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April 28th, 2011 15:42 | TeamLiquid
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![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/disciple/forwiki/articlebannernew1.jpg) By tofucake, Aesop, and Liquipedia's Guardian SaintLiquipedia Weekly #17![[image loading]](http://pic.phyrefile.com/s/sa/salle/2011/03/13/silver1.png) Now with flashy coins
Happy Thursday to you all!
You may have noticed a new addition to TeamLiquid in the past few days. Liquipedia is proud to announce that we've finally gathered enough incriminating evidence against convinced Nazgul to put up some special new coins for us. You may notice them at the bottom right of your posts. Yes. There.
You were probably curious about what these coins were and used your 300 APM (no spam right!) to frantically click the coins hoping they would do a trick for you. Sadly, these aren't jumping coins or coins that flash pretty colors but they still do something important.
Making edits on Liquipedia is one of the most thankless jobs on the site. Your edits on Liquipedia are not like posts on the forums where you can easily track down who has posted what and articles are the combination of multiple contributions to Liquipedia. To reflect the hard work people do on Liquipedia we have decided to give contributors to Liquipedia special coins to represent the amount of work they have done on Liquipedia.
Essentially, these coins are to Liquipedia what the unit icons (or otherwise, if you're someone special) are to TeamLiquid. The premise is quite simple. Do stuff on Liquipedia. Sometimes your coins will change.
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/saro/flymonkeys/monkey.gif) This is the only guy besides Mr. Potter who knows how they really work
Usually we like to keep these things secret. You'll never (or maybe eventually) know. Or maybe you will (won't). We do(n't) know. And we are(n't) telling.
Okay, fine. Since you won't stop pestering us, here's the deal ...
Where k1 and k2 are weighting factors, n is the number of edits, a and N being constants, f and F are functions based of the number of characters altered, P a linear functional and of course the integrals are Lebesgue. For obvious reasons the calculation is done in base 391.
But never mind how they are calculated, here are the important facts for you to know:
- The rating is calculated using both the number of edits and the length of the edits
- Edits are counted from both the Brood War section and the StarCraft 2 section
- The coins are ordered by color (bronze, silver, gold etc) then number of coins
- People with more coins are pretty awesome people and deserve free beer if you meet them IRL
You may have some additional questions about how these little guys work. To save some time, here is a brief FAQ:
Why don't my coins display in all forums?
The coins will not show in forums where team icons are displayed. This will be fixed at some point in the future where you will have a profile option to display the coins always, or never, or sometimes.
What is the highest coin level?
Only R1CH and the flying monkeys know. We know there exists at least a Gold Coin. How many beyond that is something we can only speculate about.
Can I see a Top X Ranking list?
We'd prefer to keep that under wraps for the time being. We might re-evaluate whether to display this list or not at a later date. However, for your convenience we have a list of the Top 1 ranked contributor:
Why can't I automatically Tweet/Facebook people about me ranking up!
Do it yourself - you have 300 APM right?
And finally, the Liquipedia team wants to thank the following helpers:
Idea and Emotional Support - Plexa, Nazgul
Graphics - jhNz, disciple
Coding - SonuvBob, R1CH
Your princess is in another castle,
- Liquipedia staff ![[image loading]](http://pic.phyrefile.com/s/sa/salle/2011/04/27/42eY9.png)
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| Golgotha Korea (South). April 28 2011 15:47. Posts 6390 | Profile Blog # |
| Good idea. hope this gets the sc2 build section movin |
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| KingFool Canada. April 28 2011 15:50. Posts 383 | Profile # |
| teamliquid achievments. Well, at least its for the greater good |
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| elmizzt United States. April 28 2011 15:51. Posts 3208 | Profile # |
Woohoo!! There's been alot of conjecture about what the coin rank-up formula is. Thanks for clearing that one up LOL. base 391 is hardcore  |
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| Dubzex United States. April 28 2011 15:54. Posts 3402 | Profile # |
I gotta get me some gold coins.
Edit: Will the coins show up under the team selection drop down, or will the team selection have to be set to None?Last edit: 2011-04-28 15:56:15 |
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| SpiDaH France. April 28 2011 15:54. Posts 191 | Profile # |
| well damn, time to do some writing ! |
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| hordeau United States. April 28 2011 16:02. Posts 154 | Profile # |
Are we allowed to earn coins if we ask(beg) for them without any contributions at all? Lets say I'm in bronze league, do my facts(opinions) matter towards the balancing of the system and will you tailor your rating system to hide my losses so I can't see my losses?
If any of those are answered as yes, I feel like I am now of value to TL. |
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| Ojahh Ireland. April 28 2011 16:04. Posts 689 | Profile Blog # |
| Liquipedia is the shit, such a good idea, I am sure this will boost participation |
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| ReketSomething United States. April 28 2011 16:10. Posts 4012 | Profile Blog # |
But my mood!
Thats a random function...integral of f-1 degree leads to a ln.....waahhh
+ Show Spoiler +
And what exactly are the constants/functiosn1?! Itd be cool if somethingl ike that was used :D
edit: and whats the difference between a weighing factor and a constant...
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| Stroggi United States. April 28 2011 16:11. Posts 1 | Profile # |
| Can we expect platinum, diamond, master and grand master coins in the future? |
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| ReketSomething United States. April 28 2011 16:12. Posts 4012 | Profile Blog # |
On April 28 2011 16:11 Stroggi wrote:
Can we expect platinum, diamond, master and grand master coins in the future?
And then of course remove the bronze coins and then add a Elite Grandmaster League. |
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| elmizzt United States. April 28 2011 16:13. Posts 3208 | Profile # |
On April 28 2011 16:10 ReketSomething wrote:But my mood! Thats a random function...integral of f-1 degree leads to a ln.....waahhh + Show Spoiler +
And what exactly are the constants/functiosn1?! Itd be cool if somethingl ike that was used :D
The Liquipedia coin system is not for the feeble-minded to attempt to understand! |
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| Torte de Lini Canada. April 28 2011 16:25. Posts 27084 | Profile Blog # |
| Going for Gold D:< SEE YOU ALL THERE [salle] |
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| FaZe Canada. April 28 2011 16:29. Posts 470 | Profile Blog # |
YEAH.
Now that there are pretend rewards, that Strategy section should hopefully grow a touch  |
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| dtz April 28 2011 16:31. Posts 3918 | Profile # |
very soon , in this world, when starcraft conquers e-sports and teamliquid stands on the very top of esports world, there is nothing more impressive that you can put on your work resume other than TL achievements
Nice to see the liquipedia contributors rewarded. |
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| kathode United States. April 28 2011 16:37. Posts 264 | Profile # |
<3 Liquipedia
You guys are awesome! |
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| pyjamads Denmark. April 28 2011 16:37. Posts 33 | Profile # |
| haha, this is a nice token of appreciation :D |
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| Zim23 United States. April 28 2011 16:40. Posts 1625 | Profile # |
| Great idea, I'm sure it'll motivate some folks to get to typing. |
| | Do an arranged marriage if she's not completely minging, and don't worry about dancing, get a go-kart, cheers. |
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| seve April 28 2011 16:48. Posts 89 | Profile # |
Happy Thursday to you all!
You just gotta love the Winnie the Pooh reference!
And great job on giving away some shiny coins for those working hard on liquipedia! |
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| Yoshi Kirishima United States. April 28 2011 16:50. Posts 9003 | Profile Blog # |
Yay!
C'mon guys lets see a USEFUL SC2 build order section! |
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