KHWiki:Roundtable

Roundtables are meetings held on the #KHWiki-noticeboard IRC channel every 1st Saturday of the month at <span class="explain" title="Wiki Time is UTC: UTC ± 0 • NDT:  UTC - 2.5 • ADT:  UTC - 3 • NST:  UTC - 3.5 • AST:  UTC - 4 • EDT:  UTC - 4 •   CDT:  UTC - 5 • EST:  UTC - 5 •  CST:  UTC - 6 •  MDT:  UTC - 6 •  MST:  UTC - 7 •  PDT:  UTC - 7 •  AKDT:  UTC - 8 • PST:  UTC - 8 •  AKST:  UTC - 9 •  ADT:  UTC - 9 •  HAST:  UTC - 10 •    CXT:  UTC + 7 •  AWST:  UTC + 8 •  AWDT:  UTC + 9 •  ACST:  UTC + 9.5 •  AEST:  UTC + 10 •  ACDT:  UTC + 10.5 •  AEDT:  UTC + 11 •  NFT:  UTC + 11.5 •  GMT:  UTC ± 0 •  WET:  UTC ± 0 •  BST:  UTC + 1 •  CET:  UTC + 1 •  IST:  UTC + 1 •  WEDT / WEST:  UTC + 1 •  CEDT / CEST:  UTC + 2 •  EET:  UTC + 2 •  EEDT / EEST:  UTC + 3 •  MSK:  UTC + 3 •  MSD:  UTC + 4  ">9:00pm Wiki Time (UTC 0)  (if the meeting is cancelled, or cannot be held due to an inadequate amount of staff, the meeting will be moved to the second Saturday of the month, at 9:00pm Wiki Time). These meetings are to discuss the current situation and the future of our Wiki. Any user is invited to the meetings. If you have any questions, or want to point out a problem about the wiki, you can come and be listened to. Below are the logs and summaries for the meetings already held:

Meeting 1, March 05, 2011 Summary

 * Copyleft - copying/pasting from khwiki.net -> khwikia must have permission from this wiki.
 * Old wiki will link back to the new wiki.
 * Affiliates should link to the new wiki.
 * No affiliation to the old wikia
 * Monaco is needed
 * A small group of users should keep the community portal/Traverse Town updated
 * Heartless Manufactury is a go.

Meeting 2, March 06, 2011 Summary

 * Images auditing should be done as following:
 * 1)  template for fanart images and duplicated images.
 * 2)  template for images that don't follow the naming standards.
 * 3)  template for non-.png or non-animated.gif images.
 * Article auditing should be as the following:
 * 1) Compare articles from both wikis by coping & pasting the Wikia article to the Wiki one and clicking "Show Changes"
 * 2) If any change is spotted, they should be added in selectively based on what looks appropriate.
 * @KHWiki Twitter, KHWiki Facebook, Photobucket Account and YouTube Channel belongs to this Wiki and not Wikia's.
 * The staff in charge of each of these sites should be listed on the wiki's Staff page.
 * All wiki staff should make sure to idle on the IRC noticeboard while online.
 * KHWiki:Mirage Arena is open again.

Meeting 3, April 09, 2011 Summary

 * Featured Article - Dragoon
 * Card articles;
 * 1) Card: space will not be deleted, consolidated, or added into mainspace.
 * Heartless Manufactory;
 * 1) Its purpose is to get users with issues with each other to work together so that they understand the other users are indeed useful.
 * 2) Serious disputes or arguments impacting the wiki (edit wars) - staff get involved
 * 3) Less serious - staff involvement optional.
 * Auditing progress
 * 1) Cardspace not needed
 * 2) Userspace not needed
 * 3) Mainspace almost done
 * 4) Imagespace still needs work
 * 5) Somebody really needs to check the progress and see what still needs to be done
 * Avatar Menu
 * DTN, ENX, and ShardofTruth - Scratch Cards
 * Monaco needs to be the default skin

Meeting 4, May 07, 2011 Summary

 * Featured Media
 * Nominated media may not have a watermark
 * Featured Media will now be changed more than once a month, every ten days.
 * The audit still has a long way to go before completion. Work on the imagespace needs to be stepped up, and work on the mainspace must continue as usual.
 * Users who do not contribute much in the Heartless Manufactory task given to them will not have their warning removed until they do legitimate work.
 * Users may begin working on ideas for redesigning the main page.
 * All off- site accounts must be used for official wiki business.
 * Walkthough: space will be created.
 * Wiki sponsered walkthoughs
 * Sorted by world.
 * Competent users who are on the social IRC channel must also be on the noticeboard, and should not ignore those asking for help.
 * Decisions made during non- official IRC meetings need to be made public on the wiki before they can take effect.

Meeting 5, June 04, 2011 Summary

 * Trinity Archives: Trinity Archives to include information of recent game announcements and important wiki happenings.
 * Offsite links:DeviantART removed of offsite accounts, Youtube used for guides and boss battles, Photobucket to hold offsite images, Twitter to work as similar to Trinity Archives and Facebook to send out messages to users easily.
 * Image renovation: Image conversion taken on as part of the forum.
 * Roundtable decisions: Decisions on roundtables happen as soon as possible.
 * Plans after audit: Cleanup and image renovation.
 * "Thank You" Template made and posted on each user's userpage.
 * Mirage Arena: Ownership of Mirage Arena handed to LapisScarab and Erry.

Meeting 6, August 07, 2011 Summary

 * Savings on the wiki: File saves will be uploaded to filesharing sites and linked to under userspace.
 * Featured Media methoding and ties: Featured media will include both tied files, using and parameters.
 * SEIWA progress: SEIWA meetings will be held to hold such issues as this.
 * Logging will be done by Sapharus if she is present, otherwise by any other person. Summarizing will be done by Erry.
 * Walkthroughs: Issue moved to Forum as there is a possibility of hosting it off-wiki.
 * IRC rules: Unsettled, to be discussed later.
 * Status on image renovation: The filespace needs a large amount of work, mainly on moving pages to their correct names, purging jpgs, and transpareticisng.
 * Orphaned pages: Database problem, may need Porple's help. Apart from that, work is to be started on that.
 * Unadmining of members and new group for delete/move rights: Neumannz will contact Kryten for new group.
 * Moving roundtable to a new date: New forum thread to be made to make final forum decision.

Meeting 7, September 03, 2011 Summary

 * Staff member activity: Members contacted about inactivity.
 * Walkthrough images: Images will be allowed under Category:Walkthrough Images, however this it not to be abused.
 * Walkthrough status: Currently awaiting format discussion at Forum:Walkthrough Format, after that is done we can start walkthrough space.
 * New forum for data: Admin needs to create forum and then a layout for requests and putting out information.
 * Image renovation: Still lots of images that need to converted, project page made to hold list of images.
 * GrandPyromania: Contacted via KHWiki Youtube channel, awaiting response.
 * ErryK as OP: Pending conclusion, awaiting DoorToNothing's response.
 * Backup list of articles to be featured: Many articles need to be edited to qualify, Clean up of the Month being removed to allow for Main Page suggestions.

== Meeting 8, October 08, 2011 Summary ==
 * ErryK, yet again, not being reopped until further rethought opinions of community.
 * Redlinks will be changed gradually when we end up reaching them.
 * End-of-year ideas to be discussed by the staff at a later date.
 * Agreement between Keyhole and Kingdom Hearts Wiki will be written at a later date when all people involved are present.
 * Main Page renovation will be discussed in this forum.
 * DoorToNothing will consult Kryten about videos in the Walkthrough namespace.

Meeting 9, November 05, 2011 Summary

 * Plan for walkthrough pages is within logs, walkthrough-only images will be made for multi-character boss battles.
 * ErryK to be reopped before community decision, however deopped if community requests he be deopped.
 * Kryten or Neumannz to be given founder status on IRC channels.

Meeting 10, May 05, 2012 Summary

 * Talk of Operation Super Merge will tell is whether we continue or stop it entirely, depending on the views of the community.
 * Affiliates have been taken into consideration in to further our connections and to add to our traffic.
 * The situation with the Wikia wiki will be kept as is.
 * The IRC channels will be kept as is until the purge by freenode occurs, in that case we will go under the channel #seiwa-KHWiki and a temporary channel will be made for roundtables or any other wiki matters.
 * A namespace for Form: will be made to take care the current situation with the form pages, such as Form: The Grid to compliment the Data Forms included in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.

Meeting 11, July 21, 2012 Summary

 * List of differences will be made on a separate page using the suite template.
 * Maps will be included on a separate page using the suite template.
 * The abbreviations featured in Dream Drop Distance will be used.
 * And the KHWiki shall not merge with the TWEWY Wiki as they are similar to the Final Fantasy cameos.

Meeting 12, September 01, 2012 Summary

 * A new page, Image Requests will be added to the wiki allowing people to have certain images made transparent, find higher quality versions or replaced with new ones.
 * TWEWY is not canon with KH3D.
 * Form: will merge back into the world page in an appearance section, Form: will stay.

Meeting 13, October 06, 2012 Summary

 * Regarding the timeline, it is being revised on the talk page, however a few things here and there are missing but it should be based off the ingame journals and minimal info from the scripts.
 * For the time being,TWEWY is not canon, similar to the Final Fantasy characters. Shibuya exists within the Kingdom Hearts universe but is not the same Shibuya, as in alternate universe. However Nomura makes the final decision.
 * World articles will be splitted into two pages, one with the story and descriptions, another with treasures, portals, trinities, etc.
 * The Kingdom Hearts (series) page has no depth on 358/2 Days, so it should be added.
 * The templates will all be changed to say "Antagonist" instead of "Villain", due to the controversy between the definition of the latter.
 * A Keyblade War will not be held this year, as it is simply too late for any organized event, next year however, is possible.
 * Things such as LGBTQ, religion, politics and the like can be discussed as long as no insults are thrown. You can casually talk about something as long as nothing is in offense. Additionally, we discourage the act of pushing your beliefs onto others.
 * The parsers used in links, page names and templates are located on the Image Policy page.
 * Nothing has been said on SEIWA, so that issue will be moved to the next month by default.
 * A forum will be made regarding the merge with The Keyhole, as the site lacks the users to continue their side of the merge. The forum will be seeking people who can help on the other side.

Meeting 14, November 10, 2012 Summary

 * SEIWA is currently in the works of adding a new Wiki to the alliance, anyone wishing to help with this may contact Erry.
 * Pages for Tetsuya Nomura, Yoko Shimomura, Takeharu Ishimoto, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Utada Hikaru, Shiro Amano and List of VA's will be made, and a collective "Square Enix" page detailing the company.
 * Staff cleanup moved to next month.
 * Twitter account requires an extra hand due to it being run by a single member. Youtube will remain on standby until a user offers their services to record, Erry is saving up to buy a 3DS capture card to record KH3D gameplay.
 * All old form pages to be deleted immediately.
 * End of Year Event sign-up closed, volunteers contacted to add info and list of goals being made. Further info will be available on the 15th.

Meeting 15, December 08, 2012 Agenda
''Any user can add to the agenda to be covered at the next meeting. Whether you are present at the meeting or not, the resulting discussion highlights will be included in the summary.''
 * Staff cleanup. 19:04, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Userboxes: what stays and what goes? 20:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Revamp on the rules for the Featured Articles and Featured Media. We've hit an all low record for December for FM, with only two nominations (both nominated by myself; for Christmas and the second anniversery of Tron: Legacy). Should we update the rules? 04:51, 2 December 2012 (UTC)