I had planned, mid-month, to go through the list of people affiliated with Memphis, click on every username, add up the word count totals and put together some statistics on our region. But then another ML wrote a script to do that exact thing, so now I don't have to do all that work. (But I was GOING to. Thought that counts, right?) Anyway, thanks to NewMexicoKid of Naperville, Illinois, here are our stats, as of today. (Active is defined as having posted to the forums or entered a word count.)
* Number of people affiliated with Memphis = 194
* Number of active Memphis affiliates = 85 (43%)
* Number of people homed to Memphis = 124 (63%)
* Number of active people homed to Memphis = 53 (27%)
* Total regional wordcount = 716919
* Average wordcount (affiliated) = 3695.46
* Average wordcount (homed) = 5781.60
* Average wordcount (active affiliated) = 8434.34
* Average wordcount (active homed) = 13526.77
There are a lot of people affiliated with Memphis who aren't participating or haven't even signed in this year. So that's what brings down our average word count. The last stat, the average word count of people who are homed to Memphis and active, is the most accurate. And wow! 700,000 words! 13,500 on average! We're doing pretty good! Keep in mind that if you're affiliated with Memphis, but haven't set it as your home region your word count is NOT contributing to our regional word count. Go set your home region, people!
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Jenny, co-ML for Memphis, TN
50,141 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 19 55
As of today, Memphis is number 23 on the leader board in terms of average word count (and if everyone in the region wrote 200 words tonight we'd move up to 21.) This is out of 349 regions! That is completely awesome you guys.
Melbourne, by the way? Is number 129.
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Jenny, co-ML for Memphis, TN
50,172 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 20 00
ROFL - go Memphis! I'll be adding at least a couple thousand tonight. Things are flowing for me right now.
50,141 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 20 38
Awesome! I just added 1000 words, but unfortunately the widgets don't appear to update in real time. So we'll have to wait to see if our place on the board changes.
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Jenny
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Jenny, co-ML for Memphis, TN
51,273 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 22 33
Where do you find these statistics for the other groups you guys are talking about?
Dev, I know I'm no big numbers contributor for now, but I did do my 200+ like you suggested to keep our numbers pumped. Hip-hip Hurray!!!
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91,273 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 14 43
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOT US! YAYAYAYAYAYAAAAAAAAAY! Go team Memphis GO!
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Nov 15, 2007 - 14 54
Dev, I know I'm no big numbers contributor for now, but I did do my 200+ like you suggested to keep our numbers pumped. Hip-hip Hurray!!!
The leader board is under Fun Stuff in your navigation bar. The default sort setting is by total wordcount so to see where we stand in average word count you have to click "Average Words," then click it again to sort in descending order. Your 200 words helped, we're up to 22 today! Woo!
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Jenny
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Jenny, co-ML for Memphis, TN
50,172 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 15 06
I have next week off from work. Traditionally, this is the week that my word count surges. The writing is flowing well right now and I am giddy that "the groove" seems to be arriving at just the right time for my schedule. This story will be well over 50,000 words. I hope this helps on the leaderboard.
50,141 / 50,000
Nov 17, 2007 - 22 04
Well, the bad news is we dropped down to number 29 in average word count on the leader board.
The good news is, we passed the million word mark. Woo!
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Jenny, co-ML for Memphis, TN
11,101 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 23 23
Friday November 30th. 10thMuse has 86,103 words and still writing! I may be biased but that rocks!!! Hooray and whoot Anne!!! Congratulations!