Promoting Go in the UK and beyond

The BGA site index is a proper, human-generated index of all the material on the site. It is maintained by Jochen Fassbender, who provided most of the information below.

To keep the index up to date, it is important to inform Jochen of any changes to indexable material. Normally, changes of that magnitude would also merit being mentioned on the what’s new page, so inform the webmaster, who will update what’s new and inform Jochen at the same time.

Indexable material

The indexer should be informed of all additions, deletions, changes, and updates to:

• all articles in general (including major contributions like handbooks, rules, etc. as well as instalments);
• reviews (books, software, etc.);
• BGA aspects (officers, policies, membership, etc.);
• clubs;
• results and/or reports of individual tournaments and other events;
• BGJ online back issues;
• software items and Go servers; and
• external links (especially on http://www.britgo.org/links/brits.html and http://www.britgo.org/links/others.html).

The general rule when indexing is that a particular chunk of information has to be significant in order to be indexable. Tiny items, or passing mentions in paragraphs, tables, and lists might not get indexed.

Transient information that is not indexed

• most announcements and entry forms of individual tournaments and other events (for an overview see http://www.britgo.org/tournaments/);
• current title-holders (for an overview see http://www.britgo.org/hof/current.html);
• current ratings of individual players (for an overview see http://www.britgo.org/rating/list.html);
• current points of candidate representatives to international events (for an overview see http://www.britgo.org/reps/); and
• recent news items in British Go E-News (for an overview see http://www.britgo.org/news/).