Here are foundation-l list statistics for the end of November. (Sorry for HTML email, it was the only way known to me to format stats well for all.) Statistics are at the bottom.

== Good news ==

* If we get one more new participant at foundation-l, we will at the highest level of new participants per month since April this year. * This is the biggest (relative) raise between October and November at all. This is, also, one of the biggest relative raises in communication between two months at all. * This is the second best November by number of active participants. * At last, we are communicating and the most of discussions are constructive. Lower amount of emails for 10-20% is reasonable if quality of discussion is higher.

== Bad news ==

* This is the second worst November by amount of emails. However, it should be noted that it is much better than the worst one (2004) and that the number of emails will be much closer to the number of better Novembers. * This is the second worst November by amount of new participants. * This may be just a seasonal raise in conjunction with one important (and extraordinary) event (GFDL 1.3).

== Conclusions ==

* Raise of communication encourages. If the trend of raising continues to December (all Decembers show raise toward Novembers except one, 2005), it would be possible to say that at least communication on this list came back to the normal trends. Communication behavior for the winter months is also important because it is usually higher than during summer months (except for 2006; possibly related to Wikimania in Boston, but I didn't check it). * Events, bad or good are raising communication level. But, of course, it is better to have good events than to have bad events (which took in my mind the famous quote of Grunf, one of the characters from Alan Ford comics [1]: "If you want to win you must not lose").

== Statistics up to 2008-11-27, ~16:00 UTC ==

;Email count: <pre> year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2004 xxx xxx xxx 64 532 506 474 242 462 650 276 282 2005 630 760 642 574 690 438 396 684 488 758 1074 672 2006 514 506 860 588 910 1666 1262 1670 2180 1206 1116 2530 2007 1138 624 665 1042 798 407 1163 471 791 1072 1030 1260 2008 1497 688 1679 1675 1131 942 609 501 699 559 761 xxx </pre>

;New participants: <pre> year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2004 xxx xxx xxx 13 31 25 14 6 22 9 8 9 2005 17 21 10 8 9 9 8 18 15 10 15 16 2006 21 12 18 16 18 20 15 28 25 17 20 28 2007 19 26 13 21 22 18 18 19 14 15 21 19 2008 23 11 24 15 12 11 7 8 12 4 12 xxx </pre>

;Active participants: <pre> year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2004 xxx xxx xxx 13 39 48 40 29 48 45 40 40 2005 58 61 56 56 57 57 52 73 67 67 74 73 2006 71 69 75 78 85 100 73 114 117 100 108 131 2007 120 112 103 132 126 110 142 105 121 135 131 156 2008 158 115 164 130 132 124 125 112 123 91 111 xxx </pre>

;Emails size: <pre> year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2004 xxx xxx xxx 121475 1104754 1053462 967130 485494 719985 1097434 564584 539745 2005 1249081 1380845 1074325 953014 1347131 860264 857746 1296746 969160 1525844 2426353 1369238 2006 1042910 985712 1903912 1655576 1928528 3816811 2879586 3570674 4147155 2128520 2385879 5398523 2007 2563519 1333895 1462309 2244803 1745971 955367 2470301 968443 1741702 2224105 2129518 2422959 2008 3618057 1514498 4042573 4485905 2360334 2033119 1152809 1078196 1390021 1363943 1917469 xxx </pre>

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ford_(comics)