Re: Give me some input here..

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Michèle Garoche wrote:

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| Le 30 août 2004, à 16:33, D. Höhn a écrit :
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|> [snip]
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|> 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%
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| It is not very useful as is, if I take only the States where people may
| speak French:
| France, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium
|
| but in the last three ones, you have also another language(s):
| Canada: English
| Switzerland: German, Italian, Roman
| Belgium: Dutch, German
|
I know. See my second mail which I just sent :)
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| There are two problems here: first languages for which no pages are not
| translated at all and need a debut, the dummy pages maybe useful here.
That is the only occasion where I would use it.

| Though I don't find the refresh or click very user-friendly, but I
| cannot think of another way to do it, maybe a refresh is better than a
| click, provided that the delay is very short, but hence you may not have
| the opportunity to read the message.

The delay has to be long enough that the message has been read. We can
set a cookie on that page so that the user does not visit the page
again. There are lots of ways to make it more user friendly. I just
think that we need to draw attention that way, it is an opportunity and
we should not let it pass by.
|
| Second, languages for which some pages are already translated, here a
| message at the top of the main page seems better to me. The message is
| here, (maybe translated into the language, better than in English), but
| the user can read the pages already translated.

Yes of course.

|
| I think that a message in a native Mac forum may give more feedback. And
| also a real support on the mailing list.
|
For that you would need someone capable of speaking both. English and
the native language. The system I am proposing indirectly verifies that
they are capable of doing both. Of course such a template can also
explain how then could help and what they can do to spread the word and
get better feedback from their community.

- -d

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