Co-Lab appears to be going backwards. There are now 4,199 items identified as Co-Lab only contributions in the collection, down from 4,249 last month and 4,324 the previous month.
Here are the Challenges project changes since last month.
Games of the XXI Olympiad, Montréal 1976 remains unchanged at 80.8%.
Treaty 9, with 27 images, remains at 7.4% complete.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary is 85.5% complete, down from 86.5%.
Expo67 is 5.1% complete, down from 6.1%.
Summiting Mount Logan in 1925: Fred Lambart’s personal account of the treacherous climb and descent of the highest peak in Canada remains at 17.9% complete,.
Women in the War remains 1.4% complete.
Arthur Lismer’s Children’s Art Classes remains <1% complete.
John Freemont Smith, RG10, Volume number: 4079 is 86.5% complete, down from 88.5% last month.
Molly Lamb Bobak remains at 95.1% complete,.
Diary of François-Hyacinthe Séguin remains 99% complete.
George Mully: moments in Indigenous communities remains 0% complete.
Correspondence regarding First Nations veterans returning after the First World War remains 98.5% complete.
Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 is 94.7% complete, up from 94.1% last month.
Legendary Train Robber and Prison Escapee Bill Miner remains 99.5% complete.
Japanese-Canadians: Second World War is 19.4% complete.
Projects that remain 100% complete are no longer reported here.
I asked ChatGPT for a two-line summary of the progress,
Co-Lab participation is declining, with the number of contributions and completion percentages dropping for several projects. Only one project (Winnipeg General Strike of 1919) showed progress, while others stagnated or regressed.
In a time of decreasing resources, why is the Co-Lab Challenges project continuing?