LanguagePack statistics

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Simos Xenitellis
<simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:12 PM, David Planella
> <david.planella at ubuntu.com> 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
>>> <david.planella at ubuntu.com> 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