Re: Language data

Magnus Hagander a écrit :
>>> [...]
>> 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 ?
>>
>> 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.
>
> Sure, that's definitly an interesting discussion. If you're interested
> in doing some "real analysis" along that line, I'll be happy to give you
> access to view the statistics reports for www.postgresql.org, as long as
> you promise to report your findings to the list :)
>

OK, let's do it. Of course, I'll report what I found to the list.

>>> Now, looking at geographical distribution, it's quite different:
>>> United States 21.5%
>>> Germany 7.0%
>>> Brazil 6.5%
>>> Japan 4.6%
>>> Poland 4.1%
>>> France 4.0%
>>> United Kingdom 4.0%
>>>
>>> Adding up English speaking countries in the top list (US, UK, Canada and
>>> Australia), we have about 30%. Which clearly shows that a lot of people
>>> outside English speaking countries have their browsers set for English
>>> as their primary choice - just like me ;-)
>>>
>> Or they are just using default options. That's what they have when they
>> download an english Firefox or a beta release.
>
> Sure, but that works the other way around in IE. For example, even if I
> install *English* IE versions, it will select Swedish language by
> default simply because I said I wanted Swedish date/time style. While we
> have some more firefox users than IE, I think it pretty much evens out
> in the end, really.
>

I kind of agree with you. And people downloading a Firefox beta release
are the kind of people who can read English, event if that's not their
native language.

>>> [...]
>>> 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 :)
>
> Yes, but please only start working on the *templates* part. The .po
> files will likely be noticeably different once I commit my changes
> (almost there, but a few details to go), so there's not much point in
> starting with that yet.
>

OK, I begin right now.

--
Guillaume.
<!-- http://abs.traduc.org/
http://lfs.traduc.org/
http://docs.postgresqlfr.org/ -->