- Current leaders
The current leadership table looks like this:
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- The contest so far
As of this newsletter, the Writing Contest 2010 participants have collected a total of 145 articles.
- This Week
Tempodivalse reports on the second week of the competition. He is the current leader on both points and articles.
Well, we're now about two weeks into the contest. The initial "flurry" of activity has now subsided significantly, and we've settled down to an output of about ten articles per day, down from 25-30 articles in the first few days of the competition. That's less than I had hoped, and a lot of the 31 original sign-ups have yet to write anything, but I can't complain; we've attracted at least half a dozen new contributors to the project, such as Microchip08 and Wizardman, who are doing a great job expanding our coverage.
The point scoring system was designed to encourage in-depth articles, rather than a mass of stubs, and it shows: I estimate our average article size to have increased by several paragraphs, which I believe is good, as it helps encourage casual readers to stay on the site and read more.
I'm in the lead at the moment, and I admit that the gap from first to second place - and especially second to third - is fairly large, but I don't want that to discourage participants (as it appears several people have been). It's not as big a gap as it seems, and two or so in-depth articles would easily bring 50-60 points, placing one well within striking distance. Plus, there are still another ten weeks left, ample time to catch up.
Anyways, happy editing to all and good luck.
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