Re: wp-plugins.lst update

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:38:59AM +0100, Gutek wrote:
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> Le 07/03/2012 04:23, David Fifield a écrit :
> > I have committed your new list. Can you share the procedure you use to
> > generate the list by popularity so we may document it?
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> Yes of course ! as I said back in 04/11 (1), I'm just using a very
> simple Perl script (2) to browse the 1.2K pages of Wordpress.org>Most
> Popular (3). If you look at those pages you'll notice that it doesn't
> seems to be sorted by downloads nor comments, so I think it's by page
> hit. I'm not aware of any per-downloads Wordpress list but it seems
> there is enough correlation between "most popular" and "downloads" that
> the top X of each of them is nearly the same, even in different order.

Sorry. I didn't rememebr that you had already posted the script. I
changed http-wordpress-plugins to allow comments in wp-plugins.lst, and
added a comment with those links to the top of the file.

> > I noticed while looking at the diff that the plugin "gtranslate" was
> > removed but a new one "gtrans" took its place. I'm assuming the plugin
> > just changed its name. Does this mean that sites using the older name
> > will not be detected?
>
> I don't know when GTranslate disappeared : back in 07/11 when Wordpress
> reached the 50M blogs it was rated 8th on the top 10 most downloaded
> plugins ever. Now it doesn't exist anymore.
> The gtrans plugin seems controversed according to it's forum and
> comments and I'm afraid that its ranking is mainly due to it's name,
> rather than real popularity (even if 382K downloads is still a
> respectable amount).
> Maybe artificially adding GTranslate to the list for a few monthes is a
> good thing ?

For the purpose of maintenance, I don't think it's worth it.

David Fifield
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