Bayesian.Ninja

A segment of a social network (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In my opinion, the most notable missing features of Wikipedia is the ability to network socially . Lack of social features conspire to minimise participants'  social capital (the expected collective or economic benefits derived from the preferential treatment and cooperation between individuals and groups). Lack of networking capabilities is in line with a pervasive attitude that ownership of contributions should be suppressed, external authority ignored and that knowledge matters in the project. Accordingly social costs of participation are growing. Participants in the project have great difficulty in acquiring social capital. The stakes of establishing world opinion tend to outweigh social stakes. Accordingly there is a growing gender gap, under-representation of cultural minorities and disrespect of real world authority. Currently users will try to establish social capital by listing on their user page their m

C-3PO vs. Data (137/365) (Photo credit: JD Hancock ) Trying to get help with SQL ?  Chances are that you could use the open-source web application  mysqlfiddle.  Usually questions asked on the web leave much to be desired in terms of precision. The good news is that with Sqlfiddle you can set up a copy of the relevant sql schema, add some sample data,  add your best attempt and and share these with the people you are chatting or corresponding with. Next follows an example environment I set up to explore on collecting editor sessionstatistics for wikipedia's undocumented revision_user table. Working with a full environment was not practical. Working with the sqlfiddle actually ended up as a big time saver since testing the queries on a live database would have taken hours. http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/d2f02/22 It sometimes seems that setting up a Database environment is a bit of an overkill - especially when it is just to ask a question. However if you have a working fiddle it