We're not going to get close to 50,000 words, but I figure I'll still keep track. The member who was originally going to respond to this left Discovery, so I had to edit this quite a bit. The new total is 356.
On a related topic, how about this changes to not be just for the month of November? Instead, it could go until the first few people have reached the prerequisite number
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
Counts have been updated! There's also been some discussion on extending the time on the competition until the end of December, as a lot of folk have their hands full towards the end of the year.
If no-one has any objections, I'll edit the original post to reflect the extra time this evening.