docs: grammar/Clarity Fixes. (#3463)

krple · web-flow · commit d4f1a5d06171 · 2023-11-20T10:01:42.000+01:00
* Fixed Grammar

* Grammar Fixes

* Grammar Fixes
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
@@ -65,19 +65,19 @@
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 </p>
 
-<p align="center">Please note that documentation translations may be outdated, try to use english documentation if possible.</p>
+<p align="center">Please note that documentation translations may be outdated; try to use English documentation if possible.</p>
 
 <p align="center">Love the project? Please consider <a href="https://www.paypal.me/anuraghazra">donating</a> to help it improve!</p>
 
 <a href="https://indiafightscorona.giveindia.org">
   <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/logo.png" alt="Give india logo" width="200" />
 </a>
 
-Are you considering supporting the project by donating to me? Please DO NOT!!
+Are you considering supporting the project by donating to me? Please DO NOT!!!
 
 <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/910ede2a-7892-43fe-8c8a-dea45e96d950.webp" alt="Picture of Coromandel Express train tragedy" width="35%">
 
-India just suffered one of the most devastating train accident and your help will be immensely valuable for the people who were affected by this tragedy.
+India has recently suffered one of the most devastating train accidents, and your help will be immensely valuable for the people who were affected by this tragedy.
 
 Please visit [this link](https://give.do/fundraisers/stand-beside-the-victims-of-the-coromandel-express-train-tragedy-in-odisha-donate-now) and make a small donation to help the people in need. A small donation goes a long way. :heart:
 
@@ -129,11 +129,11 @@ Please visit [this link](https://give.do/fundraisers/stand-beside-the-victims-of
 <img alt="Uptime Badge" src="https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub-readme-stats-git-monitoring-github-readme-stats-team.vercel.app%2Fapi%2Fstatus%2Fup%3Ftype%3Dshields">
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]\
-> We're a small team, and to prioritize, we rely on upvotes :+1:. We use Top issues dashboard for tracking community demand (see [#1935](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/issues/1935)). Do not hesitate to upvote the issues and pull requests you are interested in. We will work on the most upvoted first.
+> We're a small team, and to prioritize, we rely on upvotes :+1:. We use the Top Issues dashboard for tracking community demand (see [#1935](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/issues/1935)). Do not hesitate to upvote the issues and pull requests you are interested in. We will work on the most upvoted first.
 
 # GitHub Stats Card
 
-Copy-paste this into your markdown content, and that is it. Simple!
+Copy and paste this into your markdown, and that's it. Simple!
 
 Change the `?username=` value to your GitHub username.
 
@@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ Change the `?username=` value to your GitHub username.
 ```
 
 > [!WARNING]\
-> By default, the stats card only shows statistics like stars, commits and pull requests from public repositories. To show private statistics on the stats card, you should [deploy your own instance](#deploy-on-your-own) using your own GitHub API token.
+> By default, the stats card only shows statistics like stars, commits, and pull requests from public repositories. To show private statistics on the stats card, you should [deploy your own instance](#deploy-on-your-own) using your own GitHub API token.
 
 > [!NOTE]\
-> Available ranks are S (top 1%), A+ (12.5%), A (25%), A- (37.5%), B+ (50%), B (62.5%), B- (75%), C+ (87.5%) and C (everyone). This ranking scheme is based on the [Japanese academic grading](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Japan) system. The global percentile is calculated as a weighted sum of percentiles for each statistic (number of commits, pull requests, reviews, issues, stars and followers), based on the cumulative distribution function of the [exponential](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/exponential_distribution) and the [log-normal](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-normal_distribution) distributions. The implementation can be investigated at [src/calculateRank.js](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/blob/master/src/calculateRank.js). The circle around the rank shows 100 minus the global percentile.
+> Available ranks are S (top 1%), A+ (12.5%), A (25%), A- (37.5%), B+ (50%), B (62.5%), B- (75%), C+ (87.5%) and C (everyone). This ranking scheme is based on the [Japanese academic grading](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Japan) system. The global percentile is calculated as a weighted sum of percentiles for each statistic (number of commits, pull requests, reviews, issues, stars, and followers), based on the cumulative distribution function of the [exponential](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/exponential_distribution) and the [log-normal](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-normal_distribution) distributions. The implementation can be investigated at [src/calculateRank.js](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/blob/master/src/calculateRank.js). The circle around the rank shows 100 minus the global percentile.
 
 ### Hiding individual stats
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ GitHub Readme Stats comes with several built-in themes (e.g. `dark`, `radical`,
 
 <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/anuraghazra/image/upload/v1595174536/grs-themes_l4ynja.png" alt="GitHub Readme Stats Themes" width="600px"/>
 
-You can look at a preview for [all available themes](themes/README.md) or checkout the [theme config file](themes/index.js). Please note that we paused addition of new themes to decrease maintenance efforts, all pull requests related to new themes will be closed.
+You can look at a preview for [all available themes](themes/README.md) or checkout the [theme config file](themes/index.js). Please note that we paused the addition of new themes to decrease maintenance efforts; all pull requests related to new themes will be closed.
 
 #### Responsive Card Theme
 
@@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ You can customize the appearance of all your cards however you wish with URL par
 *   `title_color` - Card's title color *(hex color)*. Default: `2f80ed`.
 *   `text_color` - Body text color *(hex color)*. Default: `434d58`.
 *   `icon_color` - Icons color if available *(hex color)*. Default: `4c71f2`.
-*   `border_color` - Card's border color *(hex color)*. Default: `e4e2e2` (Does not apply when `hide_border` is enabled).
+*   `border_color` - Card's border color *(hex color)*. Default: `e4e2e2` (does not apply when `hide_border` is enabled).
 *   `bg_color` - Card's background color *(hex color)* **or** a gradient in the form of *angle,start,end*. Default: `fffefe`
 *   `hide_border` - Hides the card's border *(boolean)*. Default: `false`
-*   `theme` - Name of the theme, choose from [all available themes](themes/README.md). Default: `default` theme.
+*   `theme` - Name of the theme; choose from [all available themes](themes/README.md). Default: `default` theme.
 *   `cache_seconds` - Sets the cache header manually *(min: 21600, max: 86400)*. Default: `21600 seconds (6 hours)`.
 *   `locale` - Sets the language in the card, you can check full list of available locales [here](#available-locales). Default: `en`.
 *   `border_radius` - Corner rounding on the card. Default: `4.5`.
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ If we don't support your language, please consider contributing! You can find mo
 
 #### Stats Card Exclusive Options
 
-*   `hide` - Hides the [specified items](#hiding-individual-stats) from stats *(Comma-separated values)*. Default: `[] (blank array)`.
+*   `hide` - Hides the [specified items](#hiding-individual-stats) from stats *(comma-separated values)*. Default: `[] (blank array)`.
 *   `hide_title` - *(boolean)*. Default: `false`.
 *   `card_width` - Sets the card's width manually *(number)*. Default: `500px  (approx.)`.
 *   `hide_rank` - *(boolean)* hides the rank and automatically resizes the card width. Default: `false`.
@@ -480,10 +480,10 @@ The top languages card shows a GitHub user's most frequently used languages.
 > Top Languages does not indicate the user's skill level or anything like that; it's a GitHub metric to determine which languages have the most code on GitHub. It is a new feature of github-readme-stats.
 
 > [!WARNING]\
-> This card shows languages usage only inside your own non-forked repositories, not depending from who is the author of the commits. It does not include your contributions into another users/organizations repositories. Currently there are no way to get this data from GitHub API. If you want this behavior to be improved you can support [this feature request](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/18230) created by [@rickstaa](https://github.com/rickstaa) inside GitHub Community.
+> This card shows language usage only inside your own non-forked repositories, not depending on who the author of the commits is. It does not include your contributions into another users/organizations repositories. Currently there are no way to get this data from GitHub API. If you want this behavior to be improved you can support [this feature request](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/18230) created by [@rickstaa](https://github.com/rickstaa) inside GitHub Community.
 
 > [!WARNING]\
-> Currently this card shows data only about first 100 repositories. This is because GitHub API limitations which cause downtimes of public instance (see [#1471](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/issues/1471)). In future this behavior will be improved by releasing GitHub action or providing environment variable for user's own instances.
+> Currently this card shows data only about first 100 repositories. This is because GitHub API limitations which cause downtimes of public instances (see [#1471](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/issues/1471)). In future this behavior will be improved by releasing GitHub action or providing environment variables for user's own instances.
 
 ### Usage
 
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ Since the GitHub API only allows 5k requests per hour, my `https://github-readme
 
 Github Readme Stats contains several Vercel environment variables that can be used to remove the rate limit protections:
 
-*   `CACHE_SECONDS`: This environment variable takes precedence over our cache minimum and maximum values and can circumvent these values for self Hosted Vercel instances.
+*   `CACHE_SECONDS`: This environment variable takes precedence over our cache minimum and maximum values and can circumvent these values for self-hosted Vercel instances.
 
 See [the Vercel documentation](https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/projects/environment-variables) on adding these environment variables to your Vercel instance.
 
@@ -815,9 +815,9 @@ this takes time. You can use this service for free.
 
 However, if you are using this project and are happy with it or just want to encourage me to continue creating stuff, there are a few ways you can do it:
 
-*   Giving proper credit when you use github-readme-stats on your readme, linking back to it :D
-*   Starring and sharing the project :rocket:
-*   [![paypal.me/anuraghazra](https://ionicabizau.github.io/badges/paypal.svg)](https://www.paypal.me/anuraghazra) - You can make one-time donations via PayPal. I'll probably buy a ~~coffee~~ tea. :tea:
+*   Giving proper credit when you use github-readme-stats on your readme, linking back to it. :D
+*   Starring and sharing the project. :rocket:
+*   [![paypal.me/anuraghazra](https://ionicabizau.github.io/badges/paypal.svg)](https://www.paypal.me/anuraghazra) - You can make a one-time donations via PayPal. I'll probably buy a ~~coffee~~ tea. :tea:
 
 Thanks! :heart:
 
