FAQ & whakapā
Answers to common questions about ArtaQuest — how publishing, the reproducibility checklist, challenges, coins, sponsors, and donations work — and how to reach us.
He aha te ArtaQuest?
- 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.
Me whai kaute au?
- 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.
Ka taea e au te whakauru mena kei raro ahau i te 18?
- Ka taea e nga mema 13 neke atu te rehita me te whakaae a nga matua, kaitiaki ranei. Ko te hoko i nga Moni Arta, i etahi atu utu ranei, me 18 neke atu ranei te tau o te kaipupuri putea, he matua, kaitiaki ranei hei whakaoti i te hokohoko.
Me pehea te mahi o nga wero?
- 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.
Me pehea taku urunga ki te wero?
- 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.
He aha nga ngakau, kaua ki nga pooti o runga me raro?
- No te mea karekau he hiahia kino. Kei te ngakau nui koe ki taau e pai ai - kotahi te ngakau mo ia mema mo ia whakautu, mo ia mahi ranei, kaua ko koe ake - a ko nga kaute e tohu ana i nga papa. Kaore he mea hei whakaheke: ko nga mea e hokohoko ana i te mauahara, i te wehi ranei e whakahaerehia ana e ArtaMod, ehara i nga puranga, me nga mea katoa e tika ana kia tu i runga i te aroha e whiwhi ana. Ko nga ngakau katoa kei roto i te Kaitirotiro Raraunga.
He aha te rereketanga o nga moni me nga tohu?
- E rua nga mea rereke. Ko nga Moni Arta he moni — he koura-backed, spendable, cashable; ka toa koe ma te tango i te puna wero. Kei te tu nga tohu - he tatauranga mo te oranga o nga mea i koha e koe hei whakatau i to reanga (Quester to Legend). Ka whiwhi koe i nga tohu ma te hanga (nga mahi whakaputa), te whakauru (he tohu mo ia whakautu ka tukuna e koe), te koha (he tohu mo ia moni ka hoatu), me te tuku utu (nga takoha kua whakatauhia, nga hea, nga tohutoro). Ko te whakapau moni kaore e whakaheke i o tohu.
Me pehea taku koha?
- Haere ki te wharangi koha, kowhiria te whakauru moni ranei, ka haere tonu ki te tirotiro. Utu ma te Interac e-Transfer, kaari ranei; ka kite koe i nga tohutohu utu tonu. Ka whakamanahia e matou te whiwhinga i roto i nga ra mahi 1-2.
He aha te Arta Coin (₳)?
- Ko Arta Coin (₳) te moni a ArtaQuest. Ko ia moni he kerēme i runga i te kotahi mirikaramu o te koura tuturu, a ko te wharangi Rahui e whakaputa ana i te ōwehenga ora o te koura e mau ana ki nga moni kua tukuna — na ka taea e koe te tirotiro i a koe ano te tautoko, kaua ki te tango i ta maatau kupu. He rite te utu o te moni i ia whenua. Ka wini koe i nga moni ma te tango i nga poka wai wero, ka taea e koe te hoko, te utu moni ranei i runga i te reiti koura ora mai i to Pukoro.
He aha te takoha i roto i te CAD?
- Ko nga peeke turanga i Kanata, na reira ka tohua te utu ki nga taara Kanata. Ko nga utu kaari ka huri aunoa i to moni rohe; Ko Interac mo nga putea putea a Kanata.
He aha taku mahi ki nga Moni Arta?
- Ka kitea, ka uru ranei ki nga wero, koha ki te putea mema (ka whiwhi koe i nga tohu kaituku), ka utua ranei mo nga moni noa i te reiti koura ora mai i to Pukoro. Ko ia moni he kereme mo te kotahi mirikaramu koura; kei te wharangi Rahui te tauwehenga tautoko ora.
Ka taea e au te tiki rīhiti tāke?
- 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.
Ka taea e au te whakahoki mai i taku koha?
- Ko nga takoha kaore e taea te whakahoki i te nuinga (tirohia te Kaupapahere Whakahoki), engari mo nga utu takirua, kore mana ranei. Ko nga moni i mahia mo te koha kua whakahokia ka hurihia.
He aha te utu putea?
- Na ko taua utu kaore e whakatau ko wai ka whai waahi. Na roto i te kaupapa Sponsors, ka tohua e nga kaituku moni a Arta Coins ki tetahi hapori, me te utu putea ki runga i taua putea. Ko te waahi e tu ana i tenei ra: kei te kapi tonu te puka putea i te utu akoranga kua reti, ehara i te urunga wero, na reira kaore e taea te utu i te utu wero - he pai ke atu ta matou kii atu i te tuku i a koe ki tetahi puka kaore e taea te awhina. Ko nga moni katoa kei roto i te putea kei te whanui i roto i nga pukapuka pukapuka i tenei wa.
He aha nga tohu o te moni whiwhi e hiahiatia ana e au mo te putea?
- Kotahi te tuhinga e ranea ana: he Panui Aromatawai CRA, he reta painga a te kawanatanga (AISH, Alberta Works, Tautoko Moni Moni, he rite ranei), he ripoata whakatauranga nama e whakarōpū ana i to moni whiwhinga iti, tetahi atu tuhinga kua whakamatauria.
He whakahaere kua rehitatia a ArtaQuest?
- Ae. Ko ArtaQuest Foundation he rehita kore-painga a Kanata. Ka whakahaerehia anake mo nga kaupapa matauranga, kaore he moni e tohatoha ana ki nga mema. Ko te hanganga kore-painga he mea whakaaro — ka tiakina e ia te mana motuhake o te papaapapa kia kore e riro mai, e whai moni ana, e maru marie ranei i tana kaupapa.
He aha te tuunga a ArtaQuest mo AI?
- Kua whakangungua he AI ki te hoatu ki a koe tana whakautu kotahi pea — ki te tiango i te ao o nga mea ka taea ki te kotahi. Hei taputapu, he kaha tena. Hei whakakapi mo te whakaaro, ka whakawhāiti marietia nga mea e whakaponohia ana e te tangata ka taea, me te utu ki te whakaae ki te whakautu toharite mo te mahi kotahi. Ka wera ano te nui o te kaha. I hangaia a ArtaQuest hei whakautu - ehara i te whakahē i te hangarau, engari mo te tohungatanga tangata e kore e taea te whakakapi: te kaha ki te whakaaro mo koe ake, me te whakawhanui i tetahi patai kua iti te miihini.
Kei te whakatairanga a ArtaQuest i tetahi whakaaro, tirohanga ao ranei?
- Kao. Kare matou e tohe mo nga tikanga tuku iho, he haahi, he tuunga torangapu ranei, kaore hoki matou e whakaae ki nga putea ka toia matou ki tetahi. Ka kawea mai e matou ki a koe nga matauranga kore utu pai ka kitea e matou, ka whakaatu i te keehi pono tino kaha mo nga tuunga whakataetae, me te tuku i a koe ki te whakatau i a koe ake kaua ki te tuku i tetahi. Karekau he wehi, kare he korero mauahara, karekau he korero whakatairanga.
No hea te putea a ArtaQuest?
- Nga takoha. Ko te tuku, te tirotiro me te whakaputa he kore utu katoa, kaore ano kia pa ki nga poka wai wero: 100% o nga utu whakauru ka hoki ki nga kaitono toa. Ko ia koha, ia moni me ia ahua koura kei roto i nga pukapuka tuwhera — tirohia te Rahui ora me te Kaitirotiro Raraunga.
He mana atawhai a ArtaQuest mo nga whiwhinga taake?
- 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.