Awardsmaster's job description
Anagrammy Awards
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Pre-competition: Usually about 1st to 2nd of each month.
- Announce the close of nominations at midnight GMT on the last day of the month.
- Run an end-of-month script that sets everything up for the voting pages.
- Call for members' selections for the Final List, and wait 24-48 hours for their selections to come in.
- Edit the nomination text file using members' selections and requests for category changes.
- Create a page for the Special Category anagrams. This is the only page still done by hand because of the complexity of these anagrams.
- Make selections for those members who do not send in their own.
- Run the script which will automatically convert the text file into the ballot pages.
- Test the Voting Page and the Leaders Board. Correct any errors.
- Final test the Voting Page.
- Open the voting.
The competition: Usually in the first week each month, avoiding any weekend days.
- Run the script that opens voting.
- Announce the opening of voting on the Anagrammy Forum.
- Send out the Reminder Email to list, when voting opens and 24 hours before it closes.
- Start monitoring emailed votes, watching for duplicate votes.
- Run the script that closes voting.
- Announce closure of voting and preliminary results.
Post-competition: Usually before or in the second week of each month.
- Select the Awardsmaster's Choice Award for the best anagram by a non-winning author.
- Enter the DFE points into an Excel file to calculate the progressive scores.
- Announce the official winners in the Anagrammy Forum.
- Update all the files below.
Files updated each month after the competition.
Abbreviations:
year = yyyy
month = mm
initials of member = xx
number = nn
winners directory:
|
index.php |
(update number of winners) |
|
yyyyover.inc |
(update table of awards in month and year) |
|
yyyydfes.inc |
(update table of DFE points in month and year) |
|
alltimeover.inc |
(update table of total number of awards) |
|
showrandomwinners.txt |
(add all short, non-rude winners) |
literary directory:
|
index.html |
(update member numbers and total number) |
|
/xx/index.html |
(update index for each member needing update) |
|
/xx/poems-xxnn.html |
(update or create pages for each member needing update) |
results directory:
|
index.html |
(update index of month score files) |
|
/yyyy/scoresmm.html |
(move monthly scores generated from leader board) |
archives directory:
|
voters.html |
(update table and graph of voters per month and year) |
|
/yyyy/anag-yyyymm.html |
(sort each month's category placegetters) |
Miscellaneous tasks: The rest of the month.
- Monitor the Anagrammy Forum for errors, troll posts, spam, etc. Forum Moderators assist with this.
- Add announcements to the Forum. Forum Moderators also assist with this.
- Monitor the Forum Stats pages.
- Make occasional design changes, edit and optimise HTML code.
- Try out new ideas.
- Create a few anagrams, if I get a chance.
- Nominate other members' anagrams.
Updated: January 14, 2008
