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sharadmv

Hello everyone. I realize I've been very much disconnected from the quizbowl community for the past couple of years and I've been neglecting to update/fix QuizbowlDB for a while now. I would like to make one last big update and fix most if not all of the major bugs in one go before I officially reti...

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Hi guys, I've been a bit swamped this semester with schoolwork and I haven't had time to update the site. I will make sure it will stay running in its current version though and make sure it stays online. If anyone would like to take over and try updating the site and fixing bugs, that would be amaz...

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I've had a bit of time and I've started uploading some new tournaments and I added back advanced search.

Let me know if there are bugs.

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The reason I haven't released multiplayer yet is for scalability issues. I'm still trying to optimize a lot of things. I'll hopefully release it by July.

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Thanks A TON to PACE for doing this!

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Was doing maintenance, but it should work now.
What version of FF are you using?

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Hello, Thanks everyone for using Quizbowl DB so much. We now have almost 37000 buzzes on questions and over 200 users! I can safely say that I have accumulated a lot of statistics. Now the time has come for a ratings/leaderboard formula, so I would like to ask everyone to help with this effort. Info...

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Hello all,
Just added IE 7+ support for Quizbowl DB

http://www.quizbowldb.com

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I do plan on adding all those features back to the site.

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Firefox should be fine.haven't tested opera though

sharadmv

Greetings! Finally, a new (stable) site is ready for release! It is located at http://www.quizbowldb.com . YES! A DOMAIN NAME! It is still under construction, as the multiplayer has not yet been completed. However, I will be working hard to finish that over the upcoming weeks. New Features: 1. New N...

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Just wanted to say that OCF will be very flaky. I am currently creating a more stable site to hopefully release this weekend.

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I am currently building the website with a more stable framework. It most definitely will not crash anymore. I'll let you guys know when it's done.

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Hello all, Just wanted to explain what was going on with the site. Disclaimer: this will be very techy. I've been using a node.js server backend to send JSONP back and forth for the single player reader and the database. This is extremely stable and really, no matter what you do there, the server wo...

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The continue button should work now and I'll work on getting TP back up today. Thanks for all the feedback!

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For your quizbowl needs: http://qbcentral.appspot.com/index.html

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Interestingly, this would actually be Berkeley doing some maintenance on their own servers. This one is out of my hands. Hopefully it will be done today. I'll keep you guys posted. Another option is that I can put it on a temporary site. I'll try that a bit later today if OCF is not back up.

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All right. Quizbowl Central is back up!

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Doing some maintenance. I'll let you know when it gets back up.

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I've fixed the word forms and punctuation answer checking errors. Please tell me if there are still problems.

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If you get the timeout error, that means that most probably, the server has crashed from overload. I just restarted the server so you can try out the site again. As you all have probably noticed, the server can't handle too many people. I plan to get a new one.

sharadmv

Sorry about the current unreliability of the site. I will fix this.

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Check out the post called "Quizbowl Central." Hopefully that will solve your problem.

sharadmv

Hello everyone, I just wanted to announce a new version of the Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database called Quizbowl Central . New features include a more efficient server, faster search, upgraded reader, and MULTIPLAYER! Please read through all the changes before you use it!!!! Here are the specific chang...

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I'm not sure how feasible this is, but if you could hook into the Search API for something like Google or Bing you could potentially leverage their vast database of spell checking to be more lenient about misspelled answers. Good idea. Also, what's the logic behind using String.Contains rather than...

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I thought of using the "flagging" method but decided not to because it would require a lot of work to go back and correct any mistakes the flag will have changed. Flagging would also require a lot more maintenance. The current site does use String.contains, but the new site will add that e...

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The problem is that I haven't thought of a foolproof way of checking if a question is right or wrong. It's hard to emulate the judgement of a moderator. Any ideas?

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Sorry everyone, the site seems to be down. I'll try to get it up and running ASAP.

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Is it complete overlap or are there unique questions or do some encompass the others?

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Hey,

Does anyone know which HSAPQ tournaments that have been released online overlap (ie VHSL Districts and Tournament 17) and which would be considered encompassing? I'm trying to avoid duplicates.

sharadmv

Hey Lucas,

Can I contact you somehow about this answer regex stuff? I've been trying to think of a good way to detect if an answer is correct, and manually inputting regex seems like it would take forever to do all the questions.

Wanna talk about some other ideas using your regex?

sharadmv

Hey guys, Sorry for not posting in more than 6 months. I've actually been working a newer, better version of the website that's getting close to release. I'll put the link up here when it's done and create a redirect from the tpclubs site, since it's on a different url. Note that the added features ...

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Hello, just a quick update: I added a leaderboard to the interface under the tab "Statistics". You can click on a name on the leaderboard to display pie charts of their buzzes. I also conducted a minor stats reset. This might have removed you from the leaderboard, but you can get back on b...

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I'm going to be working on fixing answer detection. Just a quick question, does anyone know of an ideal formula for determining the leaderboard ranking? Right now, it's (Average correct buzzes)/(# of correct buzzes) and whoever has the lower score is ranked higher. I was thinking that I should take ...

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Here's a link to a preliminary leaderboard type page before I integrate it into the interface:
http://quizbowl.tpclubs.com/viewStats.php

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It seems to be working for me and some other people who have tried it. Is this happening to anyone else?

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Hello everyone, I just added the logging in and score tracking features to the interface. You first have to go to the login tab, then create an account (theres no encryption on the password or anything, so create at your own risk), log in, then read questions as normal. The answer checking system ha...

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I added the ability to have tossups you've searched read by clicking the "Read # Results" link next to the Download one. I also added in the checkbox thing that Justin requested.

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I noticed a new tab today - Score Tracker - and created an account. What features will it have? I know people had mentioned tracking buzz location and similar things... Whoops, didn't mean to upload that yet. It's not working, but I'm working on it. I plan to add a system of logging in, tracking wh...

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I'm using GWT for the interface.

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It's a Java parser that extracts questions from .pdf, .doc, .docx, and .rtf packets that are close to ACF Packet guidelines and populates a MySQL database, which is queried with php. Also, I just recently fixed a big bug that actually automatically marked you wrong if there were any capital letters ...

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The interface allows you to fix the category if it's incorrect. In every tab but the Read To Me! tab, you can manipulate the result by clicking on the category (which is underlined and in curly brackets) and a dropdown will appear, and selecting a new category will change it. Further uploaded packet...

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The reason a lot of answers are being ruled incorrect is because right now the answer checking is solely based on whether the input string is contained in the original tossup answer string. This causes one-character differences to be ruled incorrect and will also cause prompts to be accepted. For no...

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Multiple words should definitely be working. Can you tell me what's happening?

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ALSO could it be done so that you can play straight through a packet and/or play bonuses? Bonuses are going to be the next big thing I'm going to work on, but that won't probably come for a while. The checkbox thing and playing through a packet I can get to sooner. Just a quick note: There's an opt...

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Hello everyone, I don't know exactly where to post this, but here we go: Starting last summer, I started creating a quizbowl question parser that has now evolved into a database with a web interface. The parser takes packets in either .pdf, .doc, or .rtf format and extracts the tossups from them. It...

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I see the ppb was fixed.

What exactly was the error?

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Stats can be found here: Prelims: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org=sharadmv&id=1&page=standings Playoffs: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org=sharadmv&id=2&page=standings Combined: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org=sharadmv&id=3&page=standings Thanks to all the ...

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So far, only Santa Fe Christian has registered.

I'll update the field in the main post when there are more registrations.

sharadmv

Hello everybody!

I just wanted to send a reminder that the tournament date (2/5/2011) is coming up and that if you wish to participate, you should register as soon as possible.

The registration deadline will be 2/2, the Wednesday before the tournament date.

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