Hello everyone,

Ithought some of you would be interested to know the current language statistics of Messenger Plus! so here are they, accompagned with web statistics too. The numbers shown here are precise and come directly from my auto-update statistics which count all my users once a week. On my 5.2 million users, 4.6 million use a version that sends the language info in the stats (3.00 and above) so you can count on the stats to be truthful. I also included the number of people who visit your translated web page (every week).

Statistics from October 17th 2004 (k = thousands) :

Language Name       Users-n   Users-%
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English              1,410k    26.45%
French                 760k    14.26%
Spanish (Latin)        731k    13.72%
Nederlands             602k    11.29%
Spanish (Spain)        471k     8.84%
Portuguese             461k     8.65%
Chinese Traditional    163k     3.09%
German                 101k     1.90%
Swedish                 84k     1.58%
Danish                  63k     1.18%
Chinese Simplified      62k     1.17%
Norwegian               55k     1.05%
Italian                 55k     1.04%
Thai                    52k     0.98%
Finnish                 43k     0.82%
Arabic                  42k     0.80%
Turkish                 33k     0.63%
Japanese                33k     0.63%
Hebrew                  29k     0.55%
Korean                  24k     0.46%
Hungarian               21k     0.41%
Catalan                 15k     0.29%
Estonian                 9k     0.17%
Bosnian                0.5k     0.01%
Valencian              0.5k     0.01%
Galego                 0.4k     0.01%
Indonesian             0.2k     0.01%
Afrikaans              0.2k     0.01%

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Originally posted by Patchou
Spanish (Latin)        642k    13.78%            120k

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Originally posted by Patchou
Nederlands             600k    12.87%             83k

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Originally posted by Chrono

go spanish latin

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Well patchou, all i have to say is congratulations, and that we english have downloaded it the majority, which means you can buy me something just joking, well done mate.

You will like this small picture

And sum both the Spanish variations...

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Originally posted by Mippo

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Originally posted by Patchou
Nederlands             600k    12.87%             83k

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Go Dutch! A small country with many users...

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( edit for Smethead : ) and Afrikaans

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Originally posted by Patchou
Spanish (Spain)        373k     8.00%             11k

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Originally posted by lopardo
I prefer Spanish (Spain), it matches with Windows in Spanish better  The Latin version wins because it's the default one

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Originally posted by lopardo
The Latin version wins because it's the default one   

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Originally posted by Chrono
its the default IF u dont have ur computer configurated as spanish spain, which seems kinda obvious, it should be that way 

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Originally posted by lopardo
(Windows no te tutea )

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Well, but the default should be Spanish (Spain)

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Originally posted by lopardo
Well, but the default should be Spanish (Spain) 

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Originally posted by Chrono

spanish spain is for spain ~_~ even though that doesnt mean that u aint supposed to use it. we could call these translations spanish tuteo and spanish not tuteo, but that would be nasty

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bleh whatever, lets stop this discussion, it could keep going and going.

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Originally posted by Kryptonate
btw: why is Nederlands ( edit for Smethead : ) and Afrikaans in dutch and the other languages in english?

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Wel, dis jammer van die Afrikaanse vertaling, ek het net 200 maar as 'n mens daaroor dink is dit eintlik logies...

1. Daar is nie baie Afrikaanse sagteware.
2. Mense verwag nie dat daar Afrikaanse sagteware sal wees nie dus gebruik hulle die Engelse weergawe.
3. En daar is nie baie Suid-Afrikaners wat internet het nie.

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Well... too bad about the Afrikaans translation, I only have 200 but if you think of it very logical...

1. There isn't a lot Afrikaans computer software.
2. Afrikaans people don't expect it to be in Afrikaans so they choose English.
3. In South Africa most people don't really have internet

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Oh ja gefeliciteert Cookie, nummer 4!

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Originally posted by Chrono
we could call these translations spanish tuteo and spanish not tuteo, but that would be nasty

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Originally posted by Chrono
i could make it not "tuteando", but we decided we would do it that way with choli

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well... it would be lovely to see the number of inhabitants for each country - it would make the statistic more easier to understand.

Patchou - give us a new statistic with inhabitants-count beside your user-statistic...



// Kian
Danish Translator

"lets get one thing straight - i am not"

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Originally posted by Kian
well... it would be lovely to see the number of inhabitants for each country - it would make the statistic more easier to understand.

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What a nice translation we have... 400k people can't be wrong...
It was in the ancient times that we decided to make our translation formal, and latin one informal...  in fact first I made two Spain-Spanish versions, and we choose the formal one in a poll, if my mind doesn't fail me...

spanish latin + spanish spain = 1015K ! amazing

I don't have stats with countried but I'll try toadd them inthe next version of Plus!. As for Spanish, I can confirm you that if your Windows' language is set to Spanish (Spain), Plus! will use the equivalent translation by default (if not, you can be sure that you wouldn't have such a high number of users as most people wouldn't bother to switch ).

Once again.. English Wins

Catalan (Catalonia) + Catalan (Valencia) = 11.7k



11.000 users in a 6.000.000 country is approximately a 0.183%!

0.183% of Catalan speakers use MsgPlus! (I don't count Valencian and Balearic users, I don't want to argue again).

But... last year approximately 1.014.000 families in Catalonia (48.3% of families) had at least one computer with Internet access, which means that (if you understand that only one user per family uses MsgPlus) AT LEAST 1.08% of Catalan Internet Users use MsgPlus!.

Patchou, you should be glad of Catalan users

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by Kian
well... it would be lovely to see the number of inhabitants for each country - it would make the statistic more easier to understand.

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that would make a better idea of the statistics, however the percentage of people that use internet in each country is something important too. For example, in usa there are more inhabitants than in spain, but also the percentage of people who have internet access is greater than the spanish one.

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Originally posted by Chrono
spanish latin + spanish spain = 1015K ! amazing

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Originally posted by Patchou
I don't have stats with countried but I'll try toadd them inthe next version of Plus!.

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The stats have been updated

4k more catalan users in two month's time!

Perhaps you'd say that it's because Valencian is not used anymore in Messenger Plus, but Valencian went from 0.7k to 0.5k. We the Catalans (and Valencians, of course ) are great!

English yet again on top!

English wins by loooads

IMO, English is one of the smaller countries out of all of the countries that are on the statistics list, so why are we winning, america is huge, loads of people use msn, so why don't they know god damn it.

I don't believe this , there can't be so little persons use msn in China mainland.

traxor think about what you just said
as far as i know Americans speak english. and so do many other countries ie Australia, England... lol

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Originally posted by numberzh
I don't believe this , there can't be so little persons use msn in China mainland.

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Originally posted by Patchou
French                 760k    14.26%

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French powaaaaaaaa

Still Denmark has this great aura spinning around which makes it more worth than the French translation... dont even try to beat Denmark... - we will counquer some day


// Peter
Lets get one thing straight - i am not

21k fellow Hungarians More than the population of the suburb where I live!
btw 2 months ago there were only 15k...
If we keep going up with 40% each two months, in one year we'll have 158k, and in 2006 there will be more than one million Hungarian Messenger Plus users!
You get some definite support from this small country, Patchou

When does this language-registration takes place? is it while choosing the language due installation or (also) if you change language while running the program?

// Kian
lets get one thing straight - i am not (straight)

Any stats changes for November?
Kian: I think it sends in the language selection when it first runs. Remember it also opens up the language page on msgplus.net! This is a guess though, consult Posting Freaks or above

well i thought that option (when it opens the msgplus-page when the installtion has finished)...

I dunno about stats for nov. - just currious about the stat-collector

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Originally posted by ShunterAlhena
it sends in the language selection when it first runs. Remember it also opens up the language page on msgplus.net!

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Originally posted by Kian
just currious about the stat-collector

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Originally posted by ShunterAlhena
btw Kian have you noticed that this is almost a private thread of ours according to past 2 weeks and 12 posts?

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Originally posted by Kian in the following post, probable deleted by a mod due to my report
well... i dont think anyone will see your post anyway  people stopped following this post long time ago...

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