A Big Thank You to Sourcerers & Sprinters - 2018 Totals

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The challenge totals for the Sourcerers and Sprinters are finally finished for 2018.

329 Sourcerers registered for monthly challenges and improved 121,968 profiles with another 8,058 profiles worked on by members who didn't register for a monthly challenge

56 Sprinters registered for the weekly challenges and improved 11,659 profiles with another 2,157 profiles worked on by members who didn't register for a weekly challenge. This year the Saturday Sourcing Sprint added a Weekly Citation Tip and an archive of the tips

All total, in 2018 the Sourcerers and Sprinters used the tracker with 143,832 profile updates.

Thank You ALL!!!!!!

in The Tree House by Debi Hoag G2G6 Pilot (391k points)
WOW!!! That's fantastic.  Great work, everyone!!

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Congrats to all Sourcerers and Sprinters (and just a bit of chocolate for me)!

Are WikiTree leaders able to use any of the data coming from Sourceror/Sprinter tracking to ask or answer interesting questions about WikiTree volunteers?  I.e., to make predictions about how long it will take to winnow down the inventory of unsourced profiles to a minimum, what kinds of profiles are easiest/hardest to get sourced, what recruitment and user education mechanics are working to bring new volunteers into the project, etc etc?  

Wondering if this data can be analyzed in interesting ways.
by E. Compton G2G6 Pilot (193k points)
Most of the questions we get in the threads is about the tracker not working LOL One of the things that has changed this year is that Aleš has added a routine that automatically restarts the server after 5 minutes.

Others have occasionally done some analysis of new unsourced profiles vs profiles sourced via the Challenges. Hopefully someone will do that again.
Hopefully!  Those analyses are interesting.

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