Questions about mining

[Earthgaia]

What is a share? What do these numbers mean? There is no explanation, I saw in the posts I have looked at.

What does the number under "stale" mean?

Why can't I see other miners?

Why is there no number for acquired bitcoins? This seems very strange?

[ionux]

If you are part of a mining pool, a "share" is your piece of the reward that you, well, share with the other miners.  You can't see other miners, per se, unless you are chatting with them in IRC or a forum like this.  There's nothing to see, really.  Some pools have user rankings or statistics, but nothing personally identifiable.   

[mjc]

Check out my blog I have a number of articles that should help you out. 

http://bitcoinsbs.wordpress.com

also the wiki has some good information for you : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining

[jamieccc]

Thanks will also check it out