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How to rank a million images with a crowdsourced sort

I'd like to rank a collection of landscape images by making a game whereby site visitors can rate them, in order to find out which images people find the most appealing. What would be a good method of doing that? Hot-or-Not style? I.e. show a…
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Crowdsourcing a Complete list of Common Java System Properties and Known Values

I've been inspired by another question: Best Practice for Using Java System Properties I'm currently looking for a complete list of Java system properties and possible values. I'm working on a simple class to simplify use of them (If you're…
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Strategy for Crowd Sourcing and Iterative Development

I've recently gotten involved with a web-based crowd sourcing project. I have two main issues, both with several subquestions. Any insight into any of these questions would be greatly appreciated. 1) Do you guys recommend going through a closed…
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Anyone knows of an OpenSource Collaborative Translation app?

like the one Facebook used to localize its site?
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Best algorithm for matchmaking for a crowd sourced rankings?

I'd like to set up a system that crowd sources the best 10 items from a set that can vary from 20-2000 items (the ranking amoung the top ten is not important). There is an excellent stackoverflow post on algorithms for doing the actual sort at How…
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Is there a way to build a ushahidi like website using WordPress or Drupal?

I would like to know if there is some Drupal module or a WordPress plugin that enables the creation of a ushahidi type website (Ushahidi is a non-profit software company that develops free and open source software for information collection,…
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How to ensure correctness of data gathered via crowdsourcing?

I have a site where users are entering data of some products they buy. How do I ensure correctness of data entered via crowdsourcing (enabling users to vote/edit products) minimizing amount of work that needs to be done by administrator? I'm…
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MTurk external Survey Link. Add Worker-ID to URL

I am trying to crate an external survey link on MTurk. The Idea is that a worker enters my page and solves a bunch of tasks until he clicks a "leave"-Button, that generates a unique token. My problem is that I need to add his worker-ID to my link.…
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What are your crowdsource translation management system recommendations?

I'm looking for a tool to help with crowdsourcing the translations for a web site. Some generous translators have volunteered to help so I want to provide them with a tool to use that will make their job as easy as possible. Ideally the tool/app…
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What crowdsourcing platforms are the most effective?

What crowdsourcing platforms are the most effective? and what measures have people used?
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Where to create External Question on Mechanical Turk

I am trying to create an ExternalQuestion, but I always receive an error. There is also no template for creating ExternalQuestions, so I just use the "other" template and paste the code below. I used the example code from the "External…
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Application internationalization/translation experience using crowd-sourcing? Mechanical Turk?

I have developed a web application using internationalization best practices such as putting all my displayable strings in property files, etc, etc. I would like to have the strings in the property files translated into 5 different languages. Does…
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Using kappa coefficient to evaluate results of crowd sourcing

I have 4 sets of manually tagged data for 0 and 1, by 4 different people. I have to get the final labelled data in terms of 0 and 1 using the 4 sets of manually tagged data. I have calculated the degree of agreement between the users as A-B :…
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Need to use PayPal for user signup

I'm planning to build a Crowdfunding platform like Kickstarter using Codeigniter for my final year project. I have only 7 days left for that. I tried reading PayPal documentation but still I don't know how to integrate PayPal in to my website. What…
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how to crowd source my web crawling

My web application requires downloading content from the user URL specified. Currently this request go through my server, which is inefficient and could get my server IP blocked. Is there a way to let the user download the URL content directly? The…
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