[Retros] Building a complete and friendly retro library

[Otto Janko]

Dear Andrey,


> For example, Nikita Plaksin came up with dozens 

> of terms back in the 1960s-1980s which are widely used in 

> Russian and Ukrainian publications and which often do not 

> have direct analogues in the West. 


Each glossary page should include a table of alias names in as many
languages as possible. This is quite common in the Wikipedia. The main page
should be in English, and for the aliases we can create "forwards" to the
main page. This means that all names are includes in the main index (not
only visible in the full text search).

I think we should be very careful setting up the example/template page to
cover all these issues. 


> I included explanations of 

> a lot of such terms/concepts in the Dictionary of Chess 

> Composition Terms published by Mark Basisty; unfortunately, 

> that book remains in Russian only.


Maybe you can contribute some of them to the Retro Wiki?  :-)

And, btw: A reference to this book should be included in the booklist!
http://retrowiki.janko.at/index.php/Books

A first WikiMedia primer is available at
http://retrowiki.janko.at/index.php/Help:Primer
http://retrowiki.janko.at/index.php/Help:Contents

~ÔttÔ~





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> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:43 AM

> To: Otto Janko

> Subject: Re: [Retros] Building a complete and friendly retro library

> 

> Dear Roberto, dear all,

> The idea of a retro-wiki is highly inspiring. Indeed, we 

> should start with something relatively simple. As to records 

> – surely chess composition is more than “merely” art; 

> traditions of mathematics-related records date back to many 

> decades ago; it would be ill-advised to impose a ban on them. 

> There is nothing wrong about people wondering e.g. what is 

> the shortest way to mate with a bishop in a SPG. As to the 

> word “best” – this one is quite suitable for being banned, as 

> far as any esthetic aspect is involved, no matter how small 

> or trivial it may be. Retroanalysis is, in a way, magic; and 

> we won’t try to determine the best magician among us, will we?

> One of the issues to be dealt with consists in differences in 

> terminology. For example, Nikita Plaksin came up with dozens 

> of terms back in the 1960s-1980s which are widely used in 

> Russian and Ukrainian publications and which often do not 

> have direct analogues in the West. I included explanations of 

> a lot of such terms/concepts in the Dictionary of Chess 

> Composition Terms published by Mark Basisty; unfortunately, 

> that book remains in Russian only.

> Yours,

> Andrey

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