Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26896471-20151004010902/@comment-4984687-20151008071934

Cheatcodechamp wrote: Moving it back or forward four+ hours would do more harm then good. We either lose our wikis staff involvement or make it impossible for anybody outside the US, neither of these is acceptable. As the moot handle items on the wiki, however small, we cant get everybody, so we should focus on trying to get as many editors as possible who are involved in the wikis "politics" and maintenance. One of the reasons the current time was picked was because those involved the most where able to make that time, losing their involvement would undermine much of what the wiki and the moot are able to do.

The current time, give or take an hour, is really one of the best times we could do it. It gives most of our staff a chance to be involved, and a fair amount of the community. We also have less risk to it effecting peoples work and school, as it takes place Saturday night/early Sunday.

For those who want to be involved, but the time is an issue, we can, and should make sure the moot is handled smoothly and quickly. Things like the recent change to the featured image (and soon to be weekly quote) give us a better window to handle and discuss more important items. Getting people to schedule, and write in advance their items of importance would prepare the presenter and make things go smoother.

Is this a perfect fix, no, but we can limit the time the moot takes place, meaning those who are up later sacrifice a little less painful on them the next day.

As for the idea about two moots, it would simply be to much of a hassle, impossible if we wanted them discussing the same items, as odds are the presenters would be unable to be at both. We would also have to keep two logs, mash votes together, and would be taking more time up in the public chat for our meetings, hurting and excluding those who are not involved in the wiki like that.

I know we can't cater to every user, but we should cater to the largest group of users. The current timezone is biased to the Americas, and as Sajuuk said, it starts at 12:00 AM for him which is very late.

The default timezone should be UTC−02:00. It covers only a few islands in the Atlantic ocean, but it is a better compromise because it is located between North America and Europe.