LanguagePack statistics

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Anders Jenbo <anders at jenbo.dk> wrote:
> Den 01-04-2011 21:57, Simos Xenitellis skrev:
>>
>> hows 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
>
> Can you share this so could charts for other langs?
> The X axis could do with better labeling.
>

I simply used LibreOffice Calc to plot the graph, using historical
values derived from
http://popcon.ubuntu.com/main/translations/by_inst

It was pointed to me that we may need to interpret more carefully the numbers.
Can you all give input for the following?

1. This is the description of the numbers that PopCon provides:

#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
#        regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
#        information (atime and ctime were 0).

2. Here is the line for Greek, as given by the PopCon website (above URL
language-pack-el-base          17646  1500 12065   126  3955 (Language
Pack Maintainers)

which means
  17646: number of [unique computers] who installed this package EVER
[when was PopCon first made available?]
    1500: number of [unique computers] who use this package regularly [DEFINE?]
  12065: install but not use regularly [DEFINE?]
       126: number of [unique computers] that upgraded recently [How
is recent calculated?]
    3955: number of [unique computers] that somehow did not provide
usage information. [What does this mean?]

3. You can run 'popularity-content' manually, and you get the output
printed on your screen (it is not sent).
You simply run
   /usr/sbin/popularity-contest

For 'language-pack-el' it says

1301743371 1301585463 language-pack-el-base
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions/langpack-el at firefox.mozilla.org.xpi
1301689879 1301605804 libreoffice-l10n-el
/usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.3/program/resource/fps_officeel.res
<RECENT-CTIME>
0 0 language-pack-el <NOFILES>
0 0 language-pack-gnome-el <NOFILES>
0 0 myspell-el-gr <NOFILES>
0 0 gnome-user-guide-el <NOFILES>
0 0 language-support-writing-el <NOFILES>
0 0 libreoffice-help-el <NOFILES>
0 0 language-support-el <NOFILES>
0 0 language-pack-gnome-el-base <NOFILES>
0 0 language-support-fonts-el <NOFILES>

The first two columns are 'epoch times' that you can convert to normal
times with http://www.epochconverter.com/

I understand that I can get more information if I look closely to the
'popularity-content' source code and do more tests.
It would be great if someone could compare with their system and build
on the above, and add more answers.

Simos