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Welcome to my Church Micro micro-site! It is my intention to make weekly updates to the statistics page and the awards data file, though obviously this won't happen those weeks when I'm on holiday. As at Decmber 2011 this is on a Monday but I make no guarantees this will continue to be the case. For a long period I updated mostly on Tuesdays. Occasionally there have been updates on others days and this will probably be the case, on occasion, in the future.

These statistics are based on the below bookmark lists. If the cache isn't listed there, then I won't be taking it into account. If you think there's a cache missing from the list please take this up with Andy33.

Feedback is welcome. Thoughtful criticism and constructive suggestions will be responded to and may result in me changing/enhancing the page. No promises though! Please contact me through me profile BaSHful.

Why your statistics are not correct
Hopefully this won't be the case for you. However, my database updates are driven by pocket queries and these have limitations beyond my control. A PQ only contains the last five logs. There are two situations where a problem can arise. The first is when a cache is logged more than five times in a day (which does happen!). The second is when there is a delay in the cache being added to its bookmark list and please bear in mind that Andy33 is only human, very busy and also occasionally goes on holiday like the rest of us.

Since upgrading to GSAK v8 I have the ability to get missing logs. On 1st December 2011 I ran this for the first time and it completed four and a bit hours later having added 3995 logs. Four days later I ran it again, this time just with a limitation of looking for just the last 30 logs. It ran for about 80 minutes and added a further 108 logs. In view of the time taken, I will therefore only run this utility about once a month. Therefore, it is likely that there will be times when the statistics page is not 100% accurate.

If you notice that the statistics are not showing all your finds then, in the first instance, I would ask you to be patient. If an urgent update is important to you then please contact me. If you have a sufficiently compelling reason I should be able to do an earlier update for you. If, even after I believe I've captured all logs, you believe the statistics are wrong then please contact me and I will see what can be done to sort it out.

Name Changes
If you change your caching name you will find your statistics are split, those done while you had the old name and then (once you have passed the minimum) a new entry for your new name. If this affects you then you just need to email me and let me know your old and new caching names and I will do the rest. Once I have registered the name change all finds will be shown under the new name.

Explanations

Minimum requirement

The minimum number of caches you need to find to be listed in the main table is steadily increasing over time. The intention is that the table lists approximately the top 500 cachers. In the fullness of time I intend to enhance my program so that it lists exactly the top 500 but that might not be for a while.

Unique finds

Should you log the same cache as found more than once (not that I think you would!) then it only counts as one.

Excluded caches

GC1CT4F - Church micro-St Martha`s is not part of the series, solely because The Roos did not obtain a number from sadexploration! This could have been easily and quickly rectified but after a period of many months, once it became apparent that nothing was going to be done by the Roos, I took it upon myself, with sadexploration's agreement, to create an official one Church Micro 1036...St Martha’s

Removed caches

15th March 2011
For reasons unknown the owner of GC1JPNZ and GC1KWAN has decided to remove these two caches from the Church Micro series. There were at one time numbers 400 and 401. Andy33 has removed them from the bookmark list and I have removed them from my GSAK database. Anyone who logged these caches will see there stats reduce slightly.

Cache owners

The owners of the Church Micro caches have a slight advantage over everybody else - they get counted as having found their own cache(s).

Finder ranking table sort order

The primary sort, as you would expect, is on number of unique finds in the series. Within each subset of people on the same number of finds I have sorted by the 'last find' date. I.e. You are ranked higher if the have achieved the same number of finds by an earlier date. If you achieved the same number of finds on the same date then the person who started later get the higher ranking on the grounds that they've achieved their finds quicker. If you're tied on all three criteria then I reackon you're working as a team! You'll be listed in reverse alphabetical order of finder name. However, you do get the same ranking.

Stuff

History

The very first cache Church Micro 1..Earlswood was published late evening on Wednesday 7th November 2007 and the FTF went, somewhat to my surprise, to me, at around 8:25am the following morning. The cache was found four more times that day by Cache U Nutter, tjapukai, GeoCotch and sham69

The next three caches Church Micro 2...Merstham, Church Micro 3...Leigh and Church Micro 4...Shere were published on Thursday 8th November 2007. The first two were both found once that day, both times by Cache U Nutter, The fourth cache wasn't found until the following day when tjapukai finally got his first (but far from last) FTF in this series.

Church Micro Awards

If you would like to display an award (image) in your profile or in any other web page then please visit the Church Micro Awards page.