From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jan 11 13:49:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA09957 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:49:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09920 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous222.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.222]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01447; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:43:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id RAA01076; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:54:27 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980111175426.39798@panke.de> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:54:26 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: John Fieber Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/data index.html References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 01:04:06PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 1998-01-10 13:04:06 -0500, John Fieber wrote: > So long as mirrors are only English, and non-English resources > are not mirrored, having one server list works. The introduction > of universally mirrored translations (Japanese) necessitates > making a distinction between mirrored non-English things an > non-mirrored non-English things. It would be impractical to list > English and Japanese versions of every site in the mirror list, > never mind if German, Czech, and Portugese become universally > mirrored in the future. Translation is hard work and need much time. We have currently 5MB SGML documentation. If you must pay ~3USD/KB then you need 15,000 USD for every translation. I did a quick analyse for the german web pages. Before your change, in average 18 users/day came from freebsd.org (http referer field). After your change only 3 users/day. Thats more than 80% less ;-(( -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/