{"id":48,"date":"2009-10-09T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=48"},"modified":"2009-10-22T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T17:52:10","slug":"userbase-looks-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2009\/10\/userbase-looks-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"UserBase looks to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week almost over, so what is happening in UserBase?\u00a0 Well, the translation effort continues, and we have some new pages this week &#8211; Yakuake, Rekonq, Tutorials\/TweakingPlasma and Blogilo &#8211; as well as a lot of smaller updates.\u00a0 We now have 805 pages of content, with 1,437,927 views.\u00a0 As you see, it is growing healthily.<\/p>\n<p>This section of the statistics caught my eye &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Most viewed pages<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nKontact\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0222,467<br \/>\nWelcome to KDE UserBase\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0183,468<\/p>\n<p>For a long time GPU-Performance topped the list, but now only has 45,401.\u00a0 I wonder if this means that there are fewer problems with graphics drivers?<\/p>\n<p>The page <a href=\"http:\/\/userbase.kde.org\/Applications\/Internet\">http:\/\/userbase.kde.org\/Applications\/Internet<\/a> is almost complete, except for the Networking section, and there I need to ask for help from someone who uses remote desktop.\u00a0 I need entries for KRDC, Krfb and KVpnc.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t use them myself, and after reading what I could find, didn&#8217;t feel competent to write those.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current User Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We now have 580 registered users, an increase of 80 in 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>And here are the top 10 of the week&#8217;s contributors.<br \/>\nScore\u00a0 Pages\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Changes\u00a0 Username<br \/>\n67 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 60 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 71 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Annew<br \/>\n40 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 33 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 47 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Qiii2006<br \/>\n17 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Claus chr<br \/>\n11 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kolia<br \/>\n11 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yurchor<br \/>\n09 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just<br \/>\n06 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ????? (Apologies if the Chinese characters don&#8217;t display)<br \/>\n06 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 3 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Andrei natanael<br \/>\n06 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 6 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 6 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alisha<br \/>\n05 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 3 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gdebure<\/p>\n<p>Half of those are people who were not in the last list I published, which is very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday I invited you to come and talk to me on #userbase, and I&#8217;m pleased to say that severl people did.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We have not yet set a date, but it will probably be in a week or so.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll make sure that the date is publicised.<\/p>\n<p>In outline, we discussed the following:<\/p>\n<p>* There is a lack of consistency of approach.\u00a0 Many pages follow a common form, but several don&#8217;t.<br \/>\n* Currently there&#8217;s no obvious way of knowing how recently the page was written or edited.\u00a0 Considering the rate of change in KDE 4, this is significant.<br \/>\n* A question was asked about the usefulness of a rating system, and its feasibility<br \/>\n* A number of applications were identified that currently have no entry<br \/>\n* Some new applications are strictly Qt, rather than KDE.\u00a0 How should we deal with that?<br \/>\n* Some sort of visual tour, possibly video, was proposed as an introduction to KDE<br \/>\n* There is still no working solution to the problems that require access to the servers<br \/>\n* UserBase still lacks visibility.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Some suggestions for improving visibility were proposed.<\/p>\n<p>I consider that some very useful exchanges of opinion and ideas were made, and I hope you&#8217;ll join us to discuss these and any other comments you have.\u00a0 At the moment we are still using #userbase, but any day now we will be on #kde-userbase.\u00a0 See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics show a healthy growth in UserBase, but the community are also aware of changes that are needed for it to continue to improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,6],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","tag-kde","tag-userbase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}