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28 June 2009

Phelan: Someone just added the following at the PagesForBeginners: "A Go summer camp in Fremont, CA, USA [ext] http://www.egogames.com is a great place to improve fast." Is there a better place for Go camp announcements? There is a page for Go Workshops in europe. Maybe there could be a similar calendar for go camps, or maybe have a unified place for this kind of announcement?

tapir: The Go workshops page isn't the most popular place here - since contribution is lacking. The American Tournament Calendar was not very much used as well... so for practical purposes maybe the best way is a WorldGoWorkshopsCalendar?.

tapir: I need help here :)

29 April 2009

RueLue: Does anybody know, what happened to Dan Stromberg? I didn't see anything from him for long time now: page links are dead (e.g. those for Soksoo Database) - I hope, he not also. edit: i found his home page: [ext] http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/ so thankyou, he's alive.

22 April 2009

Arno: Rebuilt diagrams. Took longer than expected.

10 April 2009

Arno: I perform a system upgrade this weekend (Sunday or Monday.) SL will experience some downtime and may be unreachable for some hours.

On a side note: I will also fix bugs which have surfaced recently, e.g. t:1670, t:1784, t:1744, ...

4 April 2009

Only a few more hours left in the auction of my out-of-print go books. Bidding will end at 9pm Eastern Time (USA). See [ext] http://www.godiscussions.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8768 for details. - DrStraw

15 March 2009

Wiki vandal at work 72.74.124.183 has vandalized many home pages. Home page Chipper?

PeterHB: tapir has fixed them all. Its just not obvious from 'RecentChanges', but is from 'FullRecentChanges'. The specific page Chipper has a word that will need to be removed, but it is probably too inflammatory to fix it at this time.

Phelan: Added ip to vandals page. If he/she vandalizes again take away editing rights.

7 March 2009

Phelan: Does anyone else feel like Breakfast's latest edits to Senseis seem mostly attempts to promote GoSensations?

Bill: Yup, ;)

25 January 2009

The "home page" RVB seems to be spam for a Polish cosmetics site. Delete?

Tapir: Yes. But I did it already. This guy in Poland is persistant... I don't know how many pages we deleted already. Or is this made automatically? PS Try to look at the old diff link, if you like to see the black brother of the white smiling stone :)

Phelan: Can't you block the links or his ip? I didn't see it, so I can't try myself.

Tapir: But you're librarian as well, aren't you? (Admin page)

Phelan:Oh, I meant I didn't see the polish guy's edits. Just saw that the ip is blocked. I usually added spam links to the text block as well.

dyoo: Does anyone know what's happening with Samarkand? They seem to have dropped most of their items off their web store. Are they ok?

16 January 2009

Tapir: Some noticed already, people not being recent change junkies may have not... there is a new Ongoing Game.

Herman: Yes, the black team could do with at least one more player. Unkx80, you game? :-)

11 January 2009

Phelan: GoClubsOnline's pagename seems to be too similar to OnlineGoClubs. It was linked from the Reference Section, along with a change of keywords. I can't seem to find a better place to link it from, or a pagename change that would make sense. Do we have a list of go related assistance sites? Edit:Another page that could be better named or linked to: How to host a go site

30 December 2008

All of this poster's postings are spam: [ext] http://www.godiscussions.com/forum/member.php?u=5710

unkx80: You should raise it with Don, the administrator of GoDiscussions.

29 December 2008

Tapir: May someone check the mess i made out of Unsolved Template... Either it doesn't update the search results, or the search template is case sensitive, or worse it isn't found anymore. (I tried to add a search with lower case since i added unsolved tags with lower case and they didn't show up... no nothing works.)

Real time go server for nokia phone

eng60340 is there any online go server for nokia e71 ? i would assume that the japanese/koreans are already playing go on their mobile phones ? (Damn! i can edit word/excel documents, do gps navigation, surf most websites, watch youtube with this phone and yet i can't play online GO. =_= )

Somewhere in December 2008

Tapir: While editing the Great Wall I thought about inlining a Wikicommons Great Wall picture, but didn't manage to make a thumbnail version.

Herman: When you're at commons, for example [ext] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China, right-click (not left-click) on the thumbnail and select "View Image". This will get you to a url that includes "120px" somewhere in it. Replace that 120px with the width you want the pic to be (I've used 300px on Great Wall now) and then use the resulting url in the picture template.

Tapir: Wow it works! Thank you very much. (Just tested a bit...) I changed the picture, hope this is ok. With a hint towards the difficulties in using the Great Wall.

Herman: That's OK, I pretty much just picked a random one, this one is nice :)

1 November 2008

Velobici: When trying to login to CyberOro this evening, the client software displays an error message Your ID is not registered!. The ID and the password are the ones that I always use and are saved by the client software. Its not a matter of mistyping either the username or the password. Anyone else able to login ?

PeterHB: For CyberOro issues, CyberOro / Status is always a good place to look.

2008 October 31

Happy Halloween!

Does anybody know what is up with godiscussions.com? I have not been able to access it for a couple of days, now. -- Bill

RobertJasiek: During the early hours of failure, it would show error messages about database failures. Then the page could not be reached at all.

Kirby: The database failure errors seem to be something rather common. I've experienced them periodically throughout the time I've used GD. With those, you typically just wait for about 5 minutes, and then things will start to work again. But now, something seems to be definitely wrong with the site, because I also have not been able to access GD at least since Wednesday... Maybe this will help my productivity to improve.

Bill: Maybe you will go up a stone. ;)

Kirby: I hope so. I really need to stop playing so stupidly.

Phelan: There's a discussion thread about the downtime in the GoDiscussions.com page. Someone said the server is being rebuilt.

2008 October 28

Velobici: we have a bug in the search function for publisher...some pages have [publisher], some have publisher. As a result search finds one other the other. We need to change all the book pages to be the same.

Propose that we change all book pages to have [publisher] in the book template section.

axd: I was also struggling with the issue, as was Unkx80 I guess. I think it is better to focus on the search function: it should be made more intelligent, to find [<string>] as well when specifying <string>.

A second issue: maybe there is a risk to adding too much fields to templates, turning SL into a kind of database. Also, (eg) book pages are beginning to show duplicated information; is it the intention to keep a description paragraph that contains the same information that is present in the filled in template? Eg see Pure and Simple - Takao's Astute Use of Brute Force: the first paragraph is barely different from what is in the book template instance.

A third issue is the risk that the special search template will be added everywhere, thus increasing server load.

Velobici: The full repetition of information in both the book template and the first paragraph of the book description is excessive. Its historical, before we had the book template that information had to be in the description. Now we may wish to repeat only a few items: book name, author, publisher...perhaps another field or two or not.

Did not write the search function, so I can't comment on expanded it to cover both cases. Personally, would prefer to have the publisher listed in the book template as a link so that someone can immediately go to the publisher's page from the book template.

Don't know if any more fields are needed for the book template. We seen to have nearly all (all?) the interesting fields already in the template. Please compare Whole Board Thinking In Joseki with Pure and Simple - Takao's Astute Use of Brute Force. Very different approaches to repeating information.

fractic: Having a link to the publisher in all book pages seems like a good idea. How about changing the template to linkify automatically. We'd have to remove all the brackets in the book pages that currentely have them though.

Arno: I agree and think this is the proper way: add the link in the template itself, not in its value when calling. Or are there disadvantages to this approach?

axd: Meanwhile, anonymous 68.49.8.198 removed the publisher link in many book pages, but apparently without updating the book template. Was this the intention?

Velobici: So let's update the template rather than dicuss updating the template :) ..... one minute later .... that was easy! .... note that some books will have two sets of square brackets around the publisher till we locate and fix them all.

axd: Be reassured that I did consider updating the template.

2008 September 23

Anonymous: There appears to be a new clock on the market: the Chronos GX. (There's a touch-version too.) Could someone with more knowledge on clocks and access to a real Chronos GX please add some info to the Clocks page detailing how the GX stacks up against the current benchmark: the Chronos II? axd: Add to that a good email address - last time I contacted them, I got no reply.

I'm in the market for a decent clock. As I live in South Africa, it is absolutely impossible for me to see the product before I place an order.

Pasky: We have trouble with someone repeatedly vandalizing ASRProvisoryLeague and ProvisoryASRLeague, e.g. [ext] http://senseis.xmp.net/?diff=ProvisoryASRLeague&new=11&old=10 and [ext] http://senseis.xmp.net/?diff=ASRProvisoryLeague&new=11&old=10 - is there any way to prevent this? We don't want to restrict editing only to registered users either... Maybe it would be possible to auto-ban IP that will remove all the content from the page? ;-)

Tapir: We (derplumps and I) merged the pages again and put a warning at the top. Anyone deleting the whole page / the list despite of this will be banned.

2008 September 22

Bob McGuigan: Wiki vandal at work on ShinFusekiPost and JaredBeck/GuestBook.>Oops. I posted this without looking at the actual pages. I see that they have been restored.

2008 September 17

Pete Schwamb?: I added goshrine.com to the GoServers page. The server is new and thus doesn't have many players yet, but I figure it deserves a mention. Can anyone recommend any other pages (here or elsewhere) that would benefit from the addition of a link to this new go server?

Herman Hiddema: First off, it would be good to expand the GoShrine page. Then, you might look at other servers like IGS and KGS, see where they are linked from (in the menu on the left, under "Referenced by"), and decide if any of those pages fit you. For example from there: GnuGo (mention that you can play against it on GoShrine). Preferably use internal links to GoShrine, allowing people their own decision if they want to visit from there.

2008 July 31

Bob McGuigan: I put Japanese terminology in the CJK box on Bent Four in the Corner and Comb Formation after seeing them listed on the page CJK Translation Missing but I can't figure out how to remove them from that list. It seems to be something to do with template usage that I don't understand.

Dieter: Not at all. It is the good old shift+F5 routine (depending on your machine). Flush the cache. Comb formation is still missing the Korean, which is why it remains listed.

Bob: Thanks, Dieter. It worked.

2008 July 27

Velobici: Could a list of book pages not using the Book Template be added to the Library work page ?

unkx80: I guess this would be a feature request for Arno.

PeterHB: I wonder whether the advanced find page could be modified to have templates and their fields in the select and excludes. Sounds like a lot of work, but might be a flexible answer. (Added first attempt at search results to bottom of Velobici home page.)

Velobici: Thank you, that was quick! Removed some non-book pages such as Isumi Shinichiro and moved the list to Library work.

2008 July 14

Velobici: Please review the pages for the first three volumes of the Elementary Go Series (In the Beginning, 38 Basic Joseki, Tesuji). Added sections entitled Reviews, Table of Contents, and Sample Prolbems.

Is this a useful format ?

Is it useful enough to extend to other books ?

PeterHB: My 2 cents. Looking at the specifics of the 3 example pages, this seems fine to me. Go ahead, if it feels right to you.

For the more general case of all the book listings on Sensei's, I think each case should be judged on its own merits. A cookie cutter approach is good for consistency and prompting ideas of what to include. We just want to be careful not to go too far. We want to encourage diverse reviews for instance. Too much standardization may discourage creativity. We want new people with new contributions.

2008 July 4

Velobici: Is there a way to add a table of contents based upon headers without a table of diagrams ? %% TOC %% provides both.

unkx80: Use %% TOC- %%

Velobici: worked beautifully


velobici: Should there be a template for pages about books. the template might have spots for

  • name
  • author
  • name in original language
  • publisher,
  • publication date,
  • ISBN,
  • is the book part of a series,
  • if so what series,
  • sample problems, (if its a problem book)
  • cover photo,
  • book review
  • etc.

unkx80: You can create one if you think it is useful...

Herman Hiddema: I've created one. I think some of the suggested items, like review and sample problems, are best left as normal page content. Tell me what you think!

Velobici: Wonderful...added/changed a couple items. Hope they are improvements. Your thoughts ?

Herman Hiddema: Yes, that is better. I've made another small change as well. Seems like quite a nice useful template now.

Velobici: Agreed! Please take a look at Immediately Helpful Vital Points of Life and Death. That page has three additional sections that might be useful.

2008 June 30

Someone deleted the entire contents of the sandbox. We lost all the greetings in different languages as well as instructions for use of the sandbox. Anyone want to revert it?

PeterHB: Not reverted, but pasted it back. Hope that is close enough to your wish.

2008 June 29

Please correct the formatting instructions displayed in edit mode. Example "!" does not produce a heading, rather "====" is required at the start and the end of the line. There may be other errors as well in the instructions.

2008 May 15

[Diagram]

Disputed Game

Black just took the ko in the lower left. White passed. Black passed.

Is the 2/1 point in the lower left neutral or is it territory?

The game rides on this point; if that point is neutral, black and white are tied.

-Feylias

Bill: It's worse than that. According to the Japanese '89 rules, black+circle is dead, because White to play could take and win the ko when the only ko threat is a pass. Black should reopen play. White can play first, and take the ko back, but Black can then win the ko fight.

Feylias: Just to be sure I understand, when White passed (forced, because recapture's not legal and any other move would cost a point), Black passed (assuming that the game could be safely ended by the double pass), but should have filled, because black+circle could be recaptured by White (if play resumed) and is therefore considered dead even though Black clearly has all the ko threats. Oy. Thank you very much.

Bill: The Japanese '49 rules mandated filling the ko, but were criticized for being ad hoc. The '89 rules get there in a more complicated way. Oy, as you say. ;)

BTW, doesn't Black win anyway? It looks to me like Black has captured 7 more stones than White.



2008 April 23

Check out this baduk ranking website... www.badukrankings.com

2008 April 16

Do we need two pages for a single person ? Should Merlijn Kuin be an alias for Spirit or Spirit an alias for Merlijn Kuin ?

Spirit: one can redirect to the other. I don't really care myself :) But I have no time atm to figure out how to do this.

Herman Hiddema: The idea here is that one is a homepage, while the other is a Sensei's article. The first is someone's personal domain, they can put on it whatever they want and it can be considered rude if someone else drastically alters it. The second is an article by the Sensei's deshis. I've seen edits by roln111, which is the user account of Ilja Shikshin, or edits by breakfast, which is the user account of Alexandre Dinerchtein. There does not necessarily need to be an article as well as a homepage for everyone, but for European top players, I think it is a good idea.

Velobici: Which is the home page and which is the article ? How do we tell...the keyword tag may not be obvious enough to all. Please note that Ilja Shikshin is not a home page and roln111 does not exist at this time. breakfast is a home page with the alias Alexandre Dinerchtein.

2008 April 13

Please restore SomePhilosophicalQuestionsAboutComputersAndGo. There is a bug in GoWiki which has bit me twice now. To trigger the bug, do the following:

  1. view the Recent Changes page
  2. click on the link next to a page title that indicates the number of lines added or deleted
  3. click on edit block
  4. add text to the block
  5. click on ''Preview'
  6. click on Save

2008 March 29

axd: Dear admins, is there any chance to see normal heading tags to be implemented? (see rant)

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