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[edit] Progress

[edit] Progress in general

Since the last report we had ninety new articles created, which puts us over at 3,023. This is a huge milestone for us, because while some other wikis have been going on article creating sprees we've been trying to create articles with at least some content, rather than just outlines or to simply 'make red links blue.'

[edit] New contributors

We've had a whopping 148 new users sign up for an account and we've been fortunate enough to have Eifelyeti, who has come along and helped increase coverage for several guides. We also had an awesome user by the alias of Baltext who did a great job on improving coverage of several Middle Eastern guides. We also had another user who did a good job improving our coverage of the Taiwan guide too, but I've forgotten his/her alias.

Unfortunately we are still loosing great users with a lot of potential to our competitor, two in the last month if I saw this correctly.

[edit] Focus since last report

Our focus leading up to this point had been preparing for the 3,000 milestone. Other focuses had been improving usability, adding content, improving our guides, and what really excites me is getting more users from the non-de: community involved. A special thanks goes out to Nick Roux for some of the stuff he's helped out with. I also have to thank Jani for writing the Guinsa guide, which is our current Destination of the Month for Off-the-Beaten-Path.

An enormous thanks goes out to Phil Schäufele for pushing the "evil word" issue and explaining the situation to several people. On top of that he did an amazing job on the Manhattan article, which he single handedly wrote.

[edit] Focus during the next month

This is top-secret. If you know the password we might tell you. Here's a hint – focus on the travelers and make our guides useful to them.

[edit] Special issues

Episteme became an administrator on de:. He/she (?) doesn't speak any German, but he/she has proven effective at catching vandalism we've missed.

[edit] Conclusion

Are you kidding? Frankly, we're doing awesome. Sometimes there are a few problems we run into, but the one thing we've got going for us is that we haven't lost sight of the original goal – make a world-wide, free, reliable and up-to-date travel guide.

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