On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:55 PM, jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is really a lot more convincing than just a number, and something to > be proud of !! >
And intriguing. It shows 62 downloads from the Vatican City. So Pope Benedict, of course. But who are the other 61 ;-) > Would it be an idea, to put a link in the on openoffice.org to this page, > e.g. in the news area with the name (download statistics) ? > It might need some scripting, since the URL includes a date range as parameters. And in general I hesitate to put a home page link to some else's database query, due to the load it could generate for them. We get 250K+ home page visits/day. That could generate a lot of queries. So maybe we could take that info periodically (it doesn't change too quickly) and put a static version up on the website. That is what we do currently for the download counts: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ -rob > Jan. > > > On 19 October 2012 19:44, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> I've seen some online traffic, on Twitter and elsewhere, questioning >> the claim in our graduation press release that AOO has been downloaded >> by users in "228 countries". The critics of this claim say that there >> are not that many countries in the world. >> >> Well, it depends on how you define things. There are UN countries. >> There are Olympic countries. There are postal countries. There are >> countries with telephone country codes. And so on. These don't all >> correspond with each other. (Look at the complexities with the status >> of Taiwan or Macedonia, for example). >> >> The definition used when looking at internet traffic is (not >> surprisingly) "internet countries", e.g., countries with an assigned >> ccTLD ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains >> ). >> In this scheme, for example, Martinique (.mq) and France (.fr) are >> two different countries, although politically Martinique is an >> overseas region, or région d'outre-mer, of France. >> >> You can see the complete list of internet countries from which AOO has >> been downloaded here: >> >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map?dates=2012-06-01+to+2012-10-19 >> >> As you can see, the number is now 232, indicating that the press >> release understated the number. >> >> Anyone who is interested can take this publicly available data and map >> it to whatever other country-counting convention they wish, whether >> based on UN membership, US diplomatic recognition, Universal Postal >> Union, or whatever. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >>
