Recap of the 2012-13 season: Part 1 – Contributors

This entry was posted Wednesday, 4 September, 2013 at 4:42 pm

Beginning with this post we present a series of articles that summarise the recently concluded MigrantWatch season (i.e. 2012-13), and compare it with previous seasons. 

In this part we look at our contributors for 2012-13 and examine changes in contributors over the years. In all cases, we define a “season” as starting on 1 July of one year and ending on 30 June of the next year.

Number of contributors

MW contributors per mig seasonAs shown above, the last season saw contributions from 273 MigrantWatchers, which is an all-time high.

Top contributors for 2012-13

Contributor

Records

Shantilal Varu

1331

A Shivaprakash

894

Prathamesh Desai

656

Dipu Sasi

593

Pradnyavant Mane

559

Sachin Shurpali

318

Jayant Wadatkar

316

Ramit Singal

302

Arun M. K. Bharos

274

B R Sheshgiri

260

Number of new contributors MW new contributors per mig season

134 new people joined MigrantWatch and started contributing during the last season (see list below). The number of new entrants has been picking up in the last three seasons. (The number of new contributors in the first season is, of course, the total for that season!)

New contributors in 2012-13

Aathira Perinchery, Abhijeet Avate, Abhijit Juvekar, Aditya Sawant, Ajay Dongre, Akhil Kulkarni, Alexia Aicha, Alok Marathe, Amitabh Cheekoth, Amit Kumar Ghosh, Amritansh Bhanot, Aneesh Kotwal, Anshul Jain, Aparna Jois, Appavu Pavendhan, Arun Agnihotri, Ashish Desai, Bhalchandra Pujari, Bhargav Dwarki, Biang La Nam Syiem, Binod Borah, Binu Balakrishnan, B R Sheshgiri, Chayant Gonsalves, Chinmay Rahane, Chockalingam Selvaraj, Darasingh Shyoran, Deepak Balasubramanian, Deepu Valathara, Devki Nandan, Dilip Nilakhe, Dr. Himmat Singh, Dr Kapil Paliwal, Faiz Rehman, Gaurav Kavathekar, Gauurav Abhay Bhide, Girish S. Jois, G Parameswaran, Hemant Kumar, Himanshu R. Sampat, Humayun Taher, Indranil Basu Mallick, Janet P, Kaajal Dasgupta, Kalyan Varma, Karthik M Kumar, Karthik Teegalapalli, Karurbadmi Srinivas, Kavitha P G, Kiran Bagade, Kiran Hedau, Kiran Kadam, Krishna Murthy, Kshitish Barada, Kuldeep Shukla, Kushal Kiran Kulkarni, Lloyd Nehemiah, Malik Mohammed Shabbir, Manish Kumar, Manoj K. Bind, Mehta Bhagirath Umeshbhai, Milind Sawdekar, Mittal, Mohan Moolepetlu, M S Sekhon, Munish Kaushik, Nabarun Sadhya, Nagraj, Narayan, Nil N. Mohite, Nishant Shah, Panchami Ukil, Pooja Yashwant Pawar, Prabhat Thakur, Prakash Garde, Prashant Murty, Praveen Bhat, Praveen Manivannan, Pronoy Baidya, Pushkar, Puttaraju Kenchappa, Rahul Jagtap, Rahul P Kumbhar, Raj Gopal Singh Verma, Ranjan Kr. Barthakur, Ravi Kailas, Ravi Meghani, Ravindrakumar Soman, Ravisankar Swaminathan, Rohidas Namdeo Dagale, Rohit Naniwadekar, Rohit Singh, Rosita Sequeira, S Anagha, Sanjay Diwakar Kulkarni, Sanket Dharashivkar, Santhosh Krishnamoorthy, Saravana Ganesh, Sathyanarayana Srinivasan, Shah Jahan, Shantanu Joshi , Shanthi Chandola, Shiraz Cambatta, Shirolkar BW, Shraddha Vyas, Shrikant M Khanadali, Shukla Ankit U., Sita rama Raju P, Sivakumar, S Karthikeyan, Sneha Dharwadkar, Somen Sarkar, Srijan Roy Choudhury, Srikanth A P, Subramanian Sankar, Sudhir Shukla, Sunil Bhavsar, Supriya Singh, Suvrat Sehgal, Swapnil Kuldiwar, Tallulah D’Silva, Tanaya Pai, Thorkild Michaelsen, Umesh Marudhachalam, Utkarsh Chowdhary, Venkatesh Kollipara, Vijay Ramachandran, Vinayak Parmar, Vinoba, Vinod Kumar, Vishnupriya Kolipakam, Yajuvendra Upadhyaya, Zenobia Driver

What percent of observers contribute 50% of all records?

MW perc obs by 50pc rep

During the past season half of all records were contributed by just 2% of the observers. (The proportion has more-or-less been maintained for the past three seasons.) This indicates that there is a very small number of MigrantWatchers that are exceptionally active. About 38% of contributors have uploaded a single sighting each, and this has varied slightly (i.e. between 32% and 41%) over the seasons. In the times to come we hope that we can motivate the not-so-active participants to contribute more regularly.

Next in the series: number of sightings contributed and their geographical break-up.

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