Re: Give me some input here..

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Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

| On Aug 30, 2004, at 10:33 AM, D. Höhn wrote:
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|> Hello guys and gals.
|>
|> Please give me some input here.
|> I was wondering if we should add dummy pages of those languages which 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 :)
|>
|> - -d
|
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| I like the idea.  You may want to redo the statistics by language rather
| than country (thought that's a bit harder).
|
The tracking tool does provide such information but it is falesified,
since many in China do not bother to set their main language to zh but
leave it at en. I would have to do that manually. no big issue though

- -d

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