Wiki Competition Dec 06

[W1zzard]

Every month from now on we will hold a Wiki Competition.

A Wiki is a website that every user on the internet can contribute to, without special qualification or signup.
We have recently launched our Reference Wiki (http://reference.techpowerup.com) which we hope can act as a useful reference for computer knowledge.

Based on the overall contribution of users, the techPowerUp! Staff will pick five winners.

Prizes


$150
$100
$75
$50
$25


All prizes will be sent via Paypal. If you absolutely can't get a Paypal account for legal reasons, we will figure out a way to get the money to you.

Rules

This month's competition starts today and ends on January 15th 2007.
Everybody is eligible to participate, including techPowerUp! Staff, excluding W1zzard.
The five winners will be picked at the sole discretion of techPowerUp! Staff, based on quality and quantity of content.
You are free to pick any topic to write about, the idea behind the Wiki is to offer a broad range of knowledge about computers. You pick what you want to write about, as long as it is computer related.
Please do not copy and paste from other websites.
Fixing other people's spelling, grammar, layout does count as contribution and will be considered.
Adding additional information to an existing article counts as contribution as well. The Wiki automatically keeps track of which user added/changed/deleted which part of the article.
Please do not deface or otherwise harm the Wiki and the other posters.
Violation of these rules could lead to a warning, disqualification from the competition or ban from editing the Wiki.
In order to participate you must register an account with the Wiki.
The winners will be contacted after the competition is over. As winner, only your nickname and prize information will be released to the public.
TechPowerUp! shall not accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by you or any other participant entering the Competition or as a result of accepting any prize. TechPowerUp! is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telecommunications network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other person's computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the competition. TechPowerUp! also reserves the right to change or amend the Rules if necessary.


Feel free to ask any questions you may have in this thread.

[pt]

put the link in here when you cna w1z ;)

[W1zzard]

which link?

edit: frontpage news post added

[pt]

can someone explain how to post something :o :o

[W1zzard]

http://reference.techpowerup.com/TPU_Reference:Quick_Start

quick start article i'm writing right now

added video tutorial

[newtekie1]

Question about the rules: Is it ok to copy from another website if you are the original author of the content? Like could I just copy stuff off my personal website that I wrote?

[W1zzard]

Question about the rules: Is it ok to copy from another website if you are the original author of the content? Like could I just copy stuff off my personal website that I wrote?

yep thats fine

[WarEagleAU]

supremo!

[Nyte]

Very good contest :) And we also learn things too!

[Track]

Wait, so u want us to actually WRITE DOWN every piece of information abt PCs in the world?

Thats crazy.. it would take weeks to write every single article.

[Easy Rhino]

Wait, so u want us to actually WRITE DOWN every piece of information abt PCs in the world?

Thats crazy.. it would take weeks to write every single article.

write what you know about!

[DanTheBanjoman]

I'm adding some stubs so people get an idea of topics to write about. Of course I will fill them up myself as well over time.



Also mr W1z, can you add an option to show/hide stubs? And show only stubs. If people feel like writing they could select "show only stubs" and they get a list of stuff to write about.

Nm the last comment, stubs is a category, search them that way.

[Jimmy 2004]

Nice idea W1zz - the Wiki wasn't getting quite as much input as it should've been.

[Track]

write what you know about!

It would take weeks to write down everything u know.. This is totally insane, who has time to sit and write down entire articled from scratch out of their head??

[Jimmy 2004]

It would take weeks to write down everything u know.. This is totally insane, who has time to sit and write down entire articled from scratch out of their head??

Plenty of people - if you don't want to, no one is going to make you. But a lot of people enjoy writing about topics of their interest in order to help others. There is no need to write an entire article at once, nor do you need to write long articles, short guides about a specific subject are also useful.

[DanTheBanjoman]

It would take weeks to write down everything u know.. This is totally insane, who has time to sit and write down entire articled from scratch out of their head??

If you don't get the idea behind a Wiki, fine. If you feel it's totally pointless, that's your loss. Here at TechPowerUp! we want to create a community, a wiki is a nice addition to that. Sharing our knowledge and helping eachother out is why we are here.
If you don't want to help nobody is forcing you to, but your complaining is of no value at all to us.

Though if you want to understand the idea behind a wiki you could take a look at wikipedia for instance.

[n-sanity]

My absolutely ultimate fan guide :D

http://reference.techpowerup.com/Fans

Everything you need to know. Is there an action we have to perform to submit our contribution, or does the wiki track that ???

Also, great thing we have a wiki - with this many members, it has a good chance of growing to collosal proportions.

[W1zzard]

wiki tracks everything you could ever want :)

[XooM]

what about those of us who have already written some pretty extensive articles? :)

[W1zzard]

what about those of us who have already written some pretty extensive articles? :)

gave you a brownie point

[XooM]

mmmh, brownies!!! :)

[DanTheBanjoman]

gave you a brownie point

That sounds homosexual somehow...

[W1zzard]

lol
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=brownie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

even though lore has it that it could also come from sticking up your nose someone's brownie :)

http://img.techpowerup.org/061213/Capture112.gif
ummm :rolleyes:

[DanTheBanjoman]

sticking up your nose someone's brownie :)

Q: Wat is het verschil tussen een duitser en een homo?
A: Een duitser poept in het ruhrgebied en een homo roert in het poepgebied.

For the Dutch readers amongst us, a real classic.

[newtekie1]

lol
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=brownie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

even though lore has it that it could also come from sticking up your nose someone's brownie :)

http://img.techpowerup.org/061213/Capture112.gif
ummm :rolleyes:

While that is bad, I still think this is worse.

[DanTheBanjoman]

While that is bad, I still think this is worse.

Jesus was a black man, and Jesus loves us doesn't he? Sounds pretty solid to me.

[Jimmy 2004]

W1zz, this isn't totally related but it's the best place I could find to post it:

The guide on windows startup seems to be duplicating itself for some reason, under two different guides but I think if you change one it edits both.

http://img.techpowerup.org/061213/wtf943.jpg

I'm not sure why it's happening, but it seems to stay even if you take away the tags at the bottom saying which catagory it is in. :confused:

Edit: it only happens in the "Software" section, not in the guides section.

[W1zzard]

fixed, the & and the "s confused the wiki it seems

[W1zzard]

quick update on the current standings:

Tied for first place: DanTheBanjoman, Xoom
Tied for second place: MagiKazoc, N-sanity, Newtekie1

[XooM]

im bound to run out of knowledge soon :)

[W1zzard]

lots of knowledge on the internet .. i found researching a certain topic to be quite interesting and rewarding

[Easy Rhino]

i know we arent supposed to cut and paste but wikipedia already has 99 percent of all this information!

[pt]

i know we arent supposed to cut and paste but wikipedia already has 99 percent of all this information!

true
can we copy paste the specs of motherboards from the makers site? :)

[DanTheBanjoman]

i know we arent supposed to cut and paste but wikipedia already has 99 percent of all this information!

Wikipedia has very global information, our wiki is aimed at this community, modders, tweakers, gamers etc. You can't find much about specific hardware or overclocking/mods/etc on wikipedia, that will be the value of our wiki.

[W1zzard]

maybe motherboard specs should be brought into a common format so it's easier for people to find the interesting stuff?

[W1zzard]

http://www.digg.com/hardware/Computer_Reference_Wiki_launched

please digg, so we can spread the word

[cdawall]

what im not even on the list?

[Migons]

What about if someone does, for example grammar correction, multiple very small contributions, but other one would do the same contributions as one time? The first one has more contributions, but the both have written the same amount of text? Does this give advantage to "multi-contributor"?

|EDIT| I think it's sad too that there are some pages which include completely copy-pasted paragraphs from Wikipedia.. :( Are people just that unable to write something using their own words, even if the content would be borrowed from somewhere else?

[W1zzard]

What about if someone does, for example grammar correction, multiple very small contributions, but other one would do the same contributions as one time? The first one has more contributions, but the both have written the same amount of text? Does this give advantage to "multi-contributor"?

no it doesnt. this is not an automated system we are using. someone look at _all_ the changes


|EDIT| I think it's sad too that there are some pages which include completely copy-pasted paragraphs from Wikipedia.. :( Are people just that unable to write something using their own words, even if the content would be borrowed from somewhere else?

flag stuff as {{disputed}}

[ex_reven]

how do you like my networking article so far???

http://reference.techpowerup.com/Networking

btw, when does the "This article is a stub. You can help us by expanding it." go away lol.

[cdawall]

how do you like my networking article so far???

http://reference.techpowerup.com/Networking

btw, when does the "This article is a stub. You can help us by expanding it." go away lol.

you take it off it is at the bottom of teh edit page looks like this {{stub}} just delete it

[ex_reven]

yeah i noticed while editing lol...should have reposted

[DanTheBanjoman]

|EDIT| I think it's sad too that there are some pages which include completely copy-pasted paragraphs from Wikipedia.. :( Are people just that unable to write something using their own words, even if the content would be borrowed from somewhere else?

I agree. Personally I prefer to write my own bullshit and let others extent it. That way the information will represent this community over time. Copy/paste should give negative points. And if you really have to copy something, quote it.

I might not write the best stuff, but at least I write everything myself and write what I think is important for the readers. For example I don't think the amount of offices or financial status of a company is relevant for users of the TPU community. I think the ability to overclock or mod specific hardware of a certain type is relevant though.

Then again people can write what they want, W1zzard will eventually show us the way it should be done by rewarding the people who write the most useful things.

[ex_reven]

Personally I prefer to write my own bullshit and let others extent it.

Good on ya :)

[W1zzard]

[[Image:sticker.jpg|thumbnail|Sticker on G.SKILL Memory]]

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files
good read

you can always check other pages "edit" to see how stuff is done in wiki code

[Canuto]

I just did Pipeline :)

[newtekie1]

I'm sure I am not in second anymore, I wish I wasn't so busy at work so I could make some money! Wait...

[DanTheBanjoman]

I'm sure I am not in second anymore, I wish I wasn't so busy at work so I could make some money! Wait...

How do you know? Where is it listed?

[W1zzard]

current rankings. names on the same line have the same "scores"

Verikon
AthlonX2
XooM. DanTheBanjoman, Newtekie1, MagiKazoc
D_o_S, Ex_reven, Migons. N-sanity, Random_Murderer, R_Landgren

[XooM]

awwww... i fell down a bunch. not surprising though, i haven't exactly had a lot of time as of late (and i'm running out of knowledge :) )

[Canuto]

current rankings. names on the same line have the same "scores"

Verikon
AthlonX2
XooM. DanTheBanjoman, Newtekie1, MagiKazoc
D_o_S, Ex_reven, Migons. N-sanity, Random_Murderer, R_Landgren

Where's W1zzard? :rolleyes:
I know he can't compete for the money but I'm pretty sure he has a score too :p

[W1zzard]

the list is not automatically generated .. so i'm not on the list

[Verikon]

You probably noticed I flagged a ton of articles as plagiarism yesterday/this morning. The majority of AthlonX2s stuff was just copy pasted from wikipedia. I don't really want to be a party pooper or anything...

Don't know what procedure you want to follow on that W1z; whether to leave them intact for now with disputed marker, or just delete the contents. I've started rewriting a few of them (eVGA & Seagate), but there are still tons that are blatant copies.

Oh, and I want to thank DanTheBanjoman for replying to my discussions and answering my questions! I really appreciate it, makes this feel like a community.

[W1zzard]

let them disputed for now and hope someone changes them

[Aegis]

So any points we earn today still counts toward this month's competition or next? And who's the winner :P?

[newtekie1]

I bet I am not even in the top 5 anymore thanks to being too busy at work. Oh well...

[Verikon]

I bet I am not even in the top 5 anymore thanks to being too busy at work. Oh well...

Yeah, being back in school has pretty much consumed all my spare time since last week.

[pt]

Yeah, being back in school has pretty much consumed all my spare time since last week.

me 2 :(

[XooM]

If I'm still in the running, I'll want to donate my winnings (though I'm not sure to whom yet), since I don't have a paypal account and don't really want one :)

[newtekie1]

If I'm still in the running, I'll want to donate my winnings (though I'm not sure to whom yet), since I don't have a paypal account and don't really want one :)

Dips! :D

[pt]

If I'm still in the running, I'll want to donate my winnings (though I'm not sure to whom yet), since I don't have a paypal account and don't really want one :)

donate to the: buy cdawall a mobo foundation :p

[W1zzard]

Competition over:

the winners are:

$150: Verikon. sent
$100: Newtekie1. sent
$75: Xoom sent
$50: DanTheBanjoman. sent
$25: MagiKazoc

Please PM me your paypal address for transferring the money.

AthlonX2 was disqualified for posting a large number of plagiarized content.

[Verikon]

Congrats all! This was a lot of fun. Hope we can keep up the good work

[Aegis]

Is there gonna be a competition for next month? I didn't get to participate this time around :(.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Is there gonna be a competition for next month? I didn't get to participate this time around :(.

You're always welcome to write in the wiki, competition or not.


And thank you mr W1zzard, it'll go towards my Xeon fundings :P

Or perhaps I'll blow it on a whore...

[W1zzard]

yeah a new competition will run from 15th of jan till 15th of march

[DanTheBanjoman]

If I'm still in the running, I'll want to donate my winnings (though I'm not sure to whom yet), since I don't have a paypal account and don't really want one :)

Bank transfer can be done as well. Will just take a bit longer to transfer. If is too lazy that I could forward it via Paypal to my bank to your bank, omg that's complicated but works.
Or if you insist on donating, I'd say think of something TPU related to spend it on.

[D_o_S]

Congratulations to all the winners!

[Aegis]

yeah a new competition will run from 15th of jan till 15th of march

A special 2-month long contest :p?

[W1zzard]

considering the number of updates this sounds just fair to me .. not many people are participating in this

[Aegis]

Maybe starting a new thread would attract more attention to the new contest. I'm not sure people are aware that this contest is a reoccuring event. And how do you report spam on the wiki?

[W1zzard]

just edit the spammed page and remove the text

[Zero Cool]

any chance of there being a image editing contest?

[Aegis]

So who won?

[Aegis]

Anyone!?

[RORO]

Ha Dat Funny

[Aegis]

Ok this is plain unfair. I spent hours working on the wiki and I've even PMed W1zzard to look at this topic, so I can only conclude that he doesn't want to pay up >:(.

[pt]

Ok this is plain unfair. I spent hours working on the wiki and I've even PMed W1zzard to look at this topic, so I can only conclude that he doesn't want to pay up >:(.

is prob busy

[ex_reven]

if noone else contributed he probably killed the contest

you cant expect the poor guy to pay you if he doesnt get much out of it.

[nflesher87]

We going to revive this?

[effmaster]

We going to revive this?

I sure hope so

[cdawall]

its a good idea to :)

[Jimmy 2004]

Ok people, I've cleaned up the Guides and General Computing articles so that the spam is gone. Unfortunately there is still lots left in the remaining sections (people generally just posting one word at the start). I will work on cleaning the rest, but I could really use some help for this if anyone would be kind enough. Please post any sections that you clean here so that other users know not to bother with them.

Thanks, Jimmy

[BloodTotal]

can you add a monitor section? kk.

[candle_86]

ive wrote geforce 3 and 4 working on geforce 2, feel free to add to my work. I also added some to the geforce256 stub, feel free to edit as im not that great with wiki lol

[candle_86]

well before yall jump all over me and my geforce charts lol, im working on writing the Geforce 256-6 articiles and starting with a simple chart for each gen, those are not copied from wikipedia, the data from there is used, but its numbers, and everyplace has the same lol, so please dont flag it as a dispute, once i get a day off again those articles will really begin to take shape