AnneW's world

Another week almost over, so what is happening in UserBase?  Well, the translation effort continues, and we have some new pages this week – Yakuake, Rekonq, Tutorials/TweakingPlasma and Blogilo – as well as a lot of smaller updates.  We now have 805 pages of content, with 1,437,927 views.  As you see, it is growing healthily.

This section of the statistics caught my eye –

Most viewed pages
Kontact    222,467
Welcome to KDE UserBase    183,468

For a long time GPU-Performance topped the list, but now only has 45,401.  I wonder if this means that there are fewer problems with graphics drivers?

The page http://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Internet is almost complete, except for the Networking section, and there I need to ask for help from someone who uses remote desktop.  I need entries for KRDC, Krfb and KVpnc.  I don’t use them myself, and after reading what I could find, didn’t feel competent to write those.

Current User Statistics

We now have 580 registered users, an increase of 80 in 10 days.

And here are the top 10 of the week’s contributors.
Score  Pages    Changes  Username
67        60           71            Annew
40        33           47           Qiii2006
17        15           16            Claus chr
11          8           11            Kolia
11          8           11            Yurchor
09          5           10            Just
06        3          6          ????? (Apologies if the Chinese characters don’t display)
06           3            6            Andrei natanael
06           6            6            Alisha
05           3           4             Gdebure

Half of those are people who were not in the last list I published, which is very encouraging.

Last Monday I invited you to come and talk to me on #userbase, and I’m pleased to say that severl people did.  We had a long conversation, at the end of which we decided that we must record our discussion in a shared document with a view to calling a meeting for anyone interested to discuss possible changes in UserBase.  We have not yet set a date, but it will probably be in a week or so.  I’ll make sure that the date is publicised.

In outline, we discussed the following:

* There is a lack of consistency of approach.  Many pages follow a common form, but several don’t.
* Currently there’s no obvious way of knowing how recently the page was written or edited.  Considering the rate of change in KDE 4, this is significant.
* A question was asked about the usefulness of a rating system, and its feasibility
* A number of applications were identified that currently have no entry
* Some new applications are strictly Qt, rather than KDE.  How should we deal with that?
* Some sort of visual tour, possibly video, was proposed as an introduction to KDE
* There is still no working solution to the problems that require access to the servers
* UserBase still lacks visibility.  It rarely gets picked up, for instance, in a google search, even though we may have an authoratative answer to a problem, while dubious mailing list answers are found.  Some suggestions for improving visibility were proposed.

I consider that some very useful exchanges of opinion and ideas were made, and I hope you’ll join us to discuss these and any other comments you have.  At the moment we are still using #userbase, but any day now we will be on #kde-userbase.  See you there!