I think the fact that it is not our data is important, but I agree that putting the link there could be a problem.
Could we not simply write that our data "comes from" or are "verified by", and then a general link ? Jan. On 19 October 2012 20:00, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >> >
