Not the authors of the phylogenetic analysis paper, but the creators and editors of Aarne–Thompson–Uther index of folktales.
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> While Grimm believed that many folktales were likely to be thousands of years old, only a tiny minority can be traced back to before the emergence of the literary fairy tale in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The "reconstructions" of the authors are based on fantasy. They try to sidestep the massive problem of possible literary origins by manufacturing data with their magical phylogenetic device. It's garbage in, garbage out.
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The method could be compared to a cake recipe as follows:
1. Take 275 tales. These can be found in any specialist ‘Tales of Magic’ delicatessen or curiosity shop.
2. Separate the yolks from the whites. In other words the presence or absence of these tales in 50 Indo-European speaking populations.
3. Mix with a smattering of jargon and statistics. I found the paper to be written in a statistical analysis style, therefore not very accessible.
4. While the cake is in the oven draw some language trees. These indicate how populations have historically come into contact over time (population dispersal and the diversification of linguistic lineages).
5. Remove from the oven and cool. Ice the cake by skimming over debates of written versus oral narrative, and the distinctions or overlaps between them.
The written-oral debate acknowledges that there is a difficulty in tracing oral stories because tales are so easily transportable by travellers. There has been interaction of oral and written texts overtime, with one informing the other (Bottingheimer 2009, 2014). This basically means that what is an oral folktale, and each tales origins is unclear.
For example, different renditions of Arabian Nights indicated that translators created new stories inspired from oral and literary traditions (Warner 2012: 18). While this demonstrates some of the issues with the paper’s source materials it also illustrates how fearless Graça da Silva and Tehrani (2016) were trying to tackle the complex subject of oral folklore utilising new methodologies.
6. To finish the cake, sprinkle the results with statistics to see whether the 275 tales were more likely to spread generation to generation or across geographical areas due to migration, trade, and encounters between groups of people.
7. Eat the cake.
If you funnel potential contributors straight into mentoring, the popularity of the tools is not an issue.
For visibility, there are many possibilities, such as volunteer platforms.
Also, datalists still need JS in some cases like when a default value is set. I have the workarounds and browser quirk notes here in the (to-be-launched) new LibreOffice website code: https://git.libreoffice.org/infra/libreofficeorg/+/835a5cc59...
Good news is that a Firefox dev plans to look into improving datalist behaviour, so only a single click would be enough to display the list.
They launched a pilot in the summer.
From https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/welcoming-shopify-as-a-l...
Re: a new clipboard app, I often see people recommending CopyQ, which is cross-platform: https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ
LibreOffice contributors can influence how the foundation operates by becoming members of the foundation and voting in director elections or becoming elected into the board of directors.
I am mentoring over 120 new volunteer contributors per year (most into C++ development or quality assurance). I'm really happy with the workflow I've constructed and you can read more about it here: https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/how-i-recruit-and-mentor-...
As TDF is a non-profit, cost of labour is certainly an important factor when hiring.
There are now two people focusing mainly on C++ development:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/05/30/welcome-...
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/07/04/welcome-...
However, out of 16 The Document Foundation employees/contractors, I count 9 (including myself, Ilmari Lauhakangas) who do at least some LibreOffice development or 11, if you count development outside of LibreOffice source itself. So donations have always paid for development as well.
Also, I can preserve the empty row, if I paste with Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V (Edit - Paste Special - Paste Unformatted Text). This opens the Text Import dialog.
APSO script organiser is recommended for running scripts from inside LibreOffice: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/apso-a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_reform#English
'On the other hand, many words were refashioned to reflect their Latin or Greek etymology. For example, for "debt" early Middle English wrote det/dette, with the b being standardized in spelling in the 16th century, after its Latin etymon debitum; similarly for quer/quere, which was respelled as choir in the 17th century, modelled on Greek χορός chorus; in both cases, the pronunciation was not changed.'
ECMAScript conformance test results looking good, 87-88% passing at the moment: https://libjs.dev/test262/
I see weekly summary articles about Ladybird development are now being published: https://linus.dev/posts
> The English mead – "fermented honey drink" – derives from the Old English meodu or medu, and Proto-Indo-European language, *médʰu. Its cognates include Old Norse mjǫðr, Proto-Slavic medъ, Middle Dutch mede, and Old High German metu, and the ancient Irish queen Medb, among others. The Chinese word for honey, mì (蜜) was borrowed from the extinct Indo-European Tocharian word mit – also a cognate with the English word mead.
Also: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/m...
> Borrowed from Proto-Tocharian *ḿətə, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. One of the words found only within the traditional Finno-Ugric group.
Fixed versions from bug's whiteboard field: target:7.2.2 target:7.4.0 target:7.3.3
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potilastietoj%C3%A4rjestelm%C3...
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasos_(potilastietoj%C3%A4rj...
It is an expensive regression that crashed productivity for everyone.
Increase since 27 Oct Twitter deal closing seems to be over 200k at this point: https://the-federation.info/mastodon
Another stats page for fediverse in general: https://fediverse.observer/stats