Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:54:26 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/data index.html Message-ID: <19980111175426.39798@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980110122847.1419N-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 01:04:06PM -0500 References: <p1in2h45k0m.fsf@panke.panke.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980110122847.1419N-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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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 <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/
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