Talk:Most active graticules/old

Discussion

Final 2008 statistics at 2008 Most active graticules and archived talk at Talk:2008 Most active graticules.

Editor's Note

The exuberant Atlanta, Georgia graticules sweeps the old records off the charts. At this pace, they might catch up in successes before summer, and overall expeditions by fall. No sour grapes here, but it would be nice to live in a graticule without significant loss to water or impassable watershed.

Marching forward, --Thomcat 22:13, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Previous Notes

The totals for January 2009 are in, and my local charts are updated with the results of Benjw hunting for expeditions - thanks! Our big monthly winner is Atlanta, Georgia in each category (you guys know that it's okay to document unsuccessful expeditions, right?). Runners up include Mannheim, Germany, Pforzheim, Germany, and my own Seattle, Washington.

I changed the chart around also, so all of 2008 is in one column. We will continue to grow through 2009, then do chart compaction again in early 2010.

See you next month! --Thomcat 17:58, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Not Quite on Topic

I would be interested in seeing a graph, automated if possible, showing the number of active graticules and the number of expeditions mounted on a month-to-month basis. I'm still trying to figure out if our sport is growing slowly, static, flaring up randomly in various places and then dying down again or what. The fact that I singlehandedly got Slave Lake an award last August says that things were pretty slow then. -Robyn 19:42, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Maps and Statistics shows total expeditions by week and expeditions by graticule, but not both combined. Dawidi also has (had? I can't find it anymore) a world map animated gif that showed the expeditions on a daily basis. - Danatar 08:54, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

That gives me a pretty good idea. Kind of too soon too tell. Thanks. -Robyn 15:37, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Updating statistics

If you're going to update the statistics, do it for every single graticule up to a date. Updating just your personal/favourite graticule is not helpful, as whoever updates the rest of the graticules will have to double check your counting anyway. I'm sure Thomcat won't mind help, but updating only one graticule while updating the "as of XXXX-XX-XX" is not helpful, and also misleading. --joannac 21:54, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I think at first that NWoodruff was excited about Atlanta breaking the record. I plan to verify all statistics, of course, and I usually do this a week after the end of the month, so the stragglers all update their expedition pages. --Thomcat 14:53, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow, you guys sure showed me.... It seemed that this page was falling way behind because of lack of interest. I show interest and get the smack down. Far be it from me to do anything helpful any more. Leave it up to the individual graticule if they want to participate or not. That way we can see if 1) they are participating 2) any one is in that graticule. If it doesn't get updated, who cares, it will be moved down the list. --72.243.74.114 15:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

It was not falling behind anything at all. We are only a few days into march just now, and expedition reports often come a few days late, so it was perfectly reasonable that february wasn't included yet. I also disagree with the rest of your statement. This is about graticules, not about single persons, and whether someone keeps track of the own numbers also here apart from all the more significant places can not be a point for getting into the list or not. A graticule whose participants don't edit their numbers in here themselves may still be the most active. --Ekorren 15:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I also remember reading this, "Please note that all contributions to Geo Hashing may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then don't submit it here." --72.243.74.114 15:31, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't take it as a smackdown. You guys in Atlanta are awesome, and your excitement will be an encouragement for groups in other places. It's not that the page is falling behind, just that it's only updated once a month. To be fair, the page doesn't say it's only updated monthly, or that Thomcat is responsible for it. If you want to keep track of Atlanta's participation, feel free to do it on the graticule page. -- Jevanyn 15:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Is the person citing "Please note that all contributions to Geo Hashing may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors" the same as the person who is upset that his/her work was edited mercilessly or is that shared IP just ironic Internet coincidence? The page probably should have a notice on it like "Ensure your graticule page is up to date with links to all expeditions therein. The adjudicator (currently Thomcat) will update this page about a week after the new month begins." Otherwise this will happen again.

I also want to answer the "leave it to the individual graticule" suggestion. This is not a good idea because what we really want to know is which graticules are geohashing the most, not which are editing the wiki the most. While for some of us it's natural to geohash when we can, document when we get back, and edit the wiki for hours when the geohash is out of reach, for others it's all we can do to get them to document their expedition. Some expeditions consist of one photograph, or a note on a user page, and someone else transfers the information to the graticule page. A Ninja Geohasher can earn his graticule an award too. Also I remember a month when I was the lone geohasher in a virgin graticule and was stunned to see it turn up on Thomcat's list. I never would have "entered" Slave Lake, but I was proud to put the ribbon on its page. -Robyn 16:00, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

You can check the Atlanta page and the Atlanta talk page if you want to see it updated daily. It is now automated. -NWoodruff

Did anyone not yet know the page Maps and statistics? -- relet 13:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Can I get rid of this page? It's not being updated (almost the end of May, and April stats aren't up). Appears to be (almost) completely superseded by dawidi's tool (which has the added advantage of being automatically updated).

By "get rid", I mean remove the stats, keep the blurb, and have a link to dawidi's site. --joannac 00:00, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Why don't you copy the automatically updated code from the Atlanta graticule page to here, and put a more prominent link to Dawidi's page (which I can never find when I want). It looks like Thomcat is out of action for a while, but perhaps NWoodruff would be willing to be in charge of notifying graticules if anyone other than Atlanta happens to ever win an award. Portland might be in hot contention soon with all their geohashers. -Robyn 00:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I'd prefer to keep this page, if Thomcat continues to update it. It is formatted so that you can easily follow a certain graticule's activity over multiple months (in one line), whereas dawidi's page is ordered by number of expeditions in each column, so you always have to search for a certain graticule's entry, which even may not be in the top 15 for a month. - Danatar 11:29, 27 May 2009 (UTC)