WCG Badges

UBT - Nogbo · Post by **UBT - Nogbo** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:48 pm

For anyone who is not aware, WCG have changed the way the project badges are awarded.

The following details are taken from the forum announcement:

"A badge is awarded to a member based upon how much computer processing time they have contributed to the project.

There are 3 levels of badges: Bronze, Silver, and Gold, which are denoted by a different background color for the badge.

For most projects, the minimum CPU Run Time contribution for a Bronze badge is 14 days; for Silver it is 45 days; for Gold it is 90 days.

No badge will appear until members contribute at least 14 days of CPU Run Time.

World Community Grid may occasionally change these rules for certain projects such as was done for the AfricanClimate@Home project, which required only 1 day worth of CPU Run Time for a Bronze badge, 7 days for a Silver badge, and 30 days for a Gold badge."

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:39 pm

Thanks for the info Martin, will have a look at doing some WCG when I'm finished doing what I'm currently on.

Terry

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:00 pm

I went on the WCG forums to ask if they are planning to make it possible to display project badges as a single sig on forums.

The reply was that they were going to do it "soon", though one of their advisers said that at WCG, soon means eventually. :?

UBT - Nogbo · Post by **UBT - Nogbo** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:56 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:I went on the WCG forums to ask if they are planning to make it possible to display project badges as a single sig on forums.

The reply was that they were going to do it "soon", though one of their advisers said that at WCG, soon means eventually. :?

That would be cool but won't hold my breath :lol:

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:58 pm

In the mean time you can do as I have but you can only show 3 badges.
PM me if your unsure how

Terry

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:29 pm

I cheated, copied them into one image on paint then uploaded to photobucket but it would need to be updated everytime a new badge or rank was obtained.

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:41 pm

Good idea tho like it

Terry

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:14 pm

UBT - Terry wrote:In the mean time you can do as I have but you can only show 3 badges.
PM me if your unsure how

Terry

It depends on your sigs. there is a maximum of 250 characters. I only managed 1 WCG badge before mine was full.

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:42 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
UBT - Terry wrote:In the mean time you can do as I have but you can only show 3 badges.
PM me if your unsure how
It depends on your sigs. there is a maximum of 250 characters. I only managed 1 WCG badge before mine was full.

Use tinyurl, you should be able to get them all in then

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:39 am

It doesn`t seem to work. I just got a string of code on my sig.

Edit: TinyURL converted the badge image URL to the entire My Grid page.

UBT - Nogbo · Post by **UBT - Nogbo** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:05 am

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:It doesn`t seem to work. I just got a string of code on my sig.

Same here. Just shows as an url not as an image

Edit: I gave up in the end and just created an image with the badges on :)

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:37 am

guys, use tinyurl for everything except the image part
Don't use

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/images/pb/faah_0.jpg
Do use

http://tinyurl.com/4l6xzk/faah_0.jpg

UBT - Nogbo · Post by **UBT - Nogbo** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:01 pm

Temujin wrote:guys, use tinyurl for everything except the image part
Don't use http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/images/pb/faah_0.jpg
Do use http://tinyurl.com/4l6xzk/faah_0.jpg

Excellent! So easy when you know how :lol:

Thanks very much John