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Apoc 2400

5 Oct 2009 5 Oct '09

5:51 p.m.

Google searches: portmanteau - 573,000 hits portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or related to Wikipedia?

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David Goodman

5 Oct 5 Oct

8:15 p.m.

Even looking for the search phrase "portmanteau wikipedia" there are 1320 hits, almost all mirrors. A great many sites simply search Wikipedia if they find nothing in their own database, even just in order to show up in the results list no matter what one searches,. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Apoc 2400 <apoc2400(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Google searches: portmanteau - 573,000 hits portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or related to Wikipedia? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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stevertigo

8:16 p.m.

Apoc 2400 <apoc2400(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Google searches: portmanteau - 573,000 hits portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or related to Wikipedia?

Well, in our defence, hardly anyone used IPA before and now its everywhere -- thanks to us and people like Nohat, who IIRC got that started here. We are influential, and hopefully in a good way. I know that's a scary concept for some people, but that's just the way it is. Free, open, and global = means business. -Stevertigo

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Ray Saintonge

9 Oct 9 Oct

8:15 a.m.

stevertigo wrote:

Well, in our defence, hardly anyone used IPA before and now its everywhere -- thanks to us and people like Nohat, who IIRC got that started here.

Yes, I remember the debate between using IPA and SAMPA. Are we still using the latter? Ec

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Gwern Branwen

4:04 p.m.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:

stevertigo wrote:

Well, in our defence, hardly anyone used IPA before and now its everywhere -- thanks to us and people like Nohat, who IIRC got that started here.

Yes, I remember the debate between using IPA and SAMPA. Are we still using the latter? Ec

I still see SAMPA in Wiktionary entries, but I can't remember the last time I noticed it in a WP entry. -- gwern

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Charles Matthews

5 Oct 5 Oct

8:17 p.m.

Apoc 2400 wrote:

Google searches: portmanteau - 573,000 hits portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or related to Wikipedia?

Google hits as metric seem to mean less than ever. I've just chased to the far end of the Google searches: there were 75 pages total of hits for the first. And 77 pages of hits for the second. So just over 100% of uses on the Web for "portmanteau" are related to Wikipedia? Google-watchers may know more, but the "raw" number of hits seems to collapse under some sort of screening and/or condensation, often by a factor of 1000. Charles

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