[Wikipedia-l] English stats

[Walter van Kalken]

Yeah my mailbox is overflowing!

Waerth

>In the last two weeks this list saw 233 messages with "English" in 
>the Subject line.  The most common ("Re:" removed) were:
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> 95 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English
> 45 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] new request for ASL/English wikipedia
> 30 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Sample ASL/English entry
> 22 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Anglicised English British English
>  9 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Request for AS/English Wikipedia
>  9 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] OurMedia for ASL-English video
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>None of these discussions are expected to lead anywhere in the 
>near future.  Please wake me up when you have some ASL websites 
>that I can look at, or when you have reached consensus on 
>color/colour spelling.
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>The most of these pointless messages were posted by:
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> 27 From: Mark Williamson
> 21 From: Gerard Meijssen
> 19 From: Jack & Naree
> 19 From: Alphax
> 16 From: Andrew Gray
> 12 From: James R. Johnson
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>I admit to having written 2 of the messages, and this is my 3rd.
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>In 1945 Vannevar Bush wrote an article about the Memex, but he 
>never built one.  In 1960 Ted Nelson started to design the Xanadu 
>system, but have you seen it in operation?  The aspect that makes 
>Wikipedia stand out is that it exists.  We will continue to be 
>more successful than those old losers if we keep smalltalk to a 
>minimum and get back to work on ideas that we can implement.
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