The numbers come from Frederik's map and some areas really look dramatic. odbl.poole.ch and http://odbl.de come to very optimistic conclusions. Possibly because they only consider the last contributor to an object or another metric which doesn't hold water.
Jo 2011/12/14 Simon Poole <[email protected]> > David > > I'm not quite sure where you got your numbers from, but it is clear that > in terms of outright deletions we are talking of less than 5%. > > See odbl.poole.ch > > Simon > > > > David Earl <[email protected]> schrieb: > >> >> >> On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Jo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Critical mass is there, at a ratio of more than a 100/1 and that is of >> the people who had to speak out their opinion. >> >> That's not the point. Since not making a decision is the same as >> declining for the purposes of data survival, deleting a quarter to a third >> of the map seems to me to be the project committing suicide. It will >> improve no doubt as time goes on, but I was seriously expecting the >> threshold to be in the 90+% of data survival to proceed. >> >> Yes, the 100/1 means that only a tiny fraction of the red and orange is >> ideological, it's surely mostly about people who have moved on, in >> interests, email addresses or mortality who we'll just never hear from. If >> it were just their edits, I'd be much less concerned, but it's the way it >> kills everyone else afterwards. It's even more galling when they deleted >> the original data to make their edit, so they've effectively taken the >> earlier work away too. >> >> I'll certainly be contacting people now Frederick has provided an easy >> means to evaluate the data, but I'm not overly optimistic about people >> replying - I run a membership database and find maybe 10% of people change >> their email addresses each year, and half of those don't tell me, and >> that's when they've paid an annual sub to belong. >> >> Is anyone going to answer the question about the threshold? I'm not being >> rhetorical, I really would like to know. >> >> David > > > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit Kaiten Mail > gesendet. >
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