Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-21 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Castelo michelcastelobra...@gmail.comwrote: On 21-10-2011 03:06, Andreas K. wrote: the median is always smaller than the average. There's no such relation between median and average: {20, 21, 24, 26, 28}: Median (24) Average (23.8) {20, 22, 24, 26, 28}:

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-21 Thread Castelo
On 21-10-2011 04:11, Andre Engels wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Castelomichelcastelobra...@gmail.comwrote: On 21-10-2011 03:06, Andreas K. wrote: the median is always smaller than the average. There's no such relation between median and average: {20, 21, 24, 26, 28}: Median (24)

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-21 Thread HaeB
2011/10/18 WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com: Hi Fae,  I don't know about other projects, but on EN wki random article means just that. There have been a number of proposals to skew things and filter certain things out, but these have foundered on the twin concerns that including

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:19, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Somehow David Gerard, Milos Rancic, Kim and Tobias Oelgarte made it to 96, 95, 89 and 83 posts last month.  Last month Thomas Dalton, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen and I posted 39, 37 and 35 times respectively, and everyone else

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-21 Thread David Levy
I wrote: I believe that we should focus on the criteria behind reliable sources' illustrative decisions, *not* the decisions themselves. Andreas Kolbe replied: Ah well, that *is* second-guessing the source, because unless the author tells you, you have no way of knowing *why* they didn't

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: This is very very meta. But in my own defence, I haven't posted anything for over a year. Mourning my dearly departed mother. I have said before that monthly limits are prejudicial against those that rarely

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 21 October 2011 16:02, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: These discussions have gone in circles for a month now, and it's the same five or ten people (yes, I am again being rhetorical, please don't bother checking that number) arguing past each other and posting their entrenched