Updates and Begging Cups

So I just pushed some updates for the app, the biggest of those being

1. Your avatars show again!

Twitter changed its API other day and I was still using one of the old calls. It turns out those pictures are pretty important.

2. You may notice a form on left hand side of ranking page with a bunch of metal and material names in them. These are the new tiers.

Participants are placed in theirs based on their reading history. This feature was added so that even if newer readers can’t compete with the higher level readers, they can still win their tier (or even better get promoted to the next tier~). I’ll add another post tomorrow showing the tiers, how they rank, and their ranges.

3. I added the language sort back in.

However, it does not yet rank you by your reading in that language and I do intend on fixing that.

And that’s about all that’s worth mentioning.

Todo list: Undo in app (I swear I keep forgetting about this), Do something when you’ve met your goal (this too), Tweet when you get promoted to the next tier, fix ranking for language sort

Begging Cup

As you all may know, I am a jobless hobo college student so I’m usually pretty strapped for cash. The sever for the contest runs about 120~140 dollars a year and I would love it if you guys could help me out with the bill. We are completely fine for the rest of 2013 however without any help I will not be able to pay for 2014. Please donate anything you can, I would love to keep this contest going for as long as possible!

EDIT: I will keep a running list of donators here, If you don’t want to be listed let me know. I will also let you guys know when we’ve reached out goal.

Current status: 100% to goal!

Thanks to:

Landorien  (Dec 2012)
songlines_north (Dec 2012)
Jenny Schröder (Jan 2013)
Little_Strokes (Dec 2012) (Feb 2013)
Fujiwara23 (June 2013)
KSaiydT (June 2013)
Kanjiwarrior (June 2013)
criticalowl (June 2013)
CrownedL (June 2013)
Brittany Gauer (June 2013)
neilporche (June 2013)
chmijo (July 2013)

JRPGClub (July 2013 for 2015)

The Return of Tadoku

That’s right, we’re officially back and the register is now open but before you run off to tweet at the bot there are a few changes you should know about.

• The brand new app is located at http://ReadMOD.com

You can use the application for all the things you would use the bot for however currently the undo function in the app is disabled

• The contest starts on Jan 01, 2013 00:00:00 your time (timer lies) and ends Jan 31, 2013 11:59:59, your time
• Before registering make sure the timezone in your twitter account is set, you won’t be able to register without it.
• I thought I had more points but I’ve been up for far too long.
• Enjoy tadoku!

If you have any questions you can post here, message me @lordsilent on twitter, or contact me in the irc channel at irc.rizon.net #ajatt (Japanese learners encouraged to join!).

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to crash.

On the -7th day of Christmas LordSilent giveth unto thee

The Return of the 多読 Contest!

and a swift, painless death.

Yes, that’s right, we’re FINALLY back. Sorry it took so long but my medical problems made coding (or any sort of deep thought) near impossible. Rest assured, I wouldn’t make you guys wait that long for nothing!

Whats new?

I gave the bot the web app treatment! Previously the bot was just a script that got ran every minute but now its a full blown app. What does that mean for you guys? Three things

1)The app is fully automatic. Even if I feel terrible or die, the contest will continue running as scheduled without my intervention as long as hosting bills are paid.

2)Contestants are now able to submit updates via the website. This feature is mostly for those who had trouble with the command line-y twitter submission method. Now you can just head on over to the website and submit your updates without any confusion.

3)Graphs. I’ve been promising graphs since the first 2011 contest and the move over to rails (and not shit php) for the website makes that possible(read: easy).

A few of us from the irc.rizon.net #ajatt irc chat will be running a week-ish long contest just to give the app/bot a nice test before we resume our regularly scheduled contest in January(unless we’re all dead).

多読 Contest 2011 Round 2 Results

1.	qqkachoojp	4708.03
2.	Seizar86	4449.46
3.	jimjamjeniko	3964.41
4.	BlackDragonHunt	3827.95
5.	revenantkioku	3154.25
6.	Little_strokes	2250.72
7.	burritolingus	2094.21
8.	sloppier_r	2088
9.	lordsilent	1991.01
10.	loolnashi	1857.08
11.	aiorral	1655.14
12.	legupli	1571
13.	Zetsubou_Robert	1520.23
14.	mirab3lla	1514
15.	Nekesu	1307.33
16.	bakunin3	1114
17.	RichardMedh	1075
18.	KSaiydT	1033.42
19.	Junesun	1020.03
20.	hanikamiya	1005.79
21.	TokyoBoysClub	925.34
22.	loafyi	919.5
23.	zhongruige	911
24.	tummai	906.6
25.	Kanjiwarrior	836.36
26.	MrsMalone_emmie	776
27.	Yuffie89	751.8
28.	doviende	731
29.	nac_est	721.86
30.	melitu	690.49
31.	incorporeality	667
32.	e_dub_kendo	647.91
33.	rachaeldarwin	645.07
34.	Yakkoe	562.77
35.	Calamarain4	545.8
36.	KudouUsagi	451.4
37.	KiraKirai	443.81
38.	HolySt4r	431.98
39.	msklang	429.05
40.	Lorata	425.4
41.	languageez	405.84
42.	simhuman	375.91
43.	jsj2003	361.26
44.	mochidzuki	354.66
45.	jyemenai	353.6
46.	takkie3	331
47.	Reveriekun	328.87
48.	thelanguagegeek	257.08
49.	japaneseme	257
50.	chmijo	254.2
51.	togijoji	252.01
52.	Squallxyz	242
53.	wordmoth	230.95
54.	k2yama	208.42
55.	Sakatsu	207.3
56.	shyxormz	204.6
57.	sandkatt	186
58.	Landorien	184.9
59.	TakehikoKoizumi	179.79
60.	emilyrct	164.85
61.	samhy	158.25
62.	mikotoneko	154.5
63.	drahcir14	149.06
64.	giada51291	149
65.	starsandsea	147.4
66.	ongakunoiro	144.2
67.	peterjcarroll	141.41
68.	veeontour	133.2
69.	diogovk	127.7
70.	Squintox	127
71.	i_Bassam	118.3
72.	aerielle	107.36
73.	penny_ffm	99
74.	momonigiri	96.92
75.	ember_seed	94.88
76.	meghanventura	78
77.	JapanNewbie	74
78.	risasun39	69.37
79.	tonesvenn	68.35
80.	mletterlejp	65.2
81.	HanaYanaa	62.76
82.	distefam	60.6
83.	maryag	38
84.	ayaneko31	33.86
85.	Mirohan	32
86.	firearnok	30.53
87.	RinoaHeartilly_	29
88.	sizzlewriter	28
89.	paboseki	25
90.	pbadger	24
91.	TheKwago	22.2
92.	syreinrage	22
93.	o7400	20.4
94.	kenrickchien_jp	19
95.	danielpwright	17
96.	Nerienea	16
97.	Bluemchenblatt	12.4
98.	Moniiku	8.4
99.	xatlasm	6.8
100.	Jaylant	6.59
101.	arthaey	6.47
102.	don_rivers	4
103.	_nicksan	3
104.	Cush1979	2.54
105.	SheepyAU	2.09
106.	IvanMeredith	0.8

Congrats to qqkachoojp on winning this round! As usual I’d like to thank all our participants (even Ivan) for reading with us this month. We (suprisingly) managed to read 64798 pages nearly tying last round’s score of 65130.71 pages!

Thanks nac_est!

Medium Champs

• jimjamjeniko read the most book pages with 1799 pages recorded.
• honorable mention:  sloppier_r with 1789 pages
• I, LordSilent, read the most manga with 7385 pages (a little over 34 volumes) recorded.
• honorable mention:  Seizar86 with 6962 pages
• loafyi read the most net pages with 698 pages recorded.
• honorable mention: Little_strokes with 340 pages
• qqkachoojp read the most fullgame screens with 16361 screens recorded.
• honorable mention:  jyemenai with 1544 screens recorded
• BlackDragonHunt read the most game screens with 35302 screens (Steins;Gate) recorded.
• honorable mention:  Seizar86 with 20492 screens
• loolnashi read the most lyrics with 150 recorded.
• honorable mention: Squintox with 111 pages
• jimjamjeniko watched the most subs with about 30.5 hours recorded.
• honorable mention:  Kanjius with about 30 hours recorded.
• legupli read the most news with 84 articles recorded.
• honorable mention:  loafyi with 58 articles
• revenantkioku read the most sentences with 5005 (!) recorded.
• honorable mention:  loolnashi with 4961 sentences
• Yakkoe read the most NicoNico comments with 74 minutes recorded.
• honorable mention: TokyoBoysClub with 23 minutes

The next round’s register opens up on June 15th! Be on the look out for other mosts regarding the contest in the next month or so. See you guys in July!

edit:  If anyone is interested in participating in a challenge to starting to learn a new language check out http://6wc.learnlangs.com/ for more info.

and as always you guys are invited to join us in the irc channel! ( irc.rizon.net #ajatt)

多読コンテスト Round 2 For Dummies

…or not since I’m horrible at explaining things. A lot of this is going to be the same as the old post, new parts will be larger and bolded.

Round 2 starts on 4/1/2011 0:00:00 your time and ends on 4/30/2011 23:59:59 your time

Updating your score

As in the first round, we shall be using the TadokuBot to update our score*.

The biggest changes here are :

1. You can have multiple updates per tweet.

   Place a semicolon between medium updates inorder to update multiple counts with 1 tweet.
   Ex: @TadokuBot 25 #book; 65 #manga; 36 #sentence
   If you forget the semicolon get ready to use the #undo function

2. Updates must be in a certain format.

Updates must be in the following format “@TadokuBot [number] #[optional tag like dr or language tag] #“. Reasoning for this explained in number 3.

3. You can have other numbers in your update tweets.

As long as you follow proper format, you can put extra number in your updates now. So “@TadokuBot 1789 #book; I read 3 books today in 1 sitting!” will work just fine.

4. Languages other than Japanese

If you are reading a language other than Japanese you will have to let the bot know by including the languages tag before the medium.
Ex.”@TadokuBot 542 #fr #sentences”

5. Submitting reading times for Subs and Nico

   Instead of calculating the minutes your self, you can now submit times using the following format “@TadokuBot H:MM #subs”. H being hour and MM being minutes. Seconds are ignored on purpose since they are worth 1/300th of a page in subs or 1/600th if its ニコニコ.

list of all the current tags

• #book
  • #dr ( for Japanese use only)
• #manga
• #net
• #fullgame
• #game
• #lyric
• #subs
• #news
• #nico
• #sentences
• #undo
• #[insert language here]
  • #fr – French
  • #de – German
  • #es – Spanish
  • #en – English
  • #kr – Korean
  • #th – Thai
  • #cn – Chinese
  • #it – Italian
  • #nl – Dutch
  • #pl – Polish
  • #el – Greek
  • #ru – Russian
  • #eo – Esperanto
• #repeat

The rest of this is mostly copied from the last “how to” post.

The non medium tags explained

1. #Undo will obviously be used when you make a boo-boo in your updating tweet. It will make it so that your last update never even happened. Usage is as follows: “@TadokuBot #undo I f’ed up” That last part is completely optional :p (Note: Please wait until the undo action takes place to update your score again)
2. #Repeat was born from our new rule letting you re-read material for a smaller return (#fifth is the maximum) . Syntax goes like this: “@TadokuBot 200 #manga #fifth” #fifth could be #second or #third etc.
3. #dr means double rowed and is to be used in case you have a book that is formatted like this. It gives a small boost (*1.48) to equal out the extra reading you are doing per page. #dr is only to be used with Japanese books and requires the #book tag to work. ( f’n BDH)

Where you stand

Q: “But Silent, how will everyone know my awesome score if I’m only tweeting what I’ve read in the last [insert time period]”

A: Fear not, everyone will know just how awesome you are because TadokuBot will tweet your completely calculated score [so you guys might want to follow it] when you update it. You can also always view the scores the old way on the ranking list(won’t be active until the competition starts).

(small note : the new system updates every minute)

* Currently working on another method of updating, hopefully will be up this weekend.

多読Contest Round 2, Register now open!

The register is open and waiting! The procedure is the same as last time “@Tadokubot #reg” minus the quotes. I’ll be keeping a list here but to view the super up to to date check here.

note: If your tweets are protected you will NOT be able to register/participate
note 2: Please inform me in your register tweet or here what language(s) you will be reading if its not Japanese.

1. LordSilent
2. Little_Strokes ← Round 1 winner! Reading Japanese and English
3. BlackDragonHunt← Tadoku 1.0 winner!
4. Bluemchenblatt
5. nac_est
6. Sakatsu
7. HolySt4r Reading Japanese and English
8. e_dub_kendo
9. xatlasm
10. takkie3 Reading English
11. zhongruige Reading Chinese
12. Yuffie89
13. Yakkoe
14. aiorral
15. Seizar86 Reading Japanese and Korean
16. Squallxyz
17. veeontour
18. don_rivers
19. japaneseme
20. chmijo
21. tummai
22. JapanNewbie
23. meghanventura
24. Kanjiwarrior
25. jyemenai
26. Cush1979
27. Incorporeality Reading German, French, and Spanish
28. qqkachoojp
29. tonesvenn
30. distefam
31. k2yama
32. KSaiydT
33. Landorien Reading Japanese and German
34. paboseki
35. burritolingus
36. i_Bassam Reading English
37. loafyi
38. TakehikoKoizumi
39. TokyoBoysClub
40. mletterlejp
41. sandkatt
42. emilyrct
43. jsj2003
44. Jaylant
45. Squintox Reading Korean
46. mikotoneko
47. HanaYanaa
48. momonigiri
49. Nekesu Reading Japanese, Spanish, and Korean
50. KudouUsagi
51. RinoaHeartilly_
52. skr1p7k1dd
53. revenantkioku
54. mochidzuki
55. simhuman
56. IvanMeredith
57. Lorata
58. loolnashi
59. jimjamjeniko
60. diogovk
61. mikankun
62. MrsMalone_emmie Reading English
63. _nicksan
64. o7400
65. syreinrage
66. peterjcarroll Reading Spanish
67. Nerienea Reading Japanese and French
68. crystalcampbell
69. maryag
70. bakunin3 Reading Thai
71. doviende Reading German, Dutch, and Polish
72. Reveriekun
73. KiraKirai
74. Mirohan
75. giada51291 Reading Italian
76. RichardMedh
77. languageez
78. qzchris Reading Chinese
79. Junesun Reaching Chinese, Greek, and Dutch
80. rachaeldarwin Reading Dutch
81. sloppier_r Reading English and French
82. thelanguagegeek Reading French and German
83. ongakunoiro
84. sade_wayan
85. Zetsubou_Robert
86. ayaneko31
87. csnorris
88. shyxormz Reading Japanese and English
89. ember_seed
90. legupli Reading Esperanto, Italian, and German
91. starsandsea
92. TheKwago
93. sizzlewriter Reading Chinese
94. firearnok
95. hanikamiya
96. samhy
97. mirab3lla
98. risasun39
99. drahcir14
100. penny_ffm
101. msklang
102. danielpwright
103. aerielle
104. kenrickchien_jp
105. Moniiku
106. pbadger
107. wordmoth
108. melitu
109. arthaey
110. togijoji

Currently have sentence per page averages for: Korean, Chinese, English, French, German, Dutch、 Russian, Italian, Spanish
Need: Greek ,Polish, Esperanto

Registration for 多読 2011 is open!

The register is finally open! In order to register for the contest all you have to do is tweet “@tadokubot #reg [insert hilarious quote]” minus the quotes of course. You should get a tweet if your registration is successful. TadokuBot is a bot I made especially for tadoku! I’ll be posting details about it shortly. I’ll be keeping a list here but it may be outdated. To see the SUPER REAL-TIME list please  check here.

Current list

1. e_dub_kendo
2. burritolingus
3. xatlasm
4. Kanjiwarrior
5. lordsilent ←俺
6. loafyi
7. BlackDragonHunt ← Previous winner
8. emilyrct
9. mletterlejp
10. IvanMeredith
11. Landorien
12. KSaiydT
13. qqkachoojp
14. Moniiku
15. momonigiri
16. pbadger
17. srunnels
18. tummai
19. Seizar86
20. Little_strokes
21. nac_est
22. fahadalassiry
23. diogovk
24. rtkbot
25. Yuffie89
26. LizLearns
27. mikotoneko
28. mullr
29. languageez
30. Lorata
31. curryisyummy
32. aiorral
33. hotsw4p
34. JapanNewbie
35. Sakatsu
36. don_rivers
37. incorporeality (Reading French)
38. takkie3 (Reading English)
39. Little_Stro_ENG (Little_Strokes #2 reading English. I expect him to be a pile of ash at the end month)
40. tonesvenn
41. mikankun
42. sandkatt
43. crystalcampbell
44. funshinefirefly
45. ImaginaryJapan
46. ShiiraShiira
47. zhongruige (Reading Chinese)
48. spinnningcat
49. HanaYanaa
50. jimjamjeniko
51. Juniperarrow ← Winner of that other reading contest
52. distefam
53. Squallxyz
54. claudiofreitas
55. akemidoll
56. Nekesu
57. danchanman
58. shyxormz
59. Brokenvai
60. Mirohan
61. mattosumisu
62. mattiasjp
63. Infernatotely (reading Spanish)
64. firearnok
65. c_nak
66. Bbvoncrumb
67. jyemenai
68. eigokitsune
69. kenrickchien
70. mysterycheez (reading Italian)
71. jBalaam
72. jamesnowonline
73. stargateheaven
74. SheepyAU
75. MrsMalone_emmie (reading English)
76. giada51291 (reading Italian)
77. CSmiles55
78. hyrulehippie
79. maryag
80. Maya1924
81. Cush1979
82. kaoskastle
83. simhuman
84. kkgtokyo
85. izanameii
86. kiriyama_s
87. sloppier_r (reading English)
88. petromelsan
89. revenantkioku
90. Wicket_French (reading French)
91. entreview
92. ayaneko31
93. youngenstein
94. BuSensei
95. veeontour
96. NeoSamurai05
97. chmijo
98. Bluemchenblatt
99. hanikamiya
100. paboseki
101. emhornerbooks
102. HedgeCRM
103. KiraKirai

(note: the bot updates every 5 minutes)

(note2:let me know if you plan on participating but will be reading something other than Japanese)

A 多読 future

People from all over keep asking me “Hey Silent, is there going to be another tadoku??” and when I say people from all over im referring to about 3 people.  But to answer everyone’s question, yes I do plan on having more tadoku contests. When you ask? good question!  I have come up with the following schedule for the next year.

1. January

2. April

3. July

4. October

I think 2 months between contests should give people long enough to recover from the last contest and improve for the next contest. The next blog post will contain the rule changes so stay tuned.

Random note: It took me a month to write this blog post.

The results are in…

The Final Rankings:

1. BlackDragonHunt     2224
2. Seizar86     2186
3. Kanjiwarrior     1230
4. Juniperarrow     1116.2
5. nickdesuyo     1047
6. nac_est     1019
7. Nekesu     730
8. Sakatsu     655
9. lordsilent     623
10. momonigiri     530
11. Little_strokes     500
12. Squintox     345
13. qqkachoo24     302
14. LizLearns     290
15. loafyi     285
16. wiwocola     260
17. e_dub_kendo     251
18. c_nak     220
19. Landorien     204
20. mikotoneko     160
21. tonesvenn     157
22. Lorata     129
23. peterjcarroll     84
24. hotsw4p     69
25. tummai     57
26. ShiiraShiira     53
27. languageez     52.7
28. burritolingus     46
29. kiriyama_s     45
30. Brokenvai     44.9
31. mullr     40
32. distefam     33
33. pbadger     30.6
34. Infernatotely     29
35. YouAintNoNerd     26
36. don_rivers     18
37. Moniiku     13.5
38. mletterle     12
39. Tibul     10
40. TheoOliveira     7
41. Mirohan     4.5

Let me start off by saying its been an amazing month and I appreciate all of you guys for your participation. Thanks to you all this turned out much better than I expected.  All in all we read a stunning 15138.4 pages (huge improvement over that other contest)! So everyone should pat themselves on the backs, you did good.

But some of us did a little better than others. ..BlackDragonHunt is our contest winner with a huge 2224 pages read over the last month! Congrats!

I hope this last month has been beneficial to everyone’s language acquisition quests and that you will continue to include reading in your future study plans. I am preparing plans for future tadoku contests so keep an eyeout for it!

P.S. Blog posts about your journey through the contest are encouraged.

Last Week!

The contest will end in one week (and a day) so try and finish strong!