Organizing competitions
IMAGINARY Surfer Competitions
IMAGINARY has successfully organised SURFER competitions in the past, with various media partners.
Usually we work with an HTML page like this: http://imaginary.org/competition-israel/ It is also available in German. It may be available in other languages, you may want to get in contact with the IMAGINARY team.
The four images shown in the page can be replaced by any other collection of images, their size is 180 x 180 pixel. Logo placement in addition to the MFO logo is possible including links to partner websites. The height of the MFO logo is 62 px and other logos should have a similar height. For a localisation the main page needs to be translated, as well as a few sentences on the galleries and upload page of the gallery. If you are a github user it is straight forward to localise the competition information using the github repository: github competition page . It is possible to have more than gallery at the competition page. A gallery can have the status 'open' (meaning, users can upload images to this gallery) or 'closed' (users cannot upload). The gallery of submissions to the competition should be open during the competition and closed after the deadline. It will then still be visible after the end of the competition, but no pictures can be added by users anymore. At the beginning of the competition, the gallery of submissions will be empty. However, it is possible to have another gallery of example pictures, which is closed. The description of this gallery would be different (maybe just 'Examples'). After the competition a new gallery of the winning images can be added. This gallery would also be closed and will have a different description as well. Each competition can have individual gallery descriptions. These should not be included in the original html files ready for translation.
If you are not using the github repository, it would be great if translated competition websites could be made available to the IMAGINARY team.
The html code of the website can easily be embedded in other websites, such as media partners to encourage wide participation of the public in such competition. An example of such an embedded case in German can be found on the website of the Swiss newspaper, tagesanzeiger.ch.
Examples of competitions in other languages:
PT [1]
ES [2]
FR [3]
DE [4]
Internal technical info (to be extended
General: this is all connected to the old (2008) system of setting up competitions. And it realtes to the localization part (in which files do we have to change which words). It would be really necessary to change the whole system (for easy translations).
SETUP
1) add new database and passwd into INSTALL_GAL.PHP
2) mysql.php
add database name, passwd
change “connection word” (by, von, de), $verbindewort (default by) change amount of images shown per page, $perpage (default 20) --> delete galleries (if they are filled)
3) RUN INSTALL_GAL.PHP on server (call) result: current time (if successful)
TEXT CHANGES AND SETTINGS
1) texte/hauptseite.txt main info text
2) mysql.php
change “connection word” (by, von, de), $verbindewort (default by) change amount of images shown per page, $perpage (default 20)
3) start.php
Competition (for gallery overview) Zugriff verweigert! FEHLER: Template-Datei nicht gefunden!
3) template.html
“Information” “Competition Gallery” Logos at the end (language selector)
4) index.php “SURFER Competition” (headline)
5) galerie_view.php “IMAGINARY Galery” headline “Back to the gallery” “Pages: ”
6) Create new picture for “UPLOAD picture” using Photoshop, hochladen.php (Futura Font)
Dodajanje slike DODAJANJE SLIKE (capital letters)
7) galerie.php headline “IMAGINARY - SURFER COMPETITION”
8) galerie_upload.php Picture upload
9) img_view.php Gallery: Formula: Back to the gallery
10) galerie_upload_status
Upload succesful!
Congratulations!
Your picture has been saved and will participate at the competition.
Back to the gallery.
Upload more pictures.
Admin: create gallery / change gallery via galerie_acp.php (no passwd protection)
also gallery names, like: Gallery 1
galerie_acp_upload_post.php
change in fucntion: imagepng($dest_im,'galerie/'.$gal.'/'.$new_filename,9); use 8,9 instead of 80,90 (row 101), This is a change in the php script.
I send you here the access to the competition backend (where you can administer the galleries):
Access via: http://imaginary-exhibition.com/xxxx user: xxxx pass: xxxx
The backend should be self-explaining (it is in English). Galleries can be “closed” (for example if you want an example gallery), this means nobody can upload new pictures, or they can be “user galleries”, which means that all visitors of the web page can upload images into this gallery. I made one closed one (first one) and one “user gallery”, but you can edit them and add your own. You can not delete galleries (only hide them), if you want to delete one, let me know (we can do it via the database).
See http://imaginary-exhibition.com/competition-croatia/galerie.php for an overview of all galleries.
