UPDATE, 1st Jan 2005 & Summary for MEG

[carolynwhite2]

I am doing this update a day early because of the date, and also 
incorporating a short summary for MEG, which I have promised to 
provide every month [Kelley can you copy the following paragraph to 
them?]

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PROGRESS ON CATALOGUING PROJECT AS AT 1st Jan 2005

The group has now catalogued 42815 posts in total, including the old 
Yahoo Club. We have reached post 35000 on the main list.

In the process, we have rejected 23001 posts - 56.5% of the total 
coded. There are therefore 19814 posts currently in the catalogue.

The group currently has 23 members, of which 14 are actively coding.

On the technical front the most pressing issue at the moment is a 
projected change of server from Paul's personal computer to a hosted 
service. We anticipate that this will happen in the first few weeks 
of January, and hopefully resolve a number of problems ranging from a 
slow connection to security issues for Paul.

The second technical priority is to push forward with the screen 
designs for the user interface, and to scope out the technical 
details for that part of the project. Tim Regan has begun to sketch 
out these proposals.

The plan is to have the search screens up and working by April/May 
05. The date at which the catalogue can be launched depends on a 
decision as to how much of the list needs to be catalogued before it 
becomes a useful resource for the members.

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Back to normal service:

PROGRESS OVER LAST TWO WEEKS
In the two weeks since I last did an update, we have coded 784 posts, 
with 8 people putting in some time over Christmas and New Year.

CODING ERRORS:
Could you check the following and decide on the reject/non-reject 
status?

33998, 33993 (Talisman)
32878, 32881 (Debbie)
29280, 29277, 29273, 29256 (Eva)

NEW CATEGORIES:
See Snape and Lupin acronyms for new sub-heads

1.1.1.2 Redemption (no longer an acronym but a normal sub-head)
1.1.5.1 Graveyards & Burial Practices