Other Multi-Sport Games Discussion Thread

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  On 4/16/2020 at 7:06 PM, RobtheAggie said:

What about LA84?

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I learned of their library’s existence yesterday. I sent them an email yesterday evening, but I’ve yet to hear back (which is fine, I don’t expect instantaneous service). I don’t know a lot about the library, but I’m very familiar with LA84, and I love the work they do. Do you know anything about them?

[Olympian1010 8,074]

  On 4/16/2020 at 6:04 PM, heywoodu said:

I'd give you some if I had any other than posting results you have on Wikipedia if they aren't there yet.

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Yeah, I might do that if I get bored over the summer. I definitely plan to do my best to get them on our revamped results website at last (in regular text form, not PDF). I love the PDFs because they come with nice covers, notes from officials, logos, pictograms, sponsors, etc.

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:01 PM, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah, I might do that if I get bored over the summer. I definitely plan to do my best to get them on our revamped results website at last (in regular text form, not PDF). I love the PDFs because they come with nice covers, notes from officials, logos, pictograms, sponsors, etc.

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If you want to share them with as many people as possible, put them on Wikipedia. There is no better place for a large collection of results, basically, especially in terms of audience (everyone knows Wikipedia) and how easy it is to use (click on an athlete's name and see their profile, and so on).

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:22 PM, heywoodu said:

 

If you want to share them with as many people as possible, put them on Wikipedia. There is no better place for a large collection of results, basically, especially in terms of audience (everyone knows Wikipedia) and how easy it is to use (click on an athlete's name and see their profile, and so on).

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can you do your anti-totallympics results site propaganda outside of the forum at least

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:28 PM, hckosice said:

 

can you do your anti-totallympics results site propaganda outside of the forum at least

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Hold up. His question was, among other things, how to make his collection public, which I just assumed meant 'the largest possible audience' so as many people as possible can enjoy it. Surely it's allowed to answer a question, even if not everyone likes it.

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:22 PM, heywoodu said:

 

If you want to share them with as many people as possible, put them on Wikipedia. There is no better place for a large collection of results, basically, especially in terms of audience (everyone knows Wikipedia) and how easy it is to use (click on an athlete's name and see their profile, and so on).

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Right, but I want people to be able to enjoy them in their original format, and it’s not just results. It’s bunch of “cool” information material I’ve collected.

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:30 PM, heywoodu said:

Hold up. His question was, among other things, how to make his collection public, which I just assumed meant 'the largest possible audience' so as many people as possible can enjoy it. Surely it's allowed to answer a question, even if not everyone likes it.

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That is correct. I do plan to start aiding with multi-sports Wikipedia at some point. My coding skills just aren’t there yet.

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:32 PM, Olympian1010 said:

Right, but I want people to be able to enjoy them in their original format, and it’s not just results. It’s bunch of “cool” information material I’ve collected.

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I believe on Wikipedia there's an option to link to sources, right? I think that's how I first heard about LA84.

 

Suggestion: post results on Wikipedia if they aren't there yet, see if you can post the PDF's and stuff and so on somewhere on a Totallympics site, link to the Totallympics site (where all the 'extra' stuff is collected as well) as source on Wikipedia: win-win including some exposure for Totallympics on one of the world's biggest websites  

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:33 PM, heywoodu said:

I believe on Wikipedia there's an option to link to sources, right? I think that's how I first heard about LA84.

 

Suggestion: post results on Wikipedia if they aren't there yet, see if you can post the PDF's and stuff and so on somewhere on a Totallympics site, link to the Totallympics site (where all the 'extra' stuff is collected as well) as source on Wikipedia: win-win including some exposure for Totallympics on one of the world's biggest websites  

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I can look into that. The only with posting the PDFs to Totallympics is the data storage. I can share them directly from the cloud where I’m storing them, but that’s my one copy, and if someone fucks with it....well it’s a sad day for me. If LA84 is willing to accept my collection, I can just link them from there to Totallympics. All that of course lies on LA84 having an interest on my work, and allowing me to be a contributor to their digital library.

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  On 4/16/2020 at 8:40 PM, Olympian1010 said:

I can look into that. The only with posting the PDFs to Totallympics is the data storage. I can share them directly from the cloud where I’m storing them, but that’s my one copy, and if someone fucks with it....well it’s a sad day for me. If LA84 is willing to accept my collection, I can just link them from there to Totallympics. All that of course lies on LA84 having an interest on my work, and allowing me to be a contributor to their digital library.

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Aren't there like a gazillion free cloud services where 25GB or something really is no issue at all? Just save them at two of those