community test result web page?

[mjlef]

I think this is a good idea. It could be expanded to be a complete source of theory. For instance, in the null move page, we could quote the old post of Christophe Theron about the Null Move Observation. We could link his name to a page about him, his engine, and other ideas he might have talked about. If many people contribute to this, we could have a quite nice little site. And as it pertains to the original post, we could have a results section on each page, where different authors can describe their implementations and the outcome.

yes indeed. Some people have put together some of this information before, but the wiki lets anyone correct add and clarify it. So start editing away! Don Dailey just joined the wiki too.


I will try to add basic bages each day for a few weeks to fluff out the site outline. I encourage anyone who wants to join to start editing with me. Right now, I am requiring people sign up, just to prevent robots from trashing the wiki like so many other have done to others in the past.

Mark

[Jacob]

This all sounds like a good idea =), I'll help in any way that I can.

[Zach Wegner]

I think this should be expanded beyond programming. For instance, I just created a page about the xboard protocol. We could have a page for xboard itself, as well as its spinoffs (winboard_x, winboard_f). Then we could have pages about other GUIs. We could then have pages for the testing groups. Why not have pages for famous contributors to computer chess? There is a lot of room for expansion.

Some other things I think might be important:
A nice logo
A coherent layout: Each page should have contents (if long enough), pictures, code examples, and on the side a topic listing. If you look at say http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus you can see the contents as well as a "Topics in Calculus" table on the right. This latter part could be used to separate the sections, like "Topics in Evaluation."
Code--should we use pseudocode, real C code, or what? This should be uniform throughout the pages.

[mjlef]

I agree. If someone with a bit better eye for design than me can come up with a few templates, that would be great.

I think either C pr pseudo code is fine, just as long as it is explained well. It is the idea that counts.

[mageofmaple]

I don't seem to be able to edit - the page shows 'protected', even after I log in.

[Zach Wegner]

I don't seem to be able to edit - the page shows 'protected', even after I log in.

You have to join the group first, and the request must be approved. Maybe you just joined wikispaces?

[mageofmaple]

I don't seem to be able to edit - the page shows 'protected', even after I log in.

You have to join the group first, and the request must be approved. Maybe you just joined wikispaces?

Ahhh... Yup, that would explain it

[Michael Sherwin]

OK, I found some free wikis sites that host and everything. I setup a starter here:

http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/

and a sample page here:

http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/ ... ve+Pruning

where I put in an idea I tested last night.

Please consider a 'chess programming book' section, just for tried and true chess programming methods that work for almost all chess programs so that newbs (and me ) do not get lost in a mass of confusing, contradictory, counterproductive information. I personally can add many pages of ideas that only work for my program and will not work for others and I am sure that others can and will do the same. I think that a 'book' section could prevent a lot of harm from being done.

[mjlef]

A lot of talented people have joined. I made several people "Organizers" which can approve people. Now that there are several of them, approvals should happen a bit faster. It would be nice to get rid of the need to approve people who want to edit, but most wikis seems to get trashed as soon as that it done by advertising robots. Note that anyone can view the wiki...approval is only needed for people wishing to contribute. I just backed up the wiki, and will do that regularly.

So far, we have 22 pages with a lot of great information from a bunch of people. People are really gettign behind this and organizing a lot of information, but we can always use more people.