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2004 January 26

gray: Any chance of an updated SLSnapshot? Browsing on my phone via GPRS can get a tad expensive. :-) ...or perhaps just an updated .sql dump of the Wiki database ?

2004 January 24

dieter: So, another few WME's on my account. I'm more in an encyclopaedial mood nowadays. If people prefer the discussion look, you may restore what was there.

mAsterdam: No they don't.

mAsterdam: Yes they do.

mAsterdam: I heard from a dan player that most do.

mAsterdam: Sorry, couldn't resist. Excellent job, Dieter :-)

2004 January 21

amc: quick suggestion: can people who wish to send a message to a specific person (like Tamsin below), include the person name int he "short summary" field? this would, IMO, improve this page a whole lot.

Tamsin: Hi Dieter! Have you seen my e-mail messages to you? I would love to hear from you.

BobMyers: How does renaming pages work? The system won't let me do it. I want the PronounciationOfGoTerms? page renamed to the correct spelling: PronunciationOfGoTerms.

dieter: done. AFAI'mC, more people can be librarian. Meanwhile I'll open a page Page Name Change Requests.

As long as I'm in spelling mode, on the User Preferences page, the word "persistent" is incorrectly spelled "persistant" in at least two places.

unkx80: Only "librarians" (and administrators) may rename pages.

2004 January 16

Tamsin: Hi Dieter! Have you seen my e-mail messages to you? I would love to hear from you.

2004 January 12

kritz I am looking for an online forum to let my kids (under 10 yrs) play online. Although I generally play on KGS, there are few children online. Does anyone have any pointers to a child friendly Go location? It think it would help get kids interested...

Zarlan: Nice idea, but why only american kids?

kritz : I plead guilty... I was thinking of trying to leverage Hikaru's entrance into the US as a way to jump start Go in the US. My daughter was online this weekend. I found an opponent in Finland and another in Japan. This got her really excited. Both in their late teens. This was better than adults, but still not the same as under 10yr old kids.

dnerra: Unless someone comes up with a with an existing place, why not start a kids' room in KGS? Maybe it will take off after a while. Anyway, whatever you try to get American kids' interested, I wish you good luck. Here in Germany, Hikaru already did a lot to promote Go among kids and teens. Three years ago, there was pretty much only one tournament for children/teens a year in Germany (in Hamburg). Then Hikaru no go got groups in some schools started playing go. Last year, there were over 50 such tournaments, and quite a few of the most regular tournament players in Germany last year were younger than 20, too.

P.S.: Please leave a note here in case you start such a room on KGS, then I can try to pass the news on to the young go community here.

kritz Done - I opened a Kids room on KGS. Maybe I should have them lurk at the Hikaru no go room. BTW I am so glad to here of your success in Germany ... That is awesome. Maybe we could get WMS to put a note for a bit on the opening screen to advertise?

Bob McGuigan: Lately there have been a lot of young people attending US Go Congresses and I imagine the same is true for the European Go Congress. Maybe the various go associations could point you to a children's organizer or two who could help populate the KGS room.

kritz good idea : I was thinking of going to the US go congress ... but maybe it should be GOYOUTH instead of "kids." In any event, a safe online atmosphere would be nice. I still feel the need to sit next to them when they play. At least in the beginning of the game.

2004 January 6

kokiri - I tidied up the debate on the page kyuuba. I think I kept most of the information in there, but neatened it up a bit.

Bob Myers - And I've further re-arranged things there. Let me know if anyone has any problems with this.

2004 January 3

tartrate is back !!

Hikaru79: :) Yup! And kicking some butt! I've never seen this many observers...

Stefan: Not only that, but surfer 5k* logged into IGS today !!! I mean, what are the odds...???

Hikaru79: Surfer...? I played him back when I was 30k... what's special about him? Or were you joking? :P

2003 December 31

unkx80: A Happy New Year 2004 to all. =)

Can a librarian please rename Beginner Exercise 160 Attempts to Beginner Exercise 160 Solution? Thanks in advance.

Stefan: And a happy one to you, Sir. Page rename done.

Hikaru79: And, in perfect synchronicity with New Years' Eve, Sensei's Library now has exactly 8000 pages! (Check the Front Page. Congratulations on SL's 8000th page!

2003 December 30

SGBailey: Anyone know why when I click on a link (such as StartingPoints) in the yellow side bar, I go to that page but without the yellow sidebar. The sidebar info appears at the bottom of the page instead. If I follow a different link, it appears to usually? get it right.

Stefan: Duplicated this question on GuineaPigsFeedback to increase the chance it catches knowledgeable eyeballs. Never seen this phenomenon myself.

2003 December 26

Nacho: I just restored a vandalized page (StrangeProOpening3), but I don't know if I did it right, can anybody check it please? First time I do this... Oh, and Merry Christmas!

unkx80: It looks okay. Assuming you have set your Wiki experience level in User preferences to "experienced SL deshi", then restoring the page by clicking on the "Revive" link won't go wrong.

Karl Knechtel: Hikaru79, sorry about the brief edit war? on DougsGoBlog. I was in the middle of realizing I had a wrong diagram (and trying to make a correct one) when you found the problem :)

BTW, I had a lot of difficulty with making successive edits to this page (and it seems I can never get things right the first time even when I remember to preview ^^; ) Could we possibly have the edit collision prevention not kick in for successive edits by the same user? I find it annoying to be told that KarlKnechtel might be editing the current page, that my edit conflicted with KarlKnechtel's and needs to be merged manually, etc. I sometimes have to submit the same thing several times to get it to work properly, and worry that I am polluting the RecentChanges :(

Hikaru79-- Oh, sorry about that, Karl ^^; I was wondering if you were still editing that page when I found the mistake, so I waited a few minutes before jumping in, but I guess I should have waited a bit more, since finding a correct diagram is not as easy as identifying a wrong one. ^^ Sorry again.

2003 December 25

Bill: Merry Christmas, everyone! :-)

2003 December 23

Hikaru79-- I just noticed that the page KGSUsersGuide is a Home Page... is there any reason for that, or is it just the way it was created coinicidentally?

hikaru79 -- Just realized that regular deshis can change page types, so I changed it to none, feel free to change it back if you feel there's a good reason for it to be a home page.

2003 December 21

Charles Breaking news - new French champion. See [ext] http://www.go-paris.org/.

phenomene: Let me congratulate Bernard Helmstetter for winning the 2003 French Championship. He is a very fast rising player and his victory was unexpected for some. He was 4 kyu in 1995 on the French rating list, he is 5 dan now. Bravo, Bernard!

2003 December 18

Hi guys/gals! I was told to ask here to have MoreVariationsThantheTaisha deleted. Thanks!

mgoetze: Why didn't anyone tell you to sign your contributions to this page, though? (Entering it under the correct date, instead of in the middle of someone else's contribution, should be obvious...)

SnotNose: <Wrist slap number 2> Presumably the post was from me <-- that's his login name, not meaning me, SnotNose--annoyingly confusing I think. (S)he seems a newbie here and (curiously) is struggling to figure out how to use SL. (S)he's been advised to look around to see how things are done before willy-nilly adding pages and text. (S)he should be getting the hint by now. We'll see...

Rich: Can anyone help? I've changed computers and can't seem to log back in; my username is apparently not what I thought it was. Does anyone (presumably an admin) have any suggestions on how to get back in?

Arno: Rich, you have never registered an account. The history of your page shows that you once edited it as "RichLancashire", however this must be a username without password, i.e. no account on the server side. Just go create a new account called RichLancashire and set a new password.

JohnAspinall: Me too. Same problem, different cause. Assistance greatly appreciated.

Arno: John, you do have an account, but apparently forgot your password. As the password is stored encrypted in the database I cannot tell what your password actually is. As the account system does not allow resetting passwords yet, I have deleted your account. Just create a new one called "JohnAspinall".

JohnAspinall: Many thanks, Arno.

2003 December 15

minismurf: I tries to make a horizontal rule on the page MGSGoTripToChina but didn't get it to work, please help me :)

phenomene: Done. Just type ---- without spaces. :-)

2003 December 13

Darron Shaffer: Dieter, did you really intend to change the keyword on How Diagrams Work? It seems wrong...

Dieter: Mouse slip.

2003 December 10

TJ: Completed WME on KGSWishlist. As such, content removed from KGSWishlistSummary, please feel free to delete it.

mgoetze: Please give me lots and lots of feedback at Systematic Joseki.

Hans I observed the following: If there are stones on the first line (from the top) sometimes small vertical lines are pointing upwards although there is no board. The reason seems to be that the line of "----" does not match the points in the diagram that correspond to empty intersections on the board.

You find an example for this on the page Kanazawa Solution Three in the first three diagrams. If one places every "-" exactly above one "." or "X" or "O", etc. the small vertical lines do not show up. So may be one should change the boards that appear at the bottom of the edit page. I have changed the line of "--" in the second diagram such that one can appreciate the difference.

Arno: your observaion is correct, but your conclusion is wrong :o) Yes, on "old" diagrams you see that one pixel sticking up, not because of a line being drawn too far, but because of the used graphics library that drew filled circles of that particular size in that odd way. Since a recent upgrade the graphics library got better as well and decided to draw "better" circles. To change a diagram from "old" to "new" modify the diagram, save, undo your modification, save again.
ps: such feedback is better placed at GuineaPigsFeedback

Hu: Regarding the persistent vandalism by 80.28.104.69 of DistanceFromFrontPage and the recent vandalism by 80.28.117.44 of FrontPage, perhaps a letter from Arno or Morten to telefonica-net is a good idea, seeing as how they are likely the same person.

Arno: I'll think about it, if this continues. I prefer the current approach though. If all else fails, I just hand out more librarian accounts and such a vandal will be banned within minutes. More effective than trying to pursuae an ISP of the wrongdoing of a customer.

2003 December 9

Sebastian: Please take a look at the latest change in KGSWishlist. Large chunks have been deleted high-handedly. While part of this was indeed chaff, it also affected many sincere wishes from several people. It is for a reason that wms said that he would never delete anything just because he didn't like it, and I think this is a respectful policy we should all practice. (BTW, this happened after, and is unrelated to the issue described in GuineaPigsFeedback.)

mgoetze: They may be sincere, but if they are never going to get implemented anyway and the discussion of them has died out, I see no reason to keep the fossils in with the reasonable wishes. See also my recent contribution to Future Use of SL and the note I added at the bottom of the wishlist. I think SL needs more of this kind of "heavyhandedness".

Fhayashi: I agree with mgoetze. He deleted one of my entries in KGSWishlist, and he was correct in doing so, as far as I'm concerned. It's too easy to write stuff in wikis, and if someone doesn't make the decision whether it's worth keeping or not, the wiki quickly gets full of clutter. And the clutter does take away from the good content.

Cheyenne: My only comment (minor at that) .. is that the discussions may rise up once again if the original wish item wasn't addressed. Probably a better way to have handled this would have been to leave a small summary of the discussion and how it was resolved or the final thoughts on the subject.

Tamsin: If anybody feels unhappy about having some of their work deleted, then they can always restore it. If somebody did it to me, I would restore it if I felt strongly that I wanted people to read my contribution, and if the other party deleted again, I would e-mail them and try to resolve the matter through sensible discussion. If you do delete, then please remember that others can also do it to you.

TJ: While I'm here...it was time someone did something, and it seemed well in the wiki spirit to me, and I had novels full of rants taken out.;)

2003 December 4

AndrewW: The FrontPage was mangled by 203.118.169.218: I've reverted it.

Hans: I am not sure if this is the right place to ask. I would like to change the title of my own page. Is this possible?

Charles: I can do that for you.

Hans: Hi Charles, that would be nice. Can you just change it to "Hans Schnabel". Thanks in advance.

Charles Slight problem right now - I'm having to re-apply for Librarian status, so I must ask you to wait a little.

2003 December 1

dnerra: I tried my luck as WikiMasterEditor of Monkey Jump. Please comment/complain. There are still some redundancies left, but it was a huge edit the way I did it, already.

unkx80: Looks good, thanks.

By the way, I have also deleted quite a few discussions which I consider old and outdated, and not directly related to Go. I think currently on SL there are already too many such discussions cluttering up the pages.

Dieter: "Mr. WME himself" is happy too. I keep the habit of mentioning which version preceded the WME and also give an idea of the major rearrangement. Not urging everyone to do the same though.

By the way, unkx80, I also cunningly whipped an annoying discussion under the doormat, until you decided to do a full text search. Tsk tsk.

Hu: Thank you dnerra. I've been sorely tempted to do it to that specific page myself.


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