I've moved this to the DISCUSS list as the topic is discussing the "what we should be doing" aspects of FreeBMD. My personal opinion is that FreeBMD shouldn't be involved in producing league tables of their volunteers and the statistics information currently available should not be construed as such. I find it very interesting that those volunteers who are in the superleague regarding their transcription totals appear to be those most likely to keep quiet regarding their efforts being published to a wider audience. They just get on with the task in hand. Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: Dave Pickles <dave@pickles.me.uk> To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 24 January 2004 12:51 Subject: Re: comment re changes to submitters progress graphs >On Friday 23 Jan 2004 07:38, David Jones wrote: > >> Also an update on the progress of the new syndicates >> would inspire their members. Possibly syndicate graphs >> to encourage group identity. > >I too have wondered whether something like this would be an incentive. Look >at the SETI website http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/team_list.html for >an example of how it can be done. > >By a bit of spreadsheet manipulation I see I am number 880 out of 6134 who >have submitted pages, some way to go to catch the leader with over a >million entries! > >The counter-argument of course is that FreeBMD is not about finishing as >quickly as possible - accuracy is far more important. >-- >Dave > > > >==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >Want to help FreeBMD? >Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237