FAQ & okutuukirira

Answers to common questions about ArtaQuest — how publishing, the reproducibility checklist, challenges, coins, sponsors, and donations work — and how to reach us.

ArtaQuest kye ki?

A social feed of citable, reproducible work. Every submission — survey, dataset, model, article, 2D or 3D illustration, 2D or 3D animation, 2D or 3D game, or music — is a public Kaggle notebook that has been run. The author pastes the URL of the notebook's output page, picks which of its output files to publish, and an exhaustive reproducibility checklist runs against Kaggle's public API before the author publishes the work from their own inbox. Published files land in the Library, where any member can attach them to their posts. Reading everything is free, no account needed.

How do I publish a work?

Paste a Kaggle notebook URL, pick the files to publish, read the checklist, request publication, then confirm from your inbox. That is the whole flow. The checklist's blocking checks all have to pass; then a single-use secret goes to your own registered email, and your click plus your device passkey signature is what publishes the work and mints its permanent DOI short link. Every step is free.

How is a work checked?

It is checked, not judged — nothing here is scored, ranked or graded. A reproducibility checklist runs about twenty deterministic checks in four groups: can anyone open it, can anyone re-run it, did that run produce these files, how repeatable is the result. Every check names the exact evidence it read from Kaggle's public API. Blocking checks must all pass; warnings are shown loudly and never block. Because the Kaggle pages the checklist reads answer without a login, the whole checklist is a public assertion anyone can re-run and contradict.

Why must every work be a public Kaggle notebook?

Because that is what makes it checkable by a stranger. Reproducible here means anyone can hit Copy & Edit then Run All on Kaggle, from public inputs, and get this — weaker than a byte-for-byte guarantee, stronger than taking our word for a run on our own machine. Kaggle runs the notebook and enforces the internet switch; we read and report what its record says. The Kaggle kernel is the provenance, and the DOI short link (artaquest.com/d/n<id>) is the citation of record, because a kernel is owner-editable and deletable and a DOI is not.

Nze nneetaaga akawunti?

You can read, play and listen to everything without one — and re-run any work yourself on Kaggle. A free account is needed to post, heart, publish and enter challenges. Signing up takes under a minute and needs only an email address; there are no passwords, ever.

Nsobola okwegatta singa mba ndi wansi w’emyaka 18?

Bammemba ab’emyaka 13 n’okudda waggulu bayinza okwewandiisa nga bakkirizza abazadde oba abakuza. Okugula Arta Coins, oba okusasula okulala kwonna, kyetaagisa omuntu alina akawunti okuba ng’alina emyaka 18 n’okudda waggulu, oba omuzadde oba omukuza okumaliriza okutunda.

Okusoomoozebwa kukola kutya?

A challenge is founded by a member: pick a kind, a sitewide topic and a full-moon deadline, set the entry fee, and open it with your own notebook — the founder pays in like everyone else. Every entrant's fee goes straight into the pool, and at the full moon the most-hearted entry takes the whole pool; an exact tie splits it evenly. The Foundation never takes a cut.

Nyingira ntya mu kusoomoozebwa?

With your own work of the challenge's kind — a public Kaggle notebook that has cleared the checklist and that you have published from your own inbox. Pay the entry fee — all of it goes into the pool — one entry per member per challenge. At the deadline only the hearts decide.

Lwaki emitima mu kifo ky’obululu obw’okulinnya n’okukka?

Kubanga obuwoomi tebwetaaga negative. Ggwe omutima ky’oyagala — omutima gumu buli mmemba buli kuddamu oba omulimu, never your own — era okubala kusengeka boards. Tewali kintu kya downvote: ebirimu ebisuubula obukyayi oba okutya bikwatibwa ArtaMod, so si pile-ons, era ebirala byonna bisaana okuyimirira ku laavu gye bifuna. Buli mutima gwa lukale mu Data explorer.

Njawulo ki eriwo wakati w'ensimbi n'obubonero?

Ebintu bibiri eby’enjawulo. Arta Coins ssente — eziwanirirwa zaabu, ezisaasaanyizibwa, eziweebwa ssente; obawangula ng’okwata ekidiba ky’okusoomoozebwa. Obubinja buyimiridde — omuwendo gw’obulamu bwonna ogw’ebyo by’owaddeyo ebiteeka eddaala lyo (Quester to Legend). Ofuna obubonero ng’oyiiya (okufulumya emirimu), okwenyigira (obubonero ku buli kuddamu kw’oteeka), ng’owaayo (akabonero ku buli ssente eweereddwa), n’okola nga nnakyewa (ebiweebwayo ebigonjoddwa, okugabana, okusindikibwa). Okusaasaanya ssente z’ensimbi tekikendeeza ku bubonero bwo.

Nwaayo ntya?

Genda ku mukutu gwa Donate, londa oba ssaamu ssente, era ogende mu maaso n’okusasula. Sasula nga okozesa Interac e-Transfer oba kaadi; ojja kulaba ebiragiro by’okusasula amangu ddala. Tukakasa lisiiti mu nnaku 1–2 ez’omulimu.

Arta Coin (₳) kye ki?

Arta Coin (₳) is ArtaQuest's currency. Each coin is a claim on one milligram of real gold, and the Reserve page publishes the live ratio of gold held to coins issued — so you can check the backing yourself instead of taking our word for it. A coin is worth the same in every country. You win coins by taking challenge pools, and you can buy or cash them out at the live gold rate from your Wallet.

Lwaki okuwaayo kuli mu CAD?

Foundation banks mu Canada, kale checkout ewandiikibwa mu doola za Canada. Okusasula ku kaadi kukyusa ssente zo ez’omu kitundu mu ngeri ey’otoma; Interac ya akawunti za bbanka za Canada.

Nkole ki ne Arta Coins?

Found or enter challenges, donate them to the member fund (which also earns you donor points), or cash them out for ordinary money at the live gold rate from your Wallet. Every coin is a claim on one milligram of gold; the live backing ratio is on the Reserve page.

Nsobola okufuna lisiiti y’omusolo?

Not an official one, and we would rather say so plainly than leave you to find out at tax time. ArtaQuest Foundation is a Canadian non-profit corporation, not a registered charity, and CRA does not permit a non-profit to issue official donation receipts — so a gift to us is not tax-deductible. Every donation does trigger an email confirmation you can keep as a record, and every cent of it appears in the Foundation’s published books, on the Finances page.

Nsobola okuddizibwa okuwaayo kwange?

Okuwaayo tekuddizibwa okutwaliza awamu (laba Enkola y’okuddiza ssente), okuggyako okusasula emirundi ebiri oba nga tekukkirizibwa. Effeeza ezikoleddwa okusobola okuwaayo okuddizibwa zidda emabega.

Bursary ekola ki?

So that cost never decides who takes part. Through the Sponsors programme, donors earmark Arta Coins to a community, and bursaries draw on that fund. Where it stands today: the bursary form still covers the retired course fee, not a challenge entry, so it cannot pay a challenge fee yet — we would rather say so than send you to a form that cannot help. Every coin in the fund is public in the ledgers meanwhile.

Bukakafu ki obw’enyingiza gye nneetaaga ku bbasale?

Ekiwandiiko kimu kimala: Ekiwandiiko kya CRA eky’okukebera, ebbaluwa y’emikisa gya gavumenti (AISH, Alberta Works, Income Support, oba ekyenkanankana), lipoota y’okugereka ebbanja ng’egabanya enyingiza yo nga Entono, oba ekiwandiiko ekirala ekigezeseddwa obusobozi.

ArtaQuest kibiina ekiwandiisiddwa?

Yee. ArtaQuest Foundation kibiina kya Canada ekiwandiisiddwa ekitali kya magoba. Ekolera ku by’enjigiriza byokka era tegaba magoba gonna eri bammemba. Ensengeka etali ya magoba egenderere — ekuuma obwetwaze bw’omukutu okuva ku kufunibwa, okufuulibwa ssente, oba okugobererwa mu kasirise okuva ku mulimu gwayo.

ArtaQuest eri etya ku AI?

AI etendekebwa okukuwa eky’okuddamu kyayo ekimu ekisinga okulabika — okugwa ensi y’ebiyinza okubaawo mu kimu. Ng’ekintu ekikozesebwa, ekyo kya maanyi. Ng’ekifo ky’okulowooza, kifunza mu kasirise abantu bye bakkiriza nti kisoboka, era empeera okukkiriza eky’okuddamu ekya wakati okusinga okukola ekimu. Era kwokya amaanyi mangi nnyo. ArtaQuest yazimbibwa mu kuddamu — si kuwakanya tekinologiya, naye ku busobozi bw’omuntu tesobola kudda mu kifo kya: obusobozi okwerowoozaako, n’okugaziya ekibuuzo ekyuma kye kifunze.

ArtaQuest etumbula endowooza oba endowooza y’ensi entongole?

Nedda.Tetuwagira nnono yonna, ddiini yonna, oba kifo kya byabufuzi, era tetukkiriza nsimbi zonna eziyinza okutusika okutuuka ku emu. Tukuleetera okumanya okusinga obulungi okw’obwereere kwe tusobola okusanga, tukuleete ensonga ey’obwesimbu esinga amaanyi ey’ebifo ebivuganya, era tukuleke okutuuka ku nkomerero yo okusinga okukukwasa ekimu. Tewali kutya, tewali kwogera ku bukyayi, tewali pulopaganda.

Ensimbi za ArtaQuest ziva wa?

Donations. Submitting, checking and publishing are all free, and challenge pools are never touched: 100% of entry fees returns to the winning entrants. Every gift, every coin and every gold figure is in the open ledgers — see the live Reserve and the Data explorer.

ArtaQuest erina embeera y’obuzirakisa ku lisiiti z’omusolo?

No. We are incorporated as a Canadian non-profit and rely on the paragraph 149(1)(l) income-tax exemption; we have not obtained charitable registration from the Canada Revenue Agency, and until we do we cannot issue official donation receipts. If that ever changes, this page will say so first.