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

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:

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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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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:

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.