It would be cool if the envisaged project stat page could also include some indication of the project's completion rate, e.g. not only the number of completed WU, or allocated points, but a percentage of how much of the project's target has already been achieved.

It would be even better is this could be expressed in a way meaninigful to the particular project, like 'x zillions of candidate drug molecules already tested, y zillions left to go. Estimate Completion Date: zzz'.

I don't see how progress measured being the responsibilty of the scientists makes it any harder to have global stats as opposed to individual project stats.. If they were 30% wrong before, they'll still be 30% wrong.. Sure to a wider audience, but less link digging, more convenience,=

Like Sek said: project % complete is a moving target. It's misleading, too, since WCG always has more work. Also, many projects move on to new phases. After HPF came HPF2. FAAH now has 6 experiments running or completed. GC is in phase 1, with a planned phase 2. With all these moving targets (and the amount of work changes frequently even within a phase) it would be totally misleading (and loads of work) to try to give an overall % complete. It would be like the Microsoft minute: constantly resetting. Nobody likes a progress meter that goes backwards.

Better that WCG say "yes, we've got work for this year, and we're busy lining up work for next year and beyond". Let the project scientists break things down. FAAH are doing a fairly good job now, even if they don't update very often. They are showing progress on all 6 of their experiments, and a bucketload of other information.