Should a form of this appear on the AOO blog? Don
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:12 PM, jan iversen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:55 PM, jan iversen <[email protected]> >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >>
