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b2memWe're now into the second day of the challenge, and what a wild and wonderful two days it has been! :)
Text-Only Player Pages
Those of you who requested text-only player pages, they are ready. (Access text only player pages here.) I am still putting the final stamps on cards there, but you can get the idea of what they will look like.
Satisfying Two Days' Prompts in One Piece
Now that we have two BINGO numbers posted, I've been asked this question a few times, which the teacher in me knows means that more of you are wondering but haven't asked. :)
Is it okay to use prompts from both days' numbers in a single story?
Yes! Absolutely! If you want to combine "Maglor the Mighty" for I18 (Sons of Feanor card) with Thuringwethil and Other Vampires for O72 (Horror card), you are welcome to do so. However, please remember that you'd need to observe the deadline for both numbers. So you'd need to claim your stamp for I18 today; there is no extension because you're also working on the O72 prompts in the same piece.
Please also make sure you request stamps on both relevant posts, meaning you need to comment on the I18 post with the cards you need stamped for I18, and again on the O72 post with the cards you need stamped for O72. We currently have almost 90 participants signed up for this challenge. We have five volunteers stamping cards. It's really important that they have one place where they can see whose cards need stamping. Requests made in the wrong place won't be fulfilled.
Player Page Updates
Several participants requested cards shortly before the challenge started or after the challenge started. This is fine; you can continue to request new cards throughout the challenge, if you'd like. Several of you have asked me when your player pages will be ready or updated, so that again tells me many more of you are wondering but haven't asked! :)
I initially set a soft deadline for card requests to be in by the end of last weekend (Feb. 26) in order to guarantee your player page would be ready for the first day of the challenge. I ended up satisfying requests through Tuesday morning EST, so that deadline was extended by almost two days. That allowed five days to choose from the full list, and some of the cards have been posted for over a month.
I realize that it's a pain in the tail to have to sift through the card claim page, and that it's not as much fun if you can't see your stamps when you earn them. Unfortunately, at this point, player pages are relatively low on my list of priorities. The first few days of a challenge like this always verge on insane, as the other volunteers and I answer questions, fix mistakes on the pages, and of course, stamp cards. This will slow down--it already is--and we'll be free to work on other matters. My hope is to get at least the new players set up this weekend. My fellow stampers have been a huge help in getting player pages created and updated as well. I'd like to get everyone updated, but player pages are made by hand, and I currently have 31 update requests in my inbox from the past few days alone. I very much appreciate everyone's patience as the other volunteers and I work through these.
Community Tags
There are a few tags set up on the community right now for admin purposes, namely 2012:bingo cards and 2012:bingo number. Please don't add these tags to stories, especially the latter, which was set up so that visitors could find the day's number with relative ease.
I'd like to set up a tagging system so that it's possible to find pieces by BINGO number (e.g., all pieces created for I18), BINGO card (e.g., all pieces created for the "All OCs, All the Time" card), and character, genre, pairing, format, et cetera ... the usual stuff people look for. Anyone willing to help with tagging, do let me know.
Again, it's been truly awesome to see this event take off the way it has! To see the number of new fanworks being created, the enthusiasm and support we all show for each other, and the new friendships being forged always make B2MeM well worth the effort. Keep creating and keep having fun! :)
Text-Only Player Pages
Those of you who requested text-only player pages, they are ready. (Access text only player pages here.) I am still putting the final stamps on cards there, but you can get the idea of what they will look like.
Satisfying Two Days' Prompts in One Piece
Now that we have two BINGO numbers posted, I've been asked this question a few times, which the teacher in me knows means that more of you are wondering but haven't asked. :)
Is it okay to use prompts from both days' numbers in a single story?
Yes! Absolutely! If you want to combine "Maglor the Mighty" for I18 (Sons of Feanor card) with Thuringwethil and Other Vampires for O72 (Horror card), you are welcome to do so. However, please remember that you'd need to observe the deadline for both numbers. So you'd need to claim your stamp for I18 today; there is no extension because you're also working on the O72 prompts in the same piece.
Please also make sure you request stamps on both relevant posts, meaning you need to comment on the I18 post with the cards you need stamped for I18, and again on the O72 post with the cards you need stamped for O72. We currently have almost 90 participants signed up for this challenge. We have five volunteers stamping cards. It's really important that they have one place where they can see whose cards need stamping. Requests made in the wrong place won't be fulfilled.
Player Page Updates
Several participants requested cards shortly before the challenge started or after the challenge started. This is fine; you can continue to request new cards throughout the challenge, if you'd like. Several of you have asked me when your player pages will be ready or updated, so that again tells me many more of you are wondering but haven't asked! :)
I initially set a soft deadline for card requests to be in by the end of last weekend (Feb. 26) in order to guarantee your player page would be ready for the first day of the challenge. I ended up satisfying requests through Tuesday morning EST, so that deadline was extended by almost two days. That allowed five days to choose from the full list, and some of the cards have been posted for over a month.
I realize that it's a pain in the tail to have to sift through the card claim page, and that it's not as much fun if you can't see your stamps when you earn them. Unfortunately, at this point, player pages are relatively low on my list of priorities. The first few days of a challenge like this always verge on insane, as the other volunteers and I answer questions, fix mistakes on the pages, and of course, stamp cards. This will slow down--it already is--and we'll be free to work on other matters. My hope is to get at least the new players set up this weekend. My fellow stampers have been a huge help in getting player pages created and updated as well. I'd like to get everyone updated, but player pages are made by hand, and I currently have 31 update requests in my inbox from the past few days alone. I very much appreciate everyone's patience as the other volunteers and I work through these.
Community Tags
There are a few tags set up on the community right now for admin purposes, namely 2012:bingo cards and 2012:bingo number. Please don't add these tags to stories, especially the latter, which was set up so that visitors could find the day's number with relative ease.
I'd like to set up a tagging system so that it's possible to find pieces by BINGO number (e.g., all pieces created for I18), BINGO card (e.g., all pieces created for the "All OCs, All the Time" card), and character, genre, pairing, format, et cetera ... the usual stuff people look for. Anyone willing to help with tagging, do let me know.
Again, it's been truly awesome to see this event take off the way it has! To see the number of new fanworks being created, the enthusiasm and support we all show for each other, and the new friendships being forged always make B2MeM well worth the effort. Keep creating and keep having fun! :)
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Date: 2012-03-03 10:15 pm (UTC)I can see sample tags for card, number, genre, and format. Is there anything else we should tag for? Author/artist and character, maybe?
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Date: 2012-03-03 10:17 pm (UTC)Not all of the tags are on the list. I added a bunch yesterday, partly to set up a consistent format and then got carried away and added all of the cards that had been written for by that point, at least on my stamping list.
Thanks so much for your help with this! :)
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Date: 2012-03-03 10:44 pm (UTC)I've started adding character tags, but I accidentally gave some of them a space after the colon, since that's how I do it in my journal. :-( And apparently I can't edit tags. Can you fix that in your Copious Spare Time? (If you go to Manage Tags, you can fix the master tag and all the ones on the entries will change over.) *looks guilty* Argh, I was trying to help, and now I've made more work for you. :-(
Should we make character tags for OCs? And should we tag exactly as the author wrote it (barring obvious typos), leaving out any fields they didn't use, or should we impose consistency (e.g., merge gen and general)? (Both usages have their merits -- and I'm getting over-excited about metadata again, aren't I? Er. Shutting up now.)
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Date: 2012-03-03 10:53 pm (UTC)No worries on editing the tags--that's pretty easy to do! :) I or one of the other mods will take care of it.
I wouldn't recommend character tags for OCs, although a general "character:OC" tag might be useful. I'm definitely in favor of consistency, i.e., if I write a story about "Maitimo on Thangorodrim" and Lyra writes a story about "Maedhros on Thangorodrim," they should both be tagged "character:maedhros." Since this is a basic community, we also have a 1000 tag limit, which might also influence things.
As far as the merger ... 8^| That's my blank stare. If you have a metadata-loving, professional opinion on which is best, feel free to go for it, with my thanks and blessings! :)
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Date: 2012-03-03 11:41 pm (UTC)I propose a division of labor-- I handle the format and genre while you handle the characters? (I've done Feb. 29 and March 3 for that stuff.)
Basically, what I'm doing is going with the information the author gave us, so unless there's typos, I just tag. If there's more than one genre listed, I list them all, etc. Unless that's not what you meant?
ETA: If you make a mistake typing tags, while you can't officially fix them, if you go back into "edit tags" and correct the mistake, the bad tag disappears off the visible tag list. (At least, that what it looks like on my end.)
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Date: 2012-03-03 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-04 12:09 am (UTC)Not that I'm aware of; most of the recent entries have had those two. But I'm getting into March first and second now, where I'm having to add those as well. You want to take cards while I do number?
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Date: 2012-03-04 01:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-04 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-04 02:05 am (UTC)That doesn't sound familiar at all. (Says she who never did claim her cards. ._.)
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Date: 2012-03-04 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-04 02:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-04 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-04 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-04 02:03 am (UTC)So I would have format and genre, you would have character and number, and she would have cards?
That works for me!