client, and the one I'm most familiar with. Main drawbacks of mIRC are the fact that it's not free and that the configuration options are waaay more extensive than a lot of users are used to. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  23:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Trillian handles IRC. It's a little complicated to set up, but if you don't want to use the very easy CGI:IRC linked by Angela below, then Trillian is handy program to have anyway for the other things it does. jSarek 02:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Linux

 * Tested it with Gaim WhiteBoy 21:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Web browser

 * I use ChatZilla, an extension for Mozilla Firefox. WhiteBoy 22:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikicities has a CGI:IRC gateway for the #wookieepedia channel at irc.wikicities.com/starwars that lets you join the chat room from a normal web page. Just put in your username and choose "#wookieepedia" from the drop-down list.