Harry Potter Wiki talk:Community Portal/Group discussions/First discussion

All right, so! Is everybody present? 21:54, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Currently, but I may be delayed in responding to anything. Hermione1980 21:56, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Righto, so perhaps we better choose a better method of communication. Rainer suggested IRC, but it doesn'T work with me, 'mafraid. Any suggestions?    21:57, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Are we the only users here? I swear I invited more than one, at least.    21:58, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * It's only just now 22:00, give 'em a minute. IRC? Que es IRC? I don't know of any other methods of communication, sorry. Hermione1980 22:00, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, it's been 10 minutes already. IRC is a form of chatting, and makes use of a special server to do that. Wikipedia uses it, but I don't know how the heck they do it. Maybe we should start now, don't you think so? 22:13, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, Lord Voldemort has an account on Wikipedia and appears to have been active recently... I could leave him a message over there and ask if he plans to participate here. Other than that, yeah, I guess, go ahead and start. Hermione1980 22:15, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Or, rather, he was active about this time yesterday. (note to self: check dates more carefully) Hermione1980 22:17, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I saw, anyway I posted him a telegram right now just to be sure...    22:20, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)

So, let's start. In the name of the High Admins, Wikilaw, and of course, GOD, I hereby formally start the first group discussion for the (bla bla bla) HP Wikicity. Now let's skip the formalities and get straight to the point. ;)    22:20, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * Points:
 * Logo
 * Publicity
 * Approach to cleanup and article construction
 * Copyright/left
 * Et cetera...


 * First of all, let's talk about the logo (the picture at upper left). The logo we have right now is quite lame, nothing compared to the Star Wars Wiki logo or the German HPWiki logo . This problem has gone unanswered for the past few days, and it's quite hard to attract editors if the first thing they see is something uninteresting. Rainer has posted some choices up there. Any suggestions?     22:24, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * Aw, you don't like our current logo? I do. Of Rainer's suggestions, I like the one from the Chamber of Secrets poster best.
 * As for publicity, do you mean posting about this on other websites or something?
 * Clarify the cleanup question please...
 * GFDL works for me, but IANAL so I don't really know anything.
 * Hermione1980 22:27, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * I was thinking of something more unique and catchy - lots of colors, maybe. You?
 * Yees, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (HWMNB) mentioned something about publicizing the Wiki on Mugglenet et al. Should we do this immediately, or wait until the article count reaches 150 or 200 or something like that? I'd prefer waiting and contributing because if we let them in too soon, we'll have a hard time driving out the vandals and trolls and bad spellers - and cleaning up after their mess is tedious, too. (P.S. Today, we had our first vandal on the main page! Too bad his spoiler didn't show up.) The good thing is that we could have more well-meaning editors to help us with cleanup (see below).
 * Cleanup means (see above). It also means inserting missing pictures, missing articles, expanding stubs, checking dates, spelling, punctuation, repairing broken links, templates, etc. All these things fall under cleanup, and if we have more editors, it follows that we'll get the job done in half the time or less. I think this Wiki is destined for greatness. Really. :)
 * Perhaps we should edit our copied articles a little to give a more Wikicity flavor, eh?
 * 22:35, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we should postpone this for a more ... convenient time and date. It's not very comfortable talking to a gathering of mute ghosts. So much for organized editing. I guess some ideas really don't get accepted until after their time.    22:48, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I got caught up with something else. Really, there's not much two, three, four regular editors &mdash; whatever we have right now &mdash; can do. Why don't we send a message to all the registered contributors and find out when a more convenient time is for them? Hermione1980 23:24, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)

I guess we should. In the meantime, I listed our tasks here, using same layout as WikiProject Harry Potter page. You can sign up as regular contributor. Anyway, if no one else is coming, ciao, arrivederci, tschüs, goodbye (where did you say you were from again?). Till next meeting -    23:37, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm from the American South, so "bye" will work. :-) See you later. Hermione1980 00:04, 31 Jul 2005 (UTC)