Re: Can we measure Fedora users by language?

Hello everyone,

I think it's important, particularly related to less translated or less popular languages.  I know many people who will stick to default (English) or choose a language or localisation that is not theirs because the one that would correspond to their language or area is deficient in one way or another. 

But I don't see any need to track people.  Just using statistics, or maybe a short survey.

Kind regards,

Silvia

FAS: Lailah

On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 09:39, Jean-Baptiste <jean-baptiste@holcroft.fr> wrote:

Le 17 août 2018 22:06:54 GMT+02:00, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> a écrit :
>* do the translations increase the number of Fedora users?
>* are there languages not really used by Fedora users?

The fact that we are asking the first question publicly without raising any comment worries me.
While the answer and collected data will be interesting, the way it is written really sounds like business oriented to me.

When I read it, I wonder: do the Fedora community really don't know about the value of translated content to users?

I'm confused, because this doesn't reflect the discussion we had in the past. Either with our or other i18n contributors.

The research for measuring is something I started and talked about in Boston:
https://jibecfed.fedorapeople.org/pr%c3%a9sentations/2017-08-31%20Flock%20L10N%20Talk.pdf

There is almost no way to measure "needs" and bias are enormous, but there is some ways about "results" measurements.

I'm unsure we should go in the direction of user tracking like companies, and go with conviction, as the floss contributor we are.

In the meanwhile, we can have any statistics we want about the user impact, but even the basic statistics about our activity is missing. How may are we and what do we do?
Hi,

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