I think you're missing the humor in the choice of word misspelled. If you're
going to criticize Fred's intelligence, you should take care to ensure that you
spell intellectual correctly. Otherwise, it puts quite a damper on your
argument. If I was getting heart surgery, I would want my surgeon
I'm glad to learn that you're already feeling better. That post is a
lot better than *cough*. There's no humor in the choice of word
misspelled. It just so happen that I was betrayed by my mother
tongue. That's how intellectual is spelled. That is a common mistake
both in words or numbers. I
I'm always amazed at the depthness and breadth of knowledge shown on
these posts. The precision, accuracy of the quantitative data on
which posts to this listed are based, making it one of the most
reliable, highly educated and respected fora of the Internet. They
are a true mirror of the
Virgilio:
Your userpage claims you speak American English at an en-4 near-native level.
Want to try again?
-Dan
On Apr 3, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
When I misspelled the word intellectual I wasn't referring to certain
people whose language skills revolve around
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Virgilio:
Your userpage claims you speak American English at an en-4 near-native
level. Want to try again?
Your messages are deliberately obnoxious, unpleasant, and off-topic to
boot. Cut it out, please.
--
Andrew
Дана Sunday 03 April 2011 12:03:56 Dan Rosenthal написа:
Your userpage claims you speak American English at an en-4 near-native
level. Want to try again?
My observation of the natives shows that they commonly commit errors of this
magnitude :)
On Apr 3, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Virgilio A. P.
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
I don't expect that this sort of initiative will be a complete success
even with full internet access for everyone. We know from experience
that getting everybody to agree to anything, even to no-brainers, on
line is
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 23:14, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 3, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
intelectual
*cough*
-Dan
I hope the next time I write in Portuguese, the only mistake I make is
a typo! :)
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Post from elsewhere, forwarded with author's permission.
From: Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net
Date: 3 April 2011 14:44
[quote snipped]
Just a little contrarianism on this ...
Should we be worried about the trendline in newer editors (and more on
this below) or the
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly someone else can do more formal research and come up with
actual numbers. But as for me I think it's ridiculous at worst and
premature at best to say that new users are becoming less sticky when,
it seems to me,
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 09:53, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:
The study examined those people who have registered and made at least one
edit, and the ratio of the people who stuck on after their first edit has
gone down, which is the basis of concern.
Bence, I think the question is:
We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is
that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared
with the number of active accounts. Many such editors will still stay on to
edit their home wiki, without ever editing WP, except perhaps as a test
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Phil Nash wrote:
We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is
that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared
with the number of active accounts.
Yes, due to the sheer number of accounts that
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:51, Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Phil Nash wrote:
We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is
that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared
with the number
Or they can be people scared away by unfriendly welcome :) There are many
reasons, and it's hard to guess. The best is still to have a range of
criteria, and see where they differ. As far as I understand the trend
remains the same in all evaluated criteria, although the steepness differs.
On 04/03/11 5:58 AM, Sarah wrote:
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 23:14, Dan Rosenthalswatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 3, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
intelectual
*cough*
-Dan
I hope the next time I write in Portuguese, the only mistake I make is
a typo! :)
Funny enough I
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