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Re: @CPW contributors

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Completely 100% fair.

Lesson Learned: when building a website (or other project) on which multiple people are involved, make sure that all contributors are able to communicate with everyone else, and that multiple people have admin keys.

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Graham Banks wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:06 am
smatovic wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:52 am Hi Shawn,

I can not tell, I was invited by Gerd Isenberg to CPW to work on the GPU article, Gerd is since mid-2022 not active anymore, and I have no admin rights to add or invite other users to that MediaWiki.

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I thought he had died?
Do you have any official source?

Otherwise, I guess (and hope) it is not.

About a year ago, I was worried much about his sudden silence and tried all the ways I could to search and contact him, just to know if he was OK. Then he replied that he was fine and attending a bike tour around Germany. Thus I think he was tired and might quit chess.

Just let him alone!
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Re: @CPW contributors

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phhnguyen wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 12:04 pm
Graham Banks wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:06 am
smatovic wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:52 am Hi Shawn,

I can not tell, I was invited by Gerd Isenberg to CPW to work on the GPU article, Gerd is since mid-2022 not active anymore, and I have no admin rights to add or invite other users to that MediaWiki.

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Srdja
I thought he had died?
Do you have any official source?

Otherwise, I guess (and hope) it is not.

About a year ago, I was worried much about his sudden silence and tried all the ways I could to search and contact him, just to know if he was OK. Then he replied that he was fine and attending a bike tour around Germany. Thus I think he was tired and might quit chess.

Just let him alone!
Hopefully that's the case. I wasn't meaning any disrespect.
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Re: @CPW contributors

Post by smatovic »

Found a list of added users since the migration in 2018:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Special:Log/newusers

Soepel (team SF) has an account, Crem (team Lc0) has an account, Ed Schroeder (see sticky post in main forum) has an account, I can not help if people are not interested in maintaining at least the articles of their own engines....or CPW as a whole.

Seems members of core team are Mark Lefler, Gerd Isenberg and Erik Satie. Gerd is since mid-2022 not active, AFAIK Mark Lefler (with Larry Kaufman) will retire 2025 from Komodo Chess.

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Graham Banks wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:06 am
smatovic wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:52 am Hi Shawn,

I can not tell, I was invited by Gerd Isenberg to CPW to work on the GPU article, Gerd is since mid-2022 not active anymore, and I have no admin rights to add or invite other users to that MediaWiki.

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Gerd Isenberg wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 10:26 pm
Graham Banks wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:06 am
smatovic wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:52 am Hi Shawn,

I can not tell, I was invited by Gerd Isenberg to CPW to work on the GPU article, Gerd is since mid-2022 not active anymore, and I have no admin rights to add or invite other users to that MediaWiki.

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I thought he had died?
Nope, still alive and riding my ebike.
Great to hear. Sorry about my perhaps thinking otherwise. :)
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I have access to CPW since I gave my small contributions on the Perry results page.

If there’s anything in particular I can do to improve or increase the quality of CPW I’m happy to do it, as long as I have the competence for it
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Re: @CPW contributors

Post by smatovic »

alessandro wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 3:09 pm ...
I suggested to divide topics/engines amongst contributors, thus, just pick a topic that suits you and you are interested in? In the end it is a hobby and we want to have good time, or alike.

Shawn Xu started to update search related articles (probably partially taken from CPW 2.0):

https://www.chessprogramming.org/index. ... &limit=500

There must be other active computer chess programmers/contributors out there, maybe they can join CPW too and revive it?

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Re: @CPW contributors

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I am not aware of a CPW contributions guideline, but here the five pillars of Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

I think the neutral aspect is important in context of engines and people, the difference of "descriptive, normative, evaluative" writing comes up in my mind.

And, when writing on article I perform a mind-game, to be able to give for every statement a reference, then consider if reference is necessary or not.

And here a reminder to myself (I am not a native English speaker, a lot of typos and bad wording) to cross-check my typing and wording before publishing.

Further note, CPW content is currently under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Something like this. Idk what the CPW core team considers as CPW guideline. Maybe one of the core members can create an contribution guide article?

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smatovic wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 4:01 pm I am not aware of a CPW contributions guideline, but here the five pillars of Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

I think the neutral aspect is important in context of engines and people, the difference of "descriptive, normative, evaluative" writing comes up in my mind.

And, when writing on article I perform a mind-game, to be able to give for every statement a reference, then consider if reference is necessary or not.

And here a reminder to myself (I am not a native English speaker, a lot of typos and bad wording) to cross-check my typing and wording before publishing.

Further note, CPW content is currently under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Something like this. Idk what the CPW core team considers as CPW guideline. Maybe one of the core members can create an contribution guide article?

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Someone should let wikipedia know about their own 5 pillars:
> Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
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