On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Simos Xenitellis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:12 PM, David Planella > <[email protected]> wrote: >> El dj 31 de 03 de 2011 a les 12:56 +0530, en/na Arjuna Rao Chavala va >> escriure: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM, David Planella >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> El dl 28 de 03 de 2011 a les 09:31 +0200, en/na Oier Mees va >>> escriure: >>> >>> > Hi guys, >>> > I would like to know, if there is a possibility to know how >>> many >>> > downloads a certain LanguagePack has, in order to have an >>> approximate >>> > number of users that running Ubuntu in that language (and in >>> that >>> > distro version). >>> > Regards, >>> > Oier >>> > Coordinator of Ubuntu Basque Translators >>> >>> >>> Hi Oier, >>> >>> I think that's what you're looking for: >>> >>> http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/langpacks-by-inst.html >>> >>> Interesting to learn that the count for Telugu is 2534. But I feel >>> that not more than 20 people use Telugu as UI, based on my experience >>> on linux mailing lists and interaction with users. Does this statistic >>> record installation of a language pack rather than usage? >>> >> >> Yes, that's correct, it tracks installations, from the popcon data: >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dpm/+junk/langpacks-by-inst/view/head:/get_data.py#L33 >> > > I have been following the popcon stats in order to figure out the real > number of Greek installations of Ubuntu. > There should be a multiplier that you apply to the value that popcon > gives you, and you get the total installations for your language. > If you can get a random group of Ubuntu users in your country, you can > check their computers and verify > how many of them have actually enabled to send these popcon stats. > Then you can adjust the value that popcon gives you. > > Even if your random group is not random enough (for example, there are > advanced users who tinker every option), > then you can use this ratio to establish the lower bound of Ubuntu > users for a specific language. For example, > if half of your random group uses popcon and installed the langpack, > then AT LEAST the double of your popcon number corresponds > to the minimum of Ubuntu users for the said langpack. >
Got me a graph, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1398263/UbuntuPopCon-Graph-DRAFT.png Shows for Greek (package: language-pack-el-base) how many times it is reported as installed (now, over 17000 times). The X axis is from July 2010 up to today. Simos -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
