[sword-devel] Web Interface

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:59:05 EST

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In a message dated 2/22/2003 9:16:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
chrislit@crosswire.org writes:

> Okay, my guestimates were off.  I ran statistics on our downloads in the
> last 5 weeks 76% of downloads were of English modules, 17% were of other
> Latin script modules, 4% were of original language modules, and 4% were of
> modules using other scripts that text-mode unix can handle (Hebrew, Greek,
> &Cyrillic), and the remaining 2% were of modules in other scripts
> (Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Thai, &Tamil)

Also, you are totally confused about the "USER". You are caculating those 
users who DOWNLOAD the modules and will use it OFFLINE since they already 
down load them. You are not caculate those user who will use it online.

Here are some number of total Internet number

<A HREF="http://www.glreach.com/globstats/">http://www.glreach.com/globstats/</A>

and
<A HREF="http://www.nua.com/surveys/how_many_online/index.html">http://www.nua.com/surveys/how_many_online/index.html</A>

Of course, different language/regions have different % of Christian to use 
the SWORD project. And it also depend on if you make the software localized 
to their language or not. If you ship a pure Chinese localized software 
without shipping a English user interface, I bet you will get < 1% of English 
user who want to use it. Same thing as your SWORD project? It is amazing you 
can even got those number who download your non English modules from a pure 
English web site.

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Also, you are totally confused about the "USER". You are caculating those us=
ers who DOWNLOAD the modules and will use it OFFLINE since they already down=
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Here are some number of total Internet number<BR>
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<A HREF=3D"http://www.glreach.com/globstats/">http://www.glreach.com/globsta=
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<A HREF=3D"http://www.nua.com/surveys/how_many_online/index.html">http://www=
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