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2005-07-04

AvatarDJFlux I'm writing this from my brand new iMac G5 and it seems I'm not able to set my normal usernaame here - it says that the password is wrong or the username is already used by someone else (i.e. me...) What can I do? The password is my usual one, of course, so I do not see anything wrong with it...

LATER... It was after all the wrong password... Problem is, I have too many - and tend to forget them... :-)

2005-6-15

tderz: I notice that the search terms are only searched in the titles. Clicking "Fulltext" makes no difference.

unkx80: Known issue, but can't be fixed until Arno comes back. BTW, anyone knows why is he disappearing for so long?

Additionally "Find page" is not anymore a selectable item in the left column. (ok, tools -> advanced lead you to there).
Are there plans for making the left column user-editable?

unkx80: You can modify your bookmarks at user preferences.

2005-6-6

Bill: I have noticed that when you go to page info and click the view for the earliest version of the page, you sometimes see the current version instead. I think that may happen when the name has been changed, as with opening.

2005-5-31

Blake: Instead of applying the WikiOrphan text box to any page linked from that one, it seems that an extra step--checking to make sure that the page in question is, in fact, an orphan--is advisable. I have removed links to several homepages, and the homepage? page itself, because they were incorrectly being flagged as orphans. Failing this change, perhaps a discussion page should be opened up in order to collect comments.

2005-5-29

mAsterdam: When viewing Get Strong at Kibitz with Mozilla or Explorer the image ( html source: <img src="[ext] http://holosys.co.uk/go/gsak.jpg" ALT="[ext] http://holosys.co.uk/go/gsak.jpg"> ) displays ok. However, Firefox (1.02 and 1.04) does not show it. I don't know why it does not, but an ALT-tag with the same value as the src-tag in the img does not seem right.

gedh: It seems to show up ok with Firefox 1.04 at this end.

2005-5-10

Dieter: The "full text search" on the top right actually still is a title search.

2005-5-04

Benjamin: When I try to view related changes (from my UGS-page of course ^^), I see some message about a mySQL-error and nothing is displayed on bottom: "Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/www/senseis.xmp.net/private_html/lib/recentchanges.php on line 92"

2005-4-19

Dieter: The "full text search" on the top right actually still is a title search.

unkx80: When one edits a page and saves it, there is a missing picture. In fact, the URL to the picture is not valid.

2005-04-14

Is it possible to change the way monospace lines are displayed such that the leading spaces are hidden? That would be particularly useful in case of code snippets if intended to be C&P-able. Where leading spaces were needed, they could be added, anyways.

2005-04-08

rubilia: In Opera, the fulltext search button in the upper right corner leads to "Title Search" results.

2005-03-02

Dieter: Request to be able to add table of contents without table of diagrams. See BQM213 for a page with a succinct structure but lots of diagrams, making the table of contents and diagrams unnecessarily large.

2005-03-02

axd: While reading RulesOfGoIntroductory, I wondered if there is any intention to introduce the cross and triangle symbols? I know this is not urgent, but it would help standardise their uses; now, we use circles and squares from more meanings. For example, in the diagram [Black captures three stones|RulesOfGoIntroductory#diag13], crosses would be more handy to mark dead stones. (See also Symbols.)

2005-02-25

axd: I have an extremely irritating horizontal scrollbar visible when browsing SL: the SL page seems to be just a few pixels wider than my screen, so for those few pixels the browser (Avant) decides that a scrollbar is needed ... <-- After submitting the previous observation, when the page was saved the scrollbar had disappeared; but it is still present when editing this page.

Arno: this is a browser bug I can do nothing about. No SL page defines its width in any way. As for scrollbar on the edit page: try to set less columns for the text edit window in your prefs. Maybe that helps.

2005-2-24

tderz: What is the easiest way to type directly this character " | " in Senseis? I do not find it in WORD, nor do I know any shortcut or key combination.
It is needed to separate the name of a link from it's URL.

Ok, found it on [ext] HTML ASCII Unicode Converter: it is |, but how to create a key combination?

unkx80: The vertical bar should be found on your keyboard, dude... may appear as a broken vertical bar on the keyboard but shows up as a solid vertical bar on the screen.

tderz: test: ¦
[HTML ASCII Unicode Converter ¦ http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/unicode/ascii.html] => it does not seem to work on my keyboard, unkx80. I tried this one before. Again, how to program a Unicode character as permanent key function?

Arno: see e.g. [ext] http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx Otherwise search on the web.

unkx80: Try this: with the Num Lock on, hold down the Alt key, and press 1, 2, 4 on the numeric keypad, and then release the Alt key.

Morten unkx80's suggestion is the best one, independent of your actual keybord layout. Any ANSI character can be obtained in this way. E.g. Alt-0176:"°" Alt-0181:"΅" and Alt-0124:"|".

Googling for 'german keyboard layout' (I think tderz is in Berlin), it seems that if you have a German 102-key keyboard (with the < and > characters on the bottom left), you can get the "|" by doing "right-alt-<" - see [ext] http://www.classykeyboards.com/datacal/german-austrian-layout.htm.

tderz I'm in NL and guess I have a Swiss keyboard (DE/FR..).

I'll try tomorrow at work, thanks all!

2005-2-18

Dieter: Isn't it strange that, now that I'm on on aother computer at our network, my ip is logged as 10.xxx.xxx.xxx ?

unkx80: At the same time, I find it a bit strange that someone's IP is logged as 127.0.0.1.

Arno: should be fixed now. Did some tests and forgot to undo them.

2005-02-16

tderz: Question, how do you best and easiest create a diagram here for Senseis? If I create a position with my SGF-editor (SmartGo; fast)
(;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[13]AP[SmartGo:1.5]ST[1] ABhb?[jb:kb]gc?ic?hd? AW[fb:fc]gb?lb?[jc:kc]gd?he?je? PLW)
which looks like this

Morten Actually, it shouldn't - SZ[13] would indicate that this should be on a 13x13 board.

[Diagram]

"break out" problem (1)

and then want to make a diagram via "generate diagram from SGF" on Senseis, Senseis tells me:

Sorry. Your starting move number is beyond the end of the game. This game has only 0 moves.

[Diagram]

End position

The end position looks like this:
This is only one stone and even in a position where it does not belong!

Morten - Either your SGF is incorrect, or the converter is not fully SGF compliant. I do not think that the structure [jb:kb] within the AB and AW is correct SGF. If you modify them to [jb][kb] it produces a better result. (Exclamation marks added in editpage text to improve legibility on the presented page)

Also, the SGF to SL diagram converter is just a beta version - it seems to struggle with other board sizes than 19x19 - the stone is actually in the right position, but on the wrong size board...

Arno: several issues here: as Morten pointed out:

  • unsupported board size, currently only 19x19 supported
  • unsupported compressed lists (the [jb:kb] is valid SGF)
  • a bug that seems to be unable to handle a file containing only one node

I'll put all 3 issues on my TODO, but I'm rather busy currently. And this fix is not high-priority for me.

unkx80: Try using some other SGF client such as Jago? Then copy the SGF out from that client.

Thanks. tderz. Got it, 19x19

AndersKierulf: No need to use a different SGF editor. In SmartGo, choose Tools > Options > Save to turn off compressed point lists.

tderz: What are compressed point lists used for? Save some bits?

unkx80: As the name implies, yes. Say you have setup black stones all the way from (1, 1) to (10, 10) inclusive, the idea is to specify something like "(1, 1) to (10, 10)" rather than listing all 100 points (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), ..., (10, 10) as having black stones.

2005-01-27 - Special Joseki Pages (Templates and more) - In theory

Alright, this touches even those of you who don't really care about the Systematic Joseki project. (Not that I understand why... If you have actual reasons and it's not just a "i don't liek the name" or "that actually requires... work!", would really help if you mentioned them at the discussion... (So that we could prove to you that it's worth the "trouble";)

Could the Joseki pages (call them corner situation /whatever as they aren't meant to be purely a joseki dictionary - we have enoguh of those, around...we'll have other tools to help people;), be special pages? Special pages as in pages with a certain template and pages which don't display the parent node as a refferer and more? By having the parts in them seprate(would help alot to the manual input process) or even auto generated upon creation or from an sgf, we would save a lot of time. And maybe even have the posibility of generating an sgf from the dictionary as a whole... And an easier generation of show all position by result (Helping to chose joseki) and retrieving problems from sub nodes and more... Reuven

(This is a purely teoretical question at the moment not a specific one. Details are still a bit blurry - If it's possible we'll start working on the details)

2005-01-21

A funny thing happens if you click "next" at [ext] http://senseis.xmp.net/?path=SnapbackWorkshop&page=SnapbackProblem31 - it jumps for a page to another index and next again it goes back.. :) Reuven

unkx80: I think that's because Snapback Problem 32 is an alias to RTG Problem 10.

Ohh I see... ^^* - Thanks.. Reuven

Dieter: I'll explain again here what happened to me today. I tried to make Excellent move the main page for the content and myoshu and miaoshou the aliases. However, when turning the pagetype of Excellent move to "none" and replacing the alias with the content, I made some fatal error and was blocked automatically. Arno unblocked me, I repeated the action and was blocked again.

Arno: resolved the matter by email, but may be for others of interest as well: if you are an anonymous user and add to many [ext] http:// links in one go, you get automatically blocked. This check was added to prevent link spam that started to happen last year. Maybe I should change that policy. Note: logged in users are not affected by that check.

2005-01-19

First 2 diagrams show up on the same line at TsumegoFromGames25/Solution when browsing with firefox. Reuven

Arno: This is a Firefox bug. Don't know a good way around it. Maybe inserting a line break (4x%) is a workaround.

2005 January 18 -- Headings Beginning with a Link

AshleyF: Very minor: a heading that begins with a link doesn't seem to work:

[This Doesn't Work|SomePage?]

But This Does?

And With Leading Space It Does?

Morten: It's not a bug, it's a feature. (From Text Formatting Rules:)

  • You can suppress linking to references by preceding the word with a '!', e.g. NotLinkedAsWikiName, http://not.linked.to/.

The weakness is that the exclamation mark is used both for paragraph marking (headings) and for link negation. Your examples show valid workarounds, though.

AshleyF: Ah, of course. Thanks Morten!

2005 January 14 -- Cut and Paste for Diagrams

JoelR: Often I want to paste a diagram from one page onto another. For example, from a problem to the solution subpage, or from a page to its discussion. My technique has been to edit the source page, copy, press cancel, and then edit the destination page. This seems inelegant, and likely to cause mistakes. Is there/can there be a better way?

unkx80: I think currently, there isn't a better way.

2005 January 08 -- Wiki Orphans warning obsolete

mAsterdam: When does the warning dissappear? Osimato is linked now, and deleted from the Wiki Orphan page, but the warning is still there. (BTW: If some of the advanced deshi would elaborate on Osimato, I'm sure that I am not the only one who would appreciate it).

5 minutes later: Now the warning has gone. Is it because it is linked from two pages?

Arno: no, it is an issue with your browsers cache. Try reloading and the warning should disappear immediatly after you have removed the link from WikiOrphans.

Dieter: But I get the warning at Catalin Taranu's page, while it is referenced by numerous pages.

axd: Same with Go Places.

unkx80: I get the same problems too. I think I diagnosed the problem: it is because these pages have aliases which are orphans pointing to them. These are Nimue and LocalClubs respectively.

Arno: yes it is because of the aliases. I don't think I can fix this, because aliases are "too low-level" for this routine. I suggest either linking the alias from somewhere (or moving the alias to WikiOrphans/AliasesToKeep). As for the mentioned aliases: Nimue should probably be removed, LocalClubs should probably be kept.

2005 January 06 -- RecentChanges filters

jantiff: RecentChanges filters are a very nice feature to have ! Thank you for implementing this good idea.

However, there is still an issue with subpages. For instance: filter contains -k:Equipment, but a change on BuyingEquipment/InEurope won't be filtered out even though the superpage has the Equipment keyword. I hope there is a simple way to fix this.

Arno: will be done. The fix is not trivial.

axd: Minor observation about the filter tool: the Apply button is confusing, because selecting from the list does the job. I assume this is for browsers that do not allow Javascript.

Arno: Indeed. The button is for browsers without Javascript.

Xanthus: Would the [ext] noscript-tag help?

axd: Low priority: would it be possible to have commented lines formatted in the normal way (including hyperlinking if present) while still be grey/hidden (depending on preferences)? I don't see why commented lines would no longer allow to jump to hyperlinks, or maybe be part of a list. I have the impression that commenting is not used often, but it is a valuable alternative to discussions - although on a smaller scale.

% so this should still work (but greyed, possibly hidden): [axd]

Arno: I don't see why this is useful and actually don't like the idea. Comments are comments. Not some nifty feature to hide content from the general public.

2005 January 02

(Hicham) I have a strange trouble with The Random page function. When I use "[ext] http://senseis.xmp.net/?random=1", I get a page by my internet provider. I have changed the 1 into a 2 (random=2), and this solved the problem. But only with my bookmark. When I click Random page on the site, I get sent to my provider start page. A couple of days ago I went over my downloading limit and got punished with a lower spedd for the rest of December, but now everything i back to normal except this. Any ideas ?

Arno: sorry, can't help you with this one. The logs show you using the random function until 23rd December and then again starting today using random=2. So your provider's proxy blocks the URL for some unknown reason. What does the page of your provider say? About "random page on the site": I assume you mean the link in the yellow bar? If so, go to UserPreferences and change the value there to random=2 as well.

2005 January 01

Dave: As a result of the flurry of name changes, I became interested in the errata pages. When I checked The Magic of Go / Errata I found that the problems on it are linked to The Magic of Go / Problem 1 Wrong Solution, The Magic of Go / Problem 1 Solution, The Magic of Go / Problem 2 Wrong Solution, etc. The problem is that none of the toplevel pages exist: Magic of Go, Magic of Go Problem 1?, Magic of Go Problem 2?, and Magic of Go Problem 3?. The page that describes the newspaper column is The Magic of Go. I do not know whether this is really a problem with renaming (at least the The Magic of Go / Errata is) or with the original creation of the pages but I think that we need to consider how to limit this type of mistake. What do others think?

mAsterdam: I changed a few more names. Is it QC acceptable now?

Dave: My reason for posting on "Guinea Pigs" was not the page as such but to raise the more general issue of how to control this sort of thing better. For one thing, I was a little surprised that it is seemingly possible to create subpages for main pages that do not exist. Is it possible to create a warning when this is about to happen? Also the "subpage" header in the upper right corner of the page shows the non-existent main page as a real link rather than as a non-existent ("page name?") link. Should this be corrected?

unkx80: I have a similar comment for the Discuss Page link on the top as well.

2004 December 24 -- "my" edits

SGBailey: Is there a way of listing the pages that I have edited? A bit like the recent changes page, but of (say) the most recent 100 edits I've done (with next link for edits 101-200 etc).

Morten Using the Advanced Search features, you can find those where you were the last contributor. For all your edits, that is less easy although there is an admin/librarian function which is really meant to track vandals... I found 46 edits which match 'bailey' over the last year, 54 since your first edit 30 September 2003. I can send them to you as a X-mas present....? ;-)

SGBailey: No thanks. It is just a nice feature to easily pickup where you had got too on some thread you were following and /or to see what has happened to edits you have done. Compare with the wikipedia function [ext] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=SGBailey Happy Christmas.

axd: I'd also like to be able to search in the deltas. Is there a (probably technical) reason why this is not desirable for the general public? Maybe too time-consuming, I guess?

2004 December 20 -- New Layout (-frame-tables +css)

Christoph Gerlach: I have "EuropeanGoTournamentCalendar" in my favorites and this forces the left side to overlap the content.

Arno: add spaces in the name, then the link goes over two lines.

froese?: Under Netscape 4.7 the layout is totally broken, the same with W3M and eLinks. The former layout was fine with all the mentioned browsers. It seems that CSS is now a requirement :-((

Xan: New Layout's Pauperism
I totally agree with froese?. Any text and text+frame+img browser are now really handicapped. Must be remembered that imho SL's first goal are info on WeiQi/Baduk/Go, not on his own aestethics. CSS must be only an add-on feature for mammouth browsers, not a tricky way for debase quick access browsers. Wikis ,ethimologically, are born for quick accesses. Frames and tables viewed with a light and fast companion like w3m+img was already the ideal format also for very portable devices. Please reintegrate soon at least a double face version. War against net-nil-mammouths !

Arno: at least on my system the layout looks ok with lynx & w3m, see [ext] http://senseis.xmp.net/files/sl-lynx-screenshot.png. I don't see where the problem is. And no, IE4/NS4 is not an issue for me. Period. These are dinosaurs more than 5 years old. I'll be adding more features soon, none of which runs on IE4/NS4.

axd: I have it very difficult with this attitude where websites just impose their visitors to upgrade their browsers, install add-ons (Macromedia), impose javascript, etc... Although I have only basic (HTML) webmaster knowledge, I can't understand why everybody keeps pushing to incorporate more bells and whistles in their web pages. It just gives me the impression those webmasters only want to show how bright they are. Do we really need drop-down menus? Do we really need a cursor that flies around with a string of stars following it? Do we really need a status bar with a scrolling "welcome to TheCrap.com!"? Why do those webmasters each decide on another color scheme? Why don't they just let me choose how I want to see hyperlinks coloured? Why should't my back key just do what it has always done? Intranets, specialised sites can use the technology; but is is necessary for public websites - eg a movie theatre - where one just wants to know when the movie is shown? This information can't be more than a few clicks away, why store it in cookies, nest it away in menus, hide it in scrolling frames? This technological evolution seems to me to go faster and faster, to the point where quality risks dropping dangerously and hackers, virus writers and other crap can enjoy "target-rich" environments. I wouldn't be surprised if technological advances will increase so rapidly that "daily updates" of one's OS will be no longer be unusual, and even be essential later on. How about keeping it simple and stupid, listen to what Occam tried to say? The analogy with the evolution of programming languages comes to me, and as far as I know the Risk branch doesn't seem to have much success. Likewise, creating websites nowadays is no longer a matter of opening Notepad (or vi :-) ) and manage opening and closing tags: a higher level of abstraction is needed. But I wonder if some concepts are really thought up because the world needs it? Or rather because some wizz kid dreams of some weird new possibility, and others pick up the idea, use it and press the wizz kid to produce even more of those ideas (never mind, we will sell the software)... Note I'm not against evolution, but against the pace that is imposed on evolution. Hum ... let's cool down :-)

Arno: :o) Is this the same axd requiring new features on SL every now and then? Should I dumb down SL to the point where it was in late 2000? By your logic, the web should have never gone beyond Mosaic. Maybe we should have stayed with gopher after all. Actually, leaving the trees might have been a bad move in the first place :o)

axd:-) I know - I'm the kind that keeps pushing others to improve their software... It's only that I feel so irritated by all those people whose motivation is only to make profit (I'm not hinting at SL, in case you wonder), it seems as if everything has to happen while THEY are alive. If we could use our brains a little bit more, and be more patient, we (as a civilisation) might live several million years longer. But no, progress MUST be made TODAY, otherwise the shareholders will look for someone else. (Sorry for going off-topic, I guess there are better places than SL to discuss this.)

Dieter: Hey axd, how about a game? (nothing but a good panem et circenses to lighten the weight of the world)

2004 December 16 -- Bookmarks

axd: I wish I would be able to add pages I sometimes come across to some kind of Favorites/Bookmarks space (similar to the watched pages list), so that later I can come back. This is especially interesting because I browse SL from different places, so apart from editing the limited links on the left side, there is no other option than to edit my homepage and add the link, or e-mail the URL to the other computer.

2004 November 22 -- Search for patterns; exclusion of words in results

Gronk: Has there been discussion or consideration of the possibility of a pattern match search on SL? A few days back I had wanted to find discussion of a certain corner position. I knew I had seen it on SL but I could not recall the page name or enough about it to do a sensible search. But, were there a pattern match search I could have searched for the position (much like on GoBase).

Dieter: Yes we have debated it. Arno would see if he had time/desire to implement.

Another search gripe: Searching for "seki" brings up many pages on "joseki". This is annoying. Is there a way to exclude joseki when one is interested just in seki?

Dieter: enter "seki -joseki -fuseki -inseki"

2004 November 14 -- Edit conflict warning?

Karl Knechtel: It appears that I frequently am a bit hasty with submitting my edits, and wish to change things - but end up being stumped by the Edit Conflict Warning page, since apparently a conflict is detected with my own edit somehow. I would have thought that submitting your changes would cancel the edit warning anyway. Could something be done about this?

Bob McGuigan: I've noticed this, too. Apparently the system is a little slow in recognizing when edits have been submitted. I discovered that when I submit a second edit under these circumstances there is actually no conflict.

Arno: are you really clicking "Edit page" again and don't use the back button? I have never experienced this. The moment the final page with the "thank you"-message appears the page is in the database and therefor a new edit should not produce a warning.

Bill: I have noticed it, too, without clicking the back button.

What irks me is when I abide by the warning, wait for up to 10 minutes, and then see no edit. Now maybe that is because somebody has changed his mind, but, since I sometimes see the warning for myself when I have made no changes, I wonder what is going on.

DJ: Happens to me too. Only, when I'm editing my own hastiness, as Karl above, I just click the "Save" button when I'm finished and the edit's edits are saved despit the warning... which is fine enough for me.

2004 November 10 -- Allow "?" in diagrams

(Sebastian:) Allow entering a ? on an intersection in a diagram so it can be used for undetermined intersections, such as in Introduction to the 'press' tactic / Discussion.
(later:) This has become unneccessary now for the intended purpose, since we agreed to use underscores to express undetermined intersections. However, it would still be nice to have if we could enter any character into a diagram, e.g. by "escaping" it with a "/" in place of the preceding space.

2004 November 1 -- Hide Vandalism in Recent Changes list

(Sebastian:) Can we please have an automatic feature that removes entries from the Recent Changes list when they have been identified as vandalism? It is really annoying and a huge loss of time if every well-meaning deshi has to

  • open each suspicious diff,
  • examine it to find that it's vandalism,
  • edit the page to revert, (Necessary because we can't see any evidence that it has been taken care of since most of the time both the reversion and the entry in WikiVandals are minor changes)
  • only to find that it already has been edited.

This could be implemented by just hiding all changes by a IP address that has been blocked from the Recent Changes list.

2004 October 21 -- Footnotes[1] and diagram title position

Robert Pauli: The TOC shouldn't show footnote links: it's ugly and for no use.

Robert Pauli: Now let me ask for something really crazy:

A diagram's titel should be above it.

This would go way more natural with the text at the right-hand side, especially if it's short.

2004 October 12 -- Pruned Advanced Search

rubilia: KGSWishlist probably is about to get split into several main pages (for details, see KGSWishlist/discussion). Thinking about how to encourage users to look for already filed wishes, first: Would it be possible to get a pruned advanced search implemented at the entry page to that future page structure, showing just the "full text search" line, but restricted by default to all pages containing a particular identifier (KGSWish..., e. g.)?

Arno: I don't think I implement something like that. The next wish is to have the functionality of AdvancedFindPage and I don't want to implement that. I am going to improve sub-pages one of these days, so that is your best guess (i.e. a TOC directive that spans all sub-pages, a directive for the order of sub-pages within the TOC, and maybe as well a search restricted to the sub-pages)

2004 October 7 -- a way to save text files as-is

(Sebastian:) Should we offer a way to save text files as-is? E.g. when someone posts an SGF file such as KGSTeaching Ladder Games List it displays awfully, and it clutters the UndefinedPages list.

2004 September 9-- page width and formatting

The problem of page width exceeding the browser limits is somehow related to the combination of small text, using space indents, and titles, using exclamation marks. --Dieter

2004 August 22 -- Bias for Random Page

Bildstein: The "Random Page" option generally seems to take you to an element of a long list - a BQM, a go problem, a glossary item, etc. I find this slightly frustrating, because generally what I want to see is a new idea. I was thinking that it was inevitable, but now I'm not so sure. I assume that "Random Page" is implemented as randomly choosing one page, giving each page an equal likelihood. But what if it was implemented by traversing the tree of pages, giving pages a lower probability of being chosen if their parent has many children? I know this is only a half baked idea, but perhaps someone else will pick it up and run with it.

2004 June 23 -- Request: Source Text of Earlier Page Versions

rubilia: Sometimes it would be useful to have (read-only) access to the source text of earlier page versions. E. g., right now I'd like to re-include some recently deleted diagrams to a particular page in a changed manner. Maybe in the "view version" view there could be a "show source" link instead of the regular "edit" link in current pages?

2004 June 20 -- shortcut keys don't work correctly; Request: Link to RecentChanges

rubilia: Arno, I didn't want to bother you with this marginal stuff while you were dealing with the structural change of SL pages. Maybe now it's the time: The shortcut keys 1 to 9 in diff-in-page views don't really work the way they should, yet. Also, it would be nice if there was either a link or a hotkey to jump immediatly back to RecentChanges after reading a series of diffs. Right now, one has to ask the browser history, which is a little awkward.

2004 May 26 -- watch pages and subpages

axd: I often want to watch pages as well as some of their subpages; (un)toggling the watch status requires a lot of clicking around. So I wondered if it would be possible to list not only the page, but also the subpages on a page's watch status page; each (sub)page would be a line with the current watch status, hyperlinked to toggle that status (similar as in the current "To undo, ..."). This would avoid one having to go to all subpages and (un)toggle there.

Bill: I would find material about subpages and how to use them helpful. :-)

Hu: About Sub Pages? should be a sub-page of SL Conventions.

2004 May 15 -- Extend stone notation to W20/B20

Blake: This is a very minor feature request, but I was wondering if "small stones" notation could be extended to W20/B20. There seem to be a decent number of "W11"/"B11" references, especially.

2004 April 16 -- Request: SLWishlist

axd: (BTW - I still think we could use a SLWishlist? page)

2004 April 16 -- Requests: Diff view

I perceive the "diff in page" view as a remarkable enhancement to the "standard diff" view, because the context of changes is shown entirely and correctly. However, there΄s a disadvantage: in big pages, it΄s a little awkward to find relatively small changes - although highlighted -, and even harder in cases the changes are spread over the whole diff. Wouldn't it be possible to add floating "jump to next/previous change" buttons, or (supposingly more realistic to be implemented ever :)) make two SL Shortcut Keys working that way?

Arno: Unless I add Javascript this function will not work - and I am not too keen about that. Maybe I can think of something else.

2004 March 20 -- search in page histories

axd: Is it possible to search in the page histories? This is interesting, for example when I want to know about every contribution someone made, not only the most recent one; and also, if for example a link gets deleted, creating an orphan, to know where the orphan was last referenced before it got deleted.

2004 March 4 -- Request: Display stones in diagram titles

mAsterdam: I copied this from the sandbox:

Why don't B1 W2 B3 become graphics here in diagram titles?

2004 February 1 -- track searches that have zero hits

bojo: Is there a way to track searches that have zero hits, and rank them? It would be nice to grab the higher ranking negative hits and create aliases to real pages for them, so people searching have a better chance of finding what they were after (hopefully).


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