Re: [Fink-i18n] Give me some input here..

[Alexander K. H. <ha...@ld...>]

On Aug 30, 2004, at 10:33 AM, D. H=F6hn wrote:

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> Hello guys and gals.
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> Please give me some input here.
> I was wondering if we should add dummy pages of those languages which=20=

> we
> do want to have as translation to the main page. The resulting page
> would be empty save for a little message saying something like "want =
to
> read this in your native tongue, help our translation team -> link".
> Then they can either click a link to get to the english pages or they
> are auto forwarded using a refresh.
>
> You might have noticed that I am running a little stats run once more.
> After 1 day of full statistics and today the stats for country
> distribution look somewhat like this:
>
> . 	1.United States    	1359    30.60%
> 	2. Japan   		598   	13.47%
> 	3. Germany   		361   	8.13%
> 	4. United Kingdom   	210   	4.73%
> 	5. France   		199   	4.48%
> 	6. Australia   		134   	3.02%
> 	7. Canada   		121   	2.72%
> 	8. Italy   		102   	2.30%
> 	9. Netherlands   	98   	2.21%
> 	10. Switzerland   	86   	1.94%
> 	11. Spain   		79   	1.78%
> 	12. Sweden   		76   	1.71%
> 	13. China   		56   	1.26%
> 	14. Norway   		52   	1.17%
> 	15. Belgium   		39   	0.88%
> 	16. Finland   		38   	0.86%
> 	17. Austria   		35   	0.79%
> 	18. New Zealand   	30   	0.68%
> 	19. Denmark   		29   	0.65%
> 	20. Korea, Republic of  25   	0.56%
>
> These are the top twenty. I guess we could extract the languages =
spoken
> in those countries and use those, including russian as well to further
> our popularity there.
>
> Ideas? Let them rip :)
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> - -d

I like the idea.  You may want to redo the statistics by language=20
rather than country (thought that's a bit harder).

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Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Levitated Dipole Experiment
175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA  02139-4213