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Create a Widget
Want to help publicize World Community Grid and your outstanding contributions? Create a widget! World Community Grid now features a widget creation page to allow members to add World Community Grid's logo and member (or team) statistics to their own web pages. It's simple and easy to customize your own widget, selecting from your member or team name, and displaying points, results, or run time contributed.
To create your widget, check out the directions below, and then click here.
Project Badges
You can now earn badges for your volunteerism! World Community Grid is awarding project badges when a member has contributed a certain amount of run time (usually 2 weeks) to a particular project. These badges are displayed on the member's profile page and in the forums. The following are the badges for World Community Grid's projects:
- Nutritious Rice for the World :
- Help Conquer Cancer:
- AfricanClimate@Home:
- Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together:
- Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2:
- FightAIDS@Home:
- Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy:
- Genome Comparison:
- Help Defeat Cancer:
- Human Proteome Folding:
- Beta Testing:
RSS Feeds for the Forums
Now you can keep an eye on the forums without constantly refreshing the page! Just go to the forums, and click the orange RSS button (pictured below). If your browser is configured to add the feed to your favorite RSS Feed Reader, you will be taken there to add the feed. Otherwise, just copy and paste the URL into your RSS Feed Reader. Forum threads will appear in your feed reader when new posts are added to them.
Registration Made Easier
The registration process has been streamlined to make it easier for new members to start contributing to World Community Grid. The options presented on each screen of the registration process are simpler and more straightforward, and the download page will now verify if a member successfully connects to World Community Grid through the software installed on their computer.
Statistics Available in XML
For those who like to gather statistics to make graphs and track records, you may now obtain an XML version of the public member, team, and global statistics pages by simply adding either "?xml=true" if there are no other parameters in the URL or "&xml=true" if there already are parameters on the URL for the page.
Alternatively, you can view the XML introspection page and follow the references provided on that XML document to go to locate pages that are in XML format.
World Community Grid in Chinese
World Community Grid's website has been translated into Chinese. Members who have their web browser set to Chinese as the primary language will automatically see the Chinese version of the site. Everyone else can use the language drop-down on the main menu bar to explore the site in Chinese.
Marketing Toolkit
World Community Grid has added several documents for your use to help spread the word about World Community Grid. Visit the Marketing Toolkit page to see the latest presentation.
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