How Much Do We Actually Write?

[Jane]

Thinking about the number of posts per day - which isn't important to me - got me thinking about how many a month.

Taking the figures from the archives I got this:



The archive records the number of posts to the list, so are slightly skewed by OOC postings, corrections, and posts that are for closed months, but are useful for a quick overview, all the same.  (This data collection starts after the forums were opened, so there aren't as many OOC postings as there would have been in the preceding months.)

Here are the raw figures:

Jan-06 - 218
Feb-06 -    220
Mar-06 -    183
Apr-06 -    112
May-06 -    126
Jun-06 -    123
Jul-06 -    192
Aug-06 -    122
Sep-06 -    93
Oct-06 -    88
Nov-06 -    146
Dec-06 -    79

Jan-07 -    132
Feb-07 -    143
Mar-07 -    142
Apr-07 -    163
May-07 -    142
Jun-07 -    118
Jul-07 -    153
Aug-07 -    85
Sep-07 -    96
Oct-07 -    88
Nov-07 -    45
Dec-07 -    64

Jan-08 -    91
Feb-08 -    84
Mar-08 -    104
Apr-08 -    104
May-08 -    96
Jun-08 -    112
Jul-08 -    113
Aug-08 -    110
Sep-08 -    87
Oct-08 -    93
Nov-08 -    172
Dec-08 -    114[/list]

I hope you've enjoyed this posting from somebody who doesn't get outside much.  :geek:

[Cali]

Awesome Jane!

Let's see if we can keep those numbers up!   :geek:

[Francesca]

Cool!  Thanks for compiling all of the information for us to see, and then putting it in a pretty chart.  Just seeing the list of numbers wouldn't have done much for me, but the color coding and everything is great.

[Paula]

Geez! Wow! Good work, Jane (you're a bit of geek are you?)  :geek:

[Bree]

Jane, that is seriously cool!  Cool enough that I popped up out of nowhere just to tell you.  ;)  But everyone knows I love me some statistics.

[Jane]

Jane, that is seriously cool!  Cool enough that I popped up out of nowhere just to tell you.  ;)  But everyone knows I love me some statistics.

Thank you.

In your absence somebody has to be Triad's nerdy statistics girl ... I volunteered! :geek:

[Clancey]

Thats Awesome Jane!!

thanks for doing that :0

And look what it caused - a sighting of a most rare and wonderous creature called a Bree!!!  Its amazing and wonderful

 :rate10:

[Bree]

LOL!

No flash photography, it frightens the wild Bree back into her cave.  ;)

I have been busy on edits on what will be the very first book that'll come out in print, hopefully next year just around the holidays.  Edits are hard when you have an editor who isn't afraid to make you cry.

[Cali]

Oh that's fabulous Bree!  You'll have to tell us all about it when it gets closer to publishing.

We do miss you around here though.  You should pop in for some random posting sometime when you need a break from editing. We won't make you cry ;)

[Jane]

And just because I am about to throw this useless list away, I thought I'd give you a list of the 21 people who 'wrote' in November:

Amanda
April
Avril
Becki
Cali
Chelle
Clancey
Dana
Dcstarsearcher
Eimi
Elyriel
Emma
Francesca
Jane
Kaysea
Mikel
Paula
Roxanne
Teresa
Vix
Yvonne

This would be the answer to the question: Which writers were involved in posts that were posted to the list in November 08?

Too much time on my hands?  I think so!  :geek:

[Amanda N]

How about a list with the amount of posts people did during that month? :-D

[Jane]

How about a list with the amount of posts people did during that month? :-D

That sounds hard - and I'm working on something else at the moment.  Bigger statistics!  :geek:

[Amanda N]

Awww...I bet I get the award for the most posts though! :-D

Oooo...I can't wait to see whatever it is Jane!

[Jane]

I haz more stats!  :computer:

(Oh, and I updated the first graph to add in Dec-08.)


Average Posts per Month by Location (over the 2007/2008 period)

[Jane]

And the last two years, showing each year's averages.  :computer:

Average Posts per Month by Location (showing 2007 and 2008 averages)



2008 looks like it was a quieter year than 2007 for most locations, with the notable exception being SWE.  :geek: