On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Manfred A. Reiter <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/8/3 Rob Weir <[email protected]> >> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Manfred A. Reiter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > 2011/8/2 Rob Weir <[email protected]> >> > >> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andy Brown <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> [...] >> >> >> >> I poked around and found this page: >> >> >> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Statistics >> >> >> >> This lists some additional roles (with counts) >> >> >> >> Administrators (26) >> >> Bureaucrats (4) >> >> Editors (20) >> >> Reviewers (5) >> >> >> >> Those are in addition to 35,020 User accounts. >> >> >> >> Curiously, it reports only 5 of the 35,020 users as having been active >> >> in the past 7 days. >> >> >> > >> > did you poked around 1 year ago as well? >> > do you have an explanation, why these numbers are slowing down? >> > >> > with the statistic above you don't increase the credibility ... >> > >> > or >> > >> > http://www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de/Veroeffentl/Monatshefte/essay.asp?xYear=2004&xMonth=11&eNr=11 >> > > > 1. did you read the first sentence in the link above? > more or less - Churchill: "I only belive in statistics, which I have > mainpulated myself." > or "the only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself" >
But as Mark Twain once wrote, "Responding to data with clever quotes is not so valuable as responding to data with better data". > >> One of the biggest mistakes I made when I moved into my house was to ... > ... [fairy-tail deleted] > >> >> With the wiki, if we really want to allow anyone to have write access >> to it, then we really need to be committed to fight the weeds, which >> in the case of wikis would be spam, low quality content, edit wars, >> etc. If we can re-establish the community participation level the way >> it was a year ago, then great. It would have a chance of success. >> But right now I see almost no activity on the wiki. 35,000 user >> accounts, but no users. If this doesn't change, the weeds will surely >> win. >> > > 2. May be, my english is not good enough to understand, wheather your > your response answers my questions. > If you have an unanswered question, please restate it, perhaps rephrase if you think it was originally misunderstood. Regards, -Rob > M. >
