Jul 8, 2012 – New Features
Two changes to help with determining previous usage of entries:
- All thumbnails now link to the original image and display the full image path as a tooltip.
- A new tab, File Names, has been added to the contestant page. This is a full single-page listing of the file names of all entries and the contest they were used in. The file names themselves are also links to the original image.
May 7, 2012 – New Features
- The weekly reports that I used to post here are now online and accessible via the Contestants/Reports menu. Reports have been expanded to include the top 100 contestants in each category and contain all of the rankings of the previous version plus a few new ones (17 categories altogether) across 3 different time periods.
- Rankings for each of the categories represented on the Contestant Reports page appear on the individual contestant pages. This gives you a quick way of viewing where you stand in all categories (or if you’re not in the top 100 for a category).
Mar 31, 2012 – New Feature & Feature Change
- The definition of “Sliding Quarter” has been changed to be 13 instead of 12. The SQ is now truly 1/4th of the SY. SQ stats have been recalculated to reflect this change.
- Normalized Place: NP ranking and stats have been added for all entries and contestants, including a new “Sorted by NP” tab on the contestant page. See the front page for the definition of NP and the full list of changes in the What’s New section.
Jan 27, 2012 – New Feature
Contest Index: The main page and the Contests:Index/Search menu now link to a listing of all contests. It’s crude and a huge wall of text, but it is comprehensive. Context Index
Sep 30, 2011 – New Feature
Newb & LTNS tabs: There are two new tabs to welcome new entrants and welcome back those who haven’t entered in 6 months or more (long time no sees – LTNS). All contests have been updated with these lists. If the tab isn’t visible, then there are no entrants of that type for this contest.
The Newbs tab lists all entrants for which this is their first contest.
The Kotters tab lists all entrants for which their most recent contest was 6 months or more ago. What’s a Kotter, you ask? It’s someone that we welcome back, of course (Wikipedia for reference for those who need it). Lame, I know. But I did solicit possible names for this group and got no feedback, so left to my own devices, lame is what you get. 😉
Aug 25, 2011 – New Feature
Scarlet R’s: There’s a new tab on the contest page called “Scarlet R’s” that contains a list of the potential reposts for the active contest. The tab is only displayed for the active contest (and only while it’s active) and only when there are scarlet R’s to report (so it’s likely that you won’t see it much). The report itself displays the username and thumbnails for both the current and original entries with links to those entries on the Fark contest pages.
Aug 21, 2011 – New Features
- Navigation Menu: It’s still pretty sparse (Home & Most Recent are the only working links), but no more placeholder! Note: If the menu shows in gray instead of the blue scheme, refresh your browser.
- Random Gallery: Part of the nav menu is a gallery showing 4 random images. The gallery automatically refreshes every 30 seconds.
- Resized to accomodate smaller screens: The minimum screen width is now 1280. Everything should display properly without a horizontal scrollbar at this width or larger.
- Sorting options moved to tabs: As a result of supporting smaller screen sizes, it was necessary to move the sort options to tabs. A benefit of this is that tabs are “sticky”, so if you’re on a particular tab and scroll to another contest, that same tab is displayed. The last tab selected is always remembered and will still be selected when next you visit that page.
While it might not look like it, this update involved a ton of changes, so if you find a problem, please let me know.
Aug 5, 2011 – Minor Updates
- Copied filters (sort by/paging) to the bottom of the contest & user pages to prevent having to scroll home to page.
- Added new “sort by” type of “Post Time” to the user page. This displays all entries for a user by post time with only the contest name. The default page size is 48 entries.
Jul 25, 2011 – New Features
We now have a home page suitable for linking to in the contest boobies. Just use http://www.bibliostats.com. It should have enough info to get anyone started. It contains a link to the latest/active contest as well as “search” boxes to go to any contest or user page. (I put “search” in quotes, because it doesn’t actually search – you’ve got to know the exact contest # or username. It’s basically a shortcut for the URLs I posted previously.)
Jul 21, 2011 – Minor Updates
- User stats are now updated in “real time” (i.e., every 15 minutes). All the stats on your Statistics tab will reflect the status of your current entries.
- Viewing user entries by contest is now sorted in date descending order. (I got tired of having to page to the end to view the active contest.)
Jul 20, 2011 – Minor Updates
- Removed the participation grade entirely
- Shifted the participation rate to the period stats
- Added average entries/contest stat
- Made all contest themes and usernames links to their respective pages
The last one’s the biggie of these. Any place you see a contest theme or username, it should now be a link to take you to that contest’s or user’s page on BiblioStats. There’s still no dedicated nav panel, but this should allow us to browse amongst the usable pages a little easier.
Jul 20, 2011 – New Features
You asked for it, so here it is… Individual stats.
You can view your stats (or those of anyone else) on the same user page as before:
http://www.bibliostats.com/farktography/user/UserName
where UserName is the Fark username you’re interested in. Note that capitalization isn’t important in the URL.
The user pages now include a tab full of stats and multiple ways to view entries: by contest (in ascending date order), Place, Votes, or NVC. Remember that NVC represents a percentage of total votes, so that’s a good way to see which entries got the highest percentage of all votes cast.
Some definitions/explanations:
- Sliding Quarter is the last 12 contests (approx 3 months)
- Sliding Year is the last 52 contests
- Participation rate is calculated from the total number of contests since your first contest divided into the number of contests you’ve entered.
Two caveats:
- Most of the stats are static for now. It shouldn’t take much to add real time updates, so hopefully that’ll happen by the end of the upcoming contest.
- The charts tab is disabled for now. At some point there’ll be charts for user stats, but they’re not there yet.
Jun 24, 2011 – Minor Updates
We’ve now got live data and charts, both refreshed on the quarter hour.
Jun 21, 2011 – Minor Updates
- Added links to previous & next contests to make scrolling through contests easier
- Uploaded contest charts for contests 286+
Jun 20, 2011 – New Features
As I start to release features of the new stats site, I thought it’d be good to have a single thread for updates & new feature announcements, so this is it.
As I deemed it the most critical, the first still-preliminary-but-almost-official page to be released is the contest results page:
http://www.bibliostats.com/farktography/contest/nnn
where nnn is a contest # from 4 through 319 (as of “In Deep Shadow”). I don’t have contests #1-3 as they’re TF-only.
Omitting the contest number (the nnn part) will always get you to the most recent contest: http://www.bibliostats.com/farktography/contest
On the results page you’ll see that you can view the contest results in 3 ways: 1) By place (the usual voting results page order); 2) By contestant sorted in username order; and 3) by total votes in total voting place order. (I’ve found it’s kinda fun to look at the total voting place order as a side competition.)
This is all static data for now, but it is up to date. You’ll also notice that the Charts tab is grayed out for now. Live updates and charts are the next two features to come.
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