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Logs, summary and follow-ups from the First WikiChat on June 13 - June 14, 2012
Hi everyone,
(note: all of the links will direct you to the Guild Wars 2 wiki)
Now that the first WikiChat is over, I'd first like to point everyone to the logs from the 3 chat sessions:
- gw2:User:Dr_ishmael/IRC_wikichat_20120613a
- gw2:User:Dr_ishmael/IRC_wikichat_20120613b
- gw2:User:Dr_ishmael/IRC_wikichat_20120613c
I've got a few action items that I need to process as soon as I can. My overall conclusions about the 5 topics on the agenda are: - ITEM1: we (ArenaNet) needs to follow up on these requests; - ITEM2: no questions/issues, a draft of the legal text under the edit box will be circulated; - ITEM3: everyone very happy (some follow up questions about font, currently under discussion); - ITEM4: we agreed to start discussing this (see link below); - ITEM5: I think there was not strong support for this, it's definitely a low priority request (see follow-up link below).
Two follow-up discussions were created, please free to participate (after having read the chat logs):
- gw2:Talk:List_of_fansites#ArenaNet.27s_input
- gw2:Guild_Wars_2_Wiki_talk:Community_portal#GW2W_for_mobile
Overall the WikiChat is definitely something that I'd like to do again. I may propose only two sesions (morning, afternoon, PDT times) if the idea works for most of the people. I'd also like to try something different from IRC next time to see whether more people can show up (I don't think that the relatively low number of participants was a bad thing).
Feel free to leave your questions or comments on the talkpage. Thanks again to everyone who participated in this first WikiChat.
First WikiChat on June 13 - June 7, 2012
Hello everyone,
Now that the one-week discussion period on my previous news is over, I'd like to propose that move ahead with the first "WikiChat".
1) Date and time
We'll meet on Wednesday 13 June and will have 3 discussions, all on the same agenda so that everyone has an opportunity to comment (whatever the time zone). The first 30 minutes of each discussion is for the Guild Wars Wiki community, the next 30 minutes are for the Guild Wars 2 Wiki community.
Times are:
- 10AM - 11AM PDT (19h - 20h CEST)
- 1PM - 2PM PDT (22h - 23h CEST)
- 5PM - 6PM PDT (2h - 3h CEST, next day)
2) IRC instructions
The discussions will take place on the #gw2wMeetings channel on the Gamesurge IRC server. It's actually very easy to log in from any browser, just go to this page: http://webchat.gamesurge.net/
You could just type in a Nickname and enter "gw2wMeetings" in the "Channels" field, then type on the "Connect" button to be in the chat room. However your host name will be used to display information about you and I strongly advise against you doing this. The alternative is simply to create an account on the gamesurge server, please see instructions below (I'll advise you to do this well in advance): https://gamesurge.net/newuser/
We can always discuss details of this on my talkpage. If people think that it's too much trouble for a WikiChat, I can try to work on simpler alternative. And if this does not work, we could always try to do this on a wikipage. (but feedback from my initial news seemed to indicate that IRC was ok)
3) Agenda
This agenda is assymetrical, leaning more towards the activities on the GW2 Wiki, but this will give more time to discuss those on the Guild Wars Wiki.
- ITEM1: Status of administrative requests
See Guild_Wars_Wiki:Requests_for_technical_administration and gw2:Guild_Wars_2_Wiki:Requests_for_technical_administration
- ITEM2: About the few legal questions that were asked
See Feedback_talk:Stephane_Lo_Presti#Copyrights, gw2:Guild_Wars_2_Wiki_talk:Community_portal#Copyright_text and gw2:User_talk:Stephane_Lo_Presti#Non-English_wiki_support.3F
- ITEM3: GW2 Wiki interface redesign
See gw2:Talk:Main_Page/editcopy#Implemented
- ITEM4: List of fansites
The current list of GW2 gw2:Fansites has been trimmed down but I'd like to discuss the possibility to take a new route, which would include us linking to this list from our sites.
- ITEM5: Mobile version of our wikis
Someone mentioned installing an extension to make the wiki easier to access from mobile/smartphones and I'd like to assess whether: 1) there's a lot of people interested; and 2) there are major arguments AGAINST it. (This is by the way not an acknowledgement that we'll be doing that or that we're working on related projects, please no second-guessing ^^)
4) Let me know if you have questions, comments or suggestions!
Thanks and I hope that the WikiChat will be the great opportunity to talk to you "face to face"!
(also, wishing you a great Beta Weekend Event 2 if you're playing ^^)
Meeting with the wiki community - May 31, 2012
Hello everyone,
Now that we released the brand new German and French wikis, I'd like to spend some time with the GW and GW2 wiki community. I'd like to propose that we meet on an IRC channel for a quick chat about the few important topics I've got on my list (status of administrative requests, a few legal questions that were asked, interface redesign, etc.). I'd prefer to use this method rather than set up a page and have a long discussion so as to keep the focus on the topics at hand and simplify the process of decision making.
The basic format of the chat I'm proposing is the following: have 3 discussions at 9:30AM PDT (18h30 CEST), 1PM PDT (22h CEST) and 5PM PDT (2h CEST, next day), ideally on a Wednesday (June 13 if possible). This would happen on an IRC channel I've reserved for the occasion and I'd give precise details on how to do this. Note that this would not require any special program, it'd use this website. I'm thinking of inviting both wikis to these discussions, let me know if separate meetings make more sense.
Since it's a first, I'm going to give the community a week to discuss this idea on my talkpage. Take it as if it was a wiki page: everything can be edited in this proposal, well almost since we still need to make this happen, one way or another. ^^ Feel free to contribute constructively to the discussion here:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback_talk:Stephane_Lo_Presti#Meeting_with_the_wiki_community
Thanks and I hope to get in touch with many of you soon! Stéphane
Content of the GuildWars.com websites - March 12, 2012
Hi everyone,
We've just announced the launch of the redesigned guildwars.com website.
We'd like you to know that much of the old content on all versions of the GuildWars.com websites (that is: www/eu/de/fr/es/it.guildwars.com) will be deleted once the new website is launched by the end of March.
We thought we’d give the wiki community some advance notice regarding the retirement of this legacy content so that those who are interested have the opportunity to archive the material if they wish.
Thanks.
Happy New Year 2012
Hello to all the wiki-ers, Whether you're from GWW or GW2W,
I'd like to wish you a very happy New Year. I hope we can continue to do excellent work together!
Thanks for being fantastic fans and growing (or shrinking ;) the wikis every day.
Stéphane.
Summary of the Community Open House by Tanetris - Monday, July 18, 2011
Tanetris wrote a very nice and personal summary of his experience at the Community Open House, don't miss the chance to read it now ^^
Tanetris' Community Open House experience
Network maintenance on Thursday July 7 2011 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011
On Thursday July 7 2011, we're going to conduct a network maintenance at 5 AM PDT (7 AM CDT / 8 AM EDT / 12 PM GMT). We expect the work to take up to 2 hours. Guild Wars, the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 website and wikis could be affected by the maintenance, including possible disconnections and login errors from the game.
- Start time: Thursday July 7 2011, 5:00 am PDT (7 AM CDT / 8 AM EDT / 12 PM GMT)
- End time: Thursday July 7 2011, 7:00 am PDT (9 AM CDT / 10 AM EDT / 2 PM GMT)
- Impact Duration: Two hours, intermittent
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
Guild Wars Wikis and the Guild Wars Support Forums - Monday, June 20, 2011
Hi everyone,
With now the Guild Wars Support Forums officially announced, I would like to talk about a few related topics. There are a few pages on the Guild Wars Wiki that are or may now be irrelevant because of our rolling out of the Guild Wars Support Forums. For some pages, we've got a clear idea of what should happen and will propose several actions to the wiki community, while for some it's up to the wiki community to ultimately decide what will happen. So here's the list:
- The Feedback rules
The sections on "Support" and "Bug report" should be modified to reflect the changes below. [1]
- Bugs on the Feedback portal
All the bug pages should progressively be closed, in favor of the Game Bugs sub-forum on the Guild Wars Support Forums, with the exception of the Localization bugs (see below). The current list of bugs should stay on the wiki and not be migrated to the Guild Wars Support Forums. [2]
- Game Suggestions and Localization bugs
These pages of the Feedback portal should stay as they are on the wiki.
- Gaile Gray’s support pages
Gaile Gray is our Support Liaison at ArenaNet and maintains two wikipages: Support FAQ and Support issues. She will modify these pages, when appropriate, to point to the relevant parts of the Guild Wars Support Forums.
- Ask an account question and Game-content questions
For these pages, it's up to the wiki community to decide whether you want to keep the pages, or redirect to the Guild Wars Support Forums (possibly summarising the existing content in a FAQ). [3]
- GWW Bugs and GW2W Bugs
These will stay on the respective wikis and I'll continue to monitor them. However we will encourage people to report any significant wiki-related problem on the Guild Wars Support Forums, e.g., the wikis being down or not working.
- We're also proposing to add a new Suggestions page on the wiki about the Guild Wars Support Forums. [4]
Feel free to post your feedback on these various points on my talkpage, or let me know if I forgot anything. I'm going to be in touch with the wiki community to plan our next moves on actions [1], [2], [3] and [4]. Thanks!
Wiki maintenance window, no downtime expected - Tuesday, June 14, 2011
On Wednesday June 15th 2011, we're going to upgrade the DPL extension to a recent version on the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 wikis at 8 AM PDT (10 AM CDT / 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT), to fix the problems caused by the recent MediaWiki update. This maintenance shouldn't cause any major downtime but we'll be monitoring the situation closely.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Wiki maintenance - Monday, June 6, 2011
On Tuesday June 7th 2011, we're going to run a scheduled maintenance on the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 wikis at 8 AM PDT (10 AM CDT / 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT). This maintenance should run for about 1 hour.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
Wiki maintenance - Friday, May 27, 2011
On Tuesday May 31st 2011, we're going to run a scheduled maintenance on the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 wikis to update the MediaWiki software, starting at 8:00 AM PDT (3:00 PM GMT). The estimated downtime is approximately two hours. During this time, the wikis will not be available.
We'll upgrade MediaWiki to version 1.16.5, install the ReCaptcha extension, put a new logo on the Guild Wars 2 wiki, plus a few other tweaks.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
Call for opinions on four topics - Tuesday, April 19, 2011
There are 4 topics that I'd like to discuss with the wiki community (I use "wiki community" to point to the users of both wikis, although I'm using GWW to host my page solely because it's easier for me to manage). So here are some links of where the action is:
- topic 1: A new logo for GW2W, although we should be close to finished with this one;
- topic 2: A new background picture for GW2W;
- topic 3: Reorganizing the feedback space, I'm reading through this and will soon attempt to push for a consensus;
- topic 4: as a subtopic of topic 3, I'd like to ask whether (and, if so, how) we should move the GW2 Game suggestions from GWW to GW2W. UPDATE: this topic is probably on hold until a later date as it looks like there are deeper issues (technical, license) underneath.
Feel free to contribute on the relevant discussions and propose how to move forward each of these 4 topics.
Thanks and ttys!
Wiki maintenance - POSTPONED - Thursday, April 13, 2011
UPDATE: Ok, it seems that our asura technicians found a cog in the machine that requires further work. So the maintenance announced below is postponed to a later date, which we'll announce here, on the wikis and on the MOTD.
On Thursday April 14th 2011, we're going to run a scheduled maintenance on the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 wikis to update the MediaWiki software, starting at 8:00 AM PST (3:00 PM GMT). The estimated downtime is approximately three hours. During this time, the wikis will not be available.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
New Role on the wiki - Thursday, February 24, 2011
Hello everyone ^^
I am happy to inform you that, from now on, I'll be monitoring the wiki-related requests of the wiki community and relaying them to the studio, and in particular to the technical team handling the wiki. My focus will be on the technical requests which concern administrative elements of the wiki, as well as general availability and performance of the wiki. I'll use the relevant wiki pages to assess the situation, and in particular the page on wiki bugs that you can edit to report these kinds of issues.
However I will not take care of game-related requests. It doesn't mean that I won't from time to time participate to discussions, but it's not going to be my main focus. Here are a few links with regard to game-related issues which you should primarily use, if you don't already know them:
- The Support page of the Guild Wars website contains all the main links, including how to contact our Support team;
- To report feedback about various aspects of the game, including Support Issues, please use the relevant section of the feedback portal;
- Last, but not the least, you can talk to other fans on one of the Guild Wars fansites, see this list.
One important thing to note: as French Community Manager, I maintain some pages in French (and they're labeled accordingly). I'll kindly ask all the players to talk on the the labeled pages in the relevant language, so that everyone can talk in only one language.
As a first "visible" modification to wiki, I'll ask that the Guild Wars 2 logo on the GW2 wiki is updated with the correct picture. ^^ I'm also talking to our team about the technical administration.
Thanks a lot to all the wiki contributors who meticulously collect data about our games day-in and day-out to build this comprehensive wiki for all to use. We really value your contributions to our games and wish to establish a strong relationship with this part of the Guild Wars community!
Cheers,
Stephane Lo Presti talk 23:59, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
