Another #wikibooks meeting: April 09, 2009 21:00 UTC

Discussion:

Mike.lifeguard

2009-04-04 22:28:55 UTC

From the feedback regarding Wikibooks' last meeting, it was

generally felt to be worthwhile, so I'd like to have another
meeting on Thursday April 9 at 21:00UTC. That's 5PM in
Philidelphia, for example.
Once again, I've started a section on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/Community-building for
this session with 2 topics to discuss: changing FlaggedRevs
configuration and coordinating feedback about Collections.
Hopefully people will be able to make it, especially those who
couldn't last time. We'll be meeting in #wikibooks on
irc.freenode.net as usual. Anyone who's interested can come -
listen, participate, whatever!
See you there
-Mike
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Andrew Whitworth

2009-04-06 16:42:42 UTC

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Excellent job organizing this, Mike. I can make it at 21:00 UTC,
although I might be a little bit late. I hope lots of other people can
make it too, since it's at a different time.

--Andrew Whitworth

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mike.lifeguard

From the feedback regarding Wikibooks' last meeting, it was
generally felt to be worthwhile, so I'd like to have another
meeting on Thursday April 9 at 21:00UTC. That's 5PM in
Philidelphia, for example.
Once again, I've started a section on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/Community-building for
this session with 2 topics to discuss: changing FlaggedRevs
configuration and coordinating feedback about Collections.
Hopefully people will be able to make it, especially those who
couldn't last time. We'll be meeting in #wikibooks on
irc.freenode.net as usual. Anyone who's interested can come -
listen, participate, whatever!
See you there
-Mike
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Andrew Whitworth

2009-04-06 18:35:59 UTC

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Quick point to add now that I've seen the things written in the
agenda: At the last meeting, attendees were from many language
projects, not just EN. So talking about any issues that are EN-only
(flagged revs configuration changes, collections extension
configuration changes, subjects and book categorization, etc) is a bad
idea. At least, it's bad if the meeting is the same as it was last
time. Two suggestions:

1) Keep the agenda the same, but make it clear that this upcoming
meeting is specific to en-wikibooks only. Or,
2) Keep the meeting multilingual, which means we need to change the
agenda to be more generic and less en-specific.

Which would people prefer? Notice that the two options aren't really
exclusive: We can have meetings of both types. Unfortunately, we can't
mix them in the same meeting. If we want both, we can schedule
multiple meetings.

Thoughts?

--Andrew Whitworth

Post by Andrew Whitworth
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mike.lifeguard

Mike.lifeguard

2009-04-06 18:53:54 UTC

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If the group that turns up is multilingual we can discuss things from
that perspective. If not, we can talk about things from an enwikibooks
perspective - I don't see any need to worry about it. I doubt we're
going to run out of topics to discuss either way & that page is really
only for putting down ideas. I'm comfortable being quite freeform about
it. If you're concerned then maybe add some specifically multilingual
ideas to the page?

-Mike

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:35 -0400, "Andrew Whitworth"

Post by Andrew Whitworth
Quick point to add now that I've seen the things written in the
agenda: At the last meeting, attendees were from many language
projects, not just EN. So talking about any issues that are EN-only
(flagged revs configuration changes, collections extension
configuration changes, subjects and book categorization, etc) is a bad
idea. At least, it's bad if the meeting is the same as it was last
1) Keep the agenda the same, but make it clear that this upcoming
meeting is specific to en-wikibooks only. Or,
2) Keep the meeting multilingual, which means we need to change the
agenda to be more generic and less en-specific.
Which would people prefer? Notice that the two options aren't really
exclusive: We can have meetings of both types. Unfortunately, we can't
mix them in the same meeting. If we want both, we can schedule
multiple meetings.
Thoughts?
--Andrew Whitworth

Post by Andrew Whitworth
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mike.lifeguard

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Andrew Whitworth

2009-04-06 19:07:09 UTC

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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Mike.lifeguard

Post by Mike.lifeguard
If the group that turns up is multilingual we can discuss things from
that perspective. If not, we can talk about things from an enwikibooks
perspective - I don't see any need to worry about it. I doubt we're
going to run out of topics to discuss either way & that page is really
only for putting down ideas. I'm comfortable being quite freeform about
it. If you're concerned then maybe add some specifically multilingual
ideas to the page?

I just want to make sure that our agenda and our audience are not
completely disjoint. I'm also in favor of having multiple meetings
that are more specific, although it may be too early still to be
picking and choosing who goes to what. Having an "English Wikibooks
Community Meeting" is a really good idea too, along with the more
general multilingual community meeting like we had last time. Both are
good to have, but it's important to remember that they are not the
same meeting and can't really be mixed. Assuming meetings become a
regular occurance (and I hope this is the case!) In the future I think
we need to be more specific about what the meetings will be and what
they will cover. Again, just to keep in mind for the future.

--Andrew Whitworth.

Mike.lifeguard

2009-04-04 22:28:55 UTC

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From the feedback regarding Wikibooks' last meeting, it was

Andrew Whitworth

2009-04-06 16:42:42 UTC

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