[Foundation-l] List statistics for Novemeber

Thu Nov 27 16:51:42 UTC 2008

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)