Re: Language data

[Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>]

Dave Page a ecrit le 22/02/2007 13:06:
> Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>
> > I see a different way to look at your statistics. This is just
> > percentage numbers. Do you have "real" numbers ? I mean, 3.9% of the
> > people visiting www.postgresql.org speak french. OK. But 3.9% of how many ?
>
> Magnus probably doesn't have much net access at the moment, so...
>
> From 15/02 - 21/02, 3.95% of the visits to www.postgresql.org have their
> language preference set to French. That equates to 5105 of around 130K
> total visits.

Thanks for the numbers :)

> > Looking at wikipedia, the United States' population stood at an
> > estimated 300,000,000. France has an estimated population of 64 million
> > people. So France has 21.33% of the population the United States has. So
> > having a 3.9% french people visiting the www.postgresql.org web site
> > seems a bit huge to me. Of course, there's other countries where french
> > is an official language
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_French_is_an_official_language
> > ... hmmm, much more than I thought :) ).
> >
> > And how many french people are interested in PostgreSQL ? I can't say
> > but if more than 50% of the french people interested in PostgreSQL are
> > visiting www.postgresql.org, we absolutely need a french translation on
> > this website.
> >
> > I just hope my explanations were understandable.
>
> Yup, understandable. I don't necessarily agree with your guess that 3.9%
> is too high though

I don't think 3.9 is too high. There's no "too high" :)

All I wanted to say is that, despite the fact that 3.9% is small, it's 
probably no that small.

Do you have any info on what french people look on www.postgresql.org ? 
I think that some just went there to download releases and others will 
use the english manual. Is it possible to get some statistics, like the 
one Magnus blogged about, but from a specific part of the "audience" ?

(I say french people every time but some probably would be interested 
for other languages.)

> > > [...]
> > > Regardless of this, given that two people have expressed interest in
> > > translating what's there now, I'll make sure that the translation
> > > continues to work as good or bad as it previously had. Then we can
> > > improve on that in the future, once we see actual needs from actual
> > > translators.
> > So we can start working on it ? that would be pretty cool :)
>
> Of course - you've seen the howto?

Magnus gave a link to a README file. I don't if this is the HOWTO you're 
talking about. It seems pretty clear to me.


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Guillaume.