2013/8/20 David Narvaez david.narvaez@computer.org
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Peter Ekman pdekman@gmail.com wrote:
B) Will it be able to handle 1,000 entries per day? Or a better
question -
What will it take to make it work well with 1,000 entries per day?
- technically, I'd think one upload (perhaps of just one day's worth of
entries each day) would seem to be needed. If each reviewer needs to
upload
30,000 images each time they use it, it could be pretty difficult.
Well, nothing is really uploaded to the tool, but some database entries (and 1,000 db entries are manageable, probably with some tweaks I have in mind), but I think this question is oriented towards the "rate as you go" mode you mention later, is that right?
-technically, can it be set so that new images (or perhaps randomly
selected
images) are judged by different reviewers. We wouldn't want the same 500 images being at the front of the line that get judged by 10 different people, but the other 29,500 don't get seen at all.
That is what the configurations for policy of the round are for: With a "All photos are reviewed exactly once" policy, no photo is ever served to two different juries, with a "All photos are reviewed by at least x juries" all photos are also reviewed, and more than once.
-sociologically, how to deal with folks who go through and select the
photos
they uploaded and rate poorly other very good photos (gaming)?
This would only apply to Open rounds and has no way to be fixed. Invitational rounds, on the other hand, would require juries to be pre-approved by the organizers of the contest, and that means the organizers won't put a jury that uploaded a photo.
-what happens to photos not rated in cases there are too many photos and
not
enough reviewers? Are they just left behind?
Haven't thought of that. In my small head all photos have to be reviewed.
Would this be solved if you start at a random point in the review list rather than always at the beginning? Then every jury member would start somewhere else, and the odds of images having zero reviews is minimized.
-is "rate as you go" a possibility, or would you have to wait until the
end
of the contest?
Good question. The tool is not really designed for that, but could be extended to support this. I'd like to hear other opininos about this.
I think if you allow feeding multiple txt files through the contest (taking out doublures) that might work?
-presentation, could you include a box where the local designer (who
selects
the various options) explains how they work, i.e. what are the mechanics
for
a photo to get to the next round.
That's doable, and shouldn't be too hard. I would only need help with the wording (see the other thread about design).
I think if you just present this as an option, you could have this as an empty text box in the configuration, and let the configurer worry about the wording (and language).
A question of my own: what happens if an image gets renamed/deleted. Will the tool be able to handle that?
Lodewijk