I wasn't looking, or thinking about AOO for a few months - missed the
switch.

Anyway, it is the top vote getter question there alright...

Oddly, I can't actually get the csv export from google on the proper
question page - remote services, try back again in 2 minutes please ;)



On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Drew Jensen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Right - I've taken the csv export, sucked into Calc, removed the
> > author/location columns completely, saved as ODS and imported that into
> > Google Docs.
> > Also added a column which subtracts, minus votes, and so yes getting a
> > single question ranking is trivial.
> >
>
> Google Moderator does that automatically.  That is part of their
> popularity ranking.  They might take some other factors into account,
> such as how recently a question was asked.  An older question had more
> time to get up votes, so some normalization seems desirable.  For
> purposes of the blog post I'm using the Google ordering rather than
> devising my own metric.
>
>
> > Any reason, now that the author name/location is excised, not to share
> this
> > raw data for reading. I was about to include the URL here, thought I'd
> ask
> > to be sure no one minds.
> >
>
> We had the URL on the front page of our website for weeks.  So it is
> hardly a state secret.  I'll add a link to the blog post as well.
>
> -Rob
>
> > //drew
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Drew Jensen <[email protected]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hey Rob,
> >> >
> >> > Looking at the blog - I read it that the question abut LibO and AOO is
> >> the
> >> > number one asked question, is that what it say?
> >> >
> >> > I'm looking at the google site and sorting by popularity under general
> >> > questions and get:
> >> > "Most of the times I deal with middle eastern languages. when I open a
> >> > DOCX, DOC or PPTX, PPT file, the text changes from RTL to LTR and vice
> >> > versa. no matter the file is in middle eastern language or latin.
> please
> >> > fix it."
> >> >
> >>
> >> You are looking at the wrong Google Moderator session.  Try this one:
> >> http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2033e8
> >>
> >> > So, I just downloaded the stats as a csv file, don't see yet how to
> get
> >> the
> >> > top questions by vote, haven't really looked yet..by any chance to you
> >> > already have this in a neat SS that you could share,
> >> >
> >>
> >> You should be able to export to a CSV file if you find that more
> >> convenient.  But the default sort order is by popularity, so picking
> >> out the top questions is trivial, once you are looking at the right
> >> page.
> >>
> >> -Rob
> >>
> >>
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Drew
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:57:11 -0500
> >> >> Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> <snip>
> >> >>
> >> >> > OK.  See if the revised answer is good.
> >> >>
> >> >> Revised text is very good.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> <snip
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Is there anything in the current text that suggests blame?
> >> >>
> >> >> No, Rob, there is not, nor was there; I'm sorry if it was picked up
> so.
> >> >>  My comment was intended as general policy that we should not
> attribute
> >> >> blame in any direction; I think we are all well aware how any such
> >> might be
> >> >> picked up by pro-active supporters of other office suites and a
> >> seemingly
> >> >> innocent statement of fact escalated into a vicious slanging match,
> with
> >> >> increasing ill-feeling on both sides.  If the AOO project is to
> proceed
> >> >> (and hopefully, heal historic breaches) I think we all need to be
> >> careful
> >> >> to avoid adverse criticism of others involved in another but similar
> >> >> project.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
> >> >>
> >>
>

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