How many people participated in the on wiki writing contest?
Participation
The average on-wiki writing contest has 29 participants.
We collected participant data for all eight reported writing contests. Participant counts ranged from 6 to 115, with an average of 40.[1]
Creating better tools for tracking budget and hour inputs can allow program leaders to learn if they are getting the most out of their contests, with what they have, and supporting their participants so they are productive and don't lose interest.
Contests put an average of just over US$13 and one hour of implementation time towards each participant of on-wiki writing contests.
We received budget data for three on-wiki contests. This data allowed us to learn what the cost per participant was based on the budget inputs. Costs ranged from $9.00 to $74.07 per participant. The average was a cost of $32.14 to fund one participants involvement in a contest.[2]
Three programs also reported hour inputs. This allowed us to learn how much time went into implementing on-wiki writing contests per participant. Reported hours ranged from .67 minutes to 2.33 hours. On average, one hour of input time went into each participant.[3]
