User talk:Kainaw
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Zipf's law
- Zipf's law is also demonstrated as a 1/f function. Given a set of Zipfian distributed frequencies, sorted from most common to least common, the second most common frequency will occur 1/2 as often as the first. The third most common frequency will occur 1/3 as often as the first. The nth most common frequency will occur 1/n as often as the first.
Without any qualifications, this would appear to conflict with what the article says later, and yet you did not change those later parts. Michael Hardy 20:28, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
... Also: What does "demonstrated" mean? In mathematics, "demonstrate" is often synonymous with "prove", but that's clearly not what is meant here. Michael Hardy 20:31, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I don't know that the rest of the article says. It is written in math-speak, not English. I wrote Zipf's own description of a Zipf distribution. If it conflicts with the article then either the article is wrong or Zipf didn't know what he was talking about. Kainaw 19:07, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Response to help desk question.
Reposted:
I know how to use the square brackets to link to another article on Wikipedia, but is it possible to easily link to a definition in the wiki dictionary? There are some words that I feel could use a link for a proper definition, but do not warrant a full wikipedia article. For instance, I wrote an article on urchin when a dictionary entry would suffice. Kainaw 15:09, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- To link to articles on a sister project, you would type [[(sister project):(title name)|(word name)]]. For example, help is done by [[Wiktionary:Help|help]]. Skyler 15:21, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
USA Patriot Act
I wanted to compliment you on your edits/additions to the USA Patriot Act article. It was sorely needed.
- Thank you very much. I have no personal interest in the USA PATRIOT Act, but I do have a strong interest in Wikipedia. As it was, the USA PATRIOT Act article was full of misconceptions, misinformation, and general falsehoods. So, I took it upon myself to read the articles linked in the article and try to clean it up a bit. Hopefully the tide will turn and it will turn into a good article. Kainaw 01:11, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Tracking Vandalism
Tracking vandalism on Wikipedia is difficult. There are methods of tracking the worst vandals, but not those vandals that wipe a page here and there, then go away for a while, then come page and do a little more. So, I've been going to the talk pages for these anonymous IP address accounts and recording the date that they vandalize articles. My idea is that if we all make a habit of this, we can easily see which IP addresses are used for vandalism and which ones are not. Kainaw 12:41, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)