Hey, this is a cool idea. I'd like to see the most active characters by... the average amount of messages posted in a day, and then by the average of all the events they've caused (entering buildings, picking up things etc). For the first, I wouldn't be surprised to see Holly Brown in the top of the list, exept that she's sleeping, and that Scarab fellow... And as for the second, town leaders who got loads of buildings to arrange.
And maybe, if possible, search for *'s to find out our most active rp-flooders. This would unfortunately rule out the ones who use :: and () but since those may be included in normal text too, they might be harder to spot.
And also maybe, the most addicted players - who has used the most minutes in the last month or week. Though we can't know if they just leave the browser open... But it might be worth a shot.
Now the problem with these is the process that went with the well known characters, you would have to ask the permission for putting a character name in the Webzine.
Talking of statistics, I was
really disappointed with the last issue. The idea is to make things visual with graphs and stuff, but instead we got blocks of hard to read text, very boring.

Try to put more effort into it the last time.
Also, it might be cool to see the amounts of different clothing articles made since they don't deteriorate. Would be nice to find out how many embroided bracers are out there, or has anyone managed to make dress loafers yet.
Ooh, and the combined amounts of iron and steel in buildings, inventories and lying on the ground!