terry
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Post by terry on Jul 7, 2016 3:46:13 GMT -8
are you happy with the traffic trends peter?
It is kind of hard to fathom a sudden increase in traffic from argentina simply because a spanish translation appeared. You mean 'every day people from argentina have been googling for a spanish rocket heater site' and when it appears all their prayers are suddenly answered?
It seems really odd to me, yet it would be hard to put down as simply co-incidence.
Maybe just one of those 'internet things'.
I hope they did not slavishly translate, last time I looked I was appalled at the number of excessive quotation marks I used. One of those silly little personal habits that are fine in normal forum discourse, yet over the top and jarring when done in as more formal setting like your website.
Feel free to remove them at your whim! That is assuming that it jars with you too, perhaps you don't particularly notice because english is not your first language.
I'm kinda too embarrassed to read it again!
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Post by peterberg on Jul 7, 2016 6:46:37 GMT -8
The trend is more traffic, it feels like people are interested at least. Pablo Kulbaba, the Spanish translator lives in Argentina and announced two days ago the existence of the site on a Facebook page about alternative means of heating. He's also doing workshops and giving lectures about the subject. So that's why there's a lot more traffic from the Spanish speaking world.
The translations are pretty good as far as I can tell, nobody made a remark about quotation marks yet and they are pretty critical so don't worry.
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Post by peterberg on Aug 1, 2016 3:50:28 GMT -8
Recent additions are articles in the Spanish and French versions of the "Applications" chapter. Not ready yet, but both are quite close.
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Post by peterberg on Aug 2, 2016 8:47:07 GMT -8
The French translator, Yasin Gach, just completed the translation of the entire site. When French is your first language, please see batchrocket.eu/fr/ |
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Post by peterberg on Aug 10, 2016 2:50:09 GMT -8
As of today, the Workings chapter made it into Slovenian, thanks to Klemen Urbanija. The Slovenian section is reached easiest at batchrocket.eu/slo |
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Post by peterberg on Aug 21, 2016 8:53:50 GMT -8
Another chapter is translated into Slovenian, so Building is ready now.
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Post by peterberg on Sept 5, 2016 7:24:21 GMT -8
The chapter "Designs" is translated into Slovenian by Klemen Urbanija and published at the batchrocket website. So the SketchUp drawings of the respective core designs are available now in this language version. |
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Post by peterberg on Sept 8, 2016 7:33:27 GMT -8
Another part of the Applications chapter is translated into Spanish by Pablo Kulbaba. When Spanish is your first language, see batchrocket.eu/es/aplicaciones. |
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terry
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Post by terry on Sept 14, 2016 13:22:57 GMT -8
Hi Peter
I suppose it has been a few months now since your site has been completed.
How has it been going from your point of view?? I recall at some stage you saying 'I have been sitting here smiling and looking at the number of hits' (or similar). Most of us here would feel some degree of 'second hand ownership' and would be rooting for you!
So have you been able to see 'trends'. Any particular country showing more interest than others?? Have you seen seasonal trends (dunno, summer in NH and hits drop off whilst hits rise in winter in SH, stuff like that) or is it way too early to tell.
Have any questions come up with any sort of regularity that indicates where changes/improvements in explanations are needed?? Conversely, does any of the data available to you indicate that it seems the explanations are adequate and most can grasp what you wanted them to grasp.
I guess when you first conceived of your site you had mental goals that you would like the site to achieve, how has the reality lined up (so far at least) with your mental picture.
Personally I hope it is getting those results! but that is something none of us have any real control over.
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Post by peterberg on Sept 15, 2016 7:24:58 GMT -8
Hi Terry,
Yes, there are trends, so far been caused by individuals as far as I know of. When you click on the flag counter at the bottom of one of the pages, you'll get the statistics for the site. When "history" is clicked, you'll see a diagram which is reflecting the last 30 days. Switching to 3 months will reveal a sharp peak at July 6th, which consists nearly all of people from Argentina. This spike was initiated by a lecture held at a university in Buenos Aires by Pablo Kulbaba, the translator of the Spanish version. He placed the link and a picture on MardelFuego's Facebook page at the same day as well. Further down the list there's another, albeit smaller, spike on May 8th, one or two days after the English translation of the red bell came online.
Apart from those occasional surges there's a slow trend to slightly more new readers. On the first page of the flag counter there's also the average from the last 30 days in numbers which crept up from 20 to 49 a day at present in the course of 5 months time. Total readers compared to new readers is just over 3 times as much, this has been this way very consistently. It is possible that the slow rise in averages is caused by the imminent fall in the northern hemisphere, but I'm not really convinced about that.
The majority (95%) of questions I get about the available data are from the translators, which is quite understandable. When I started this, I envisioned a bi-lingual site. It's multi-lingual now which is way more than I expected, reaching to a far wider public. I was already very satisfied by something like 400 new readers in the first month, so it's rising above expectations. Data usage is quite large now, about 8 Gb a month on downloaded files alone.
The next thing is adding new examples and hopefully also some new developments. When temperatures are going down a bit over here I'll restart a promising new experiment on a batch rocket variant which is more compact but not a sidewinder. Can't tell more about it at this time, it's far from being a heater core yet.
When the results are good I hope you would be willing and able to help with the translated text once again.
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terry
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Post by terry on Sept 20, 2016 13:10:10 GMT -8
Of course I would be most willing to help further if needed. I hope any future translations/help I give will be more acceptable to myself after a few weeks haha.
The main point I wanted to make now was that it is possible my visiting here might start to drop off. I'd guess about another three weeks max and it will be the end of heating for the year. It is possible then as summer comes around other interests may take over for a few months.
So if that happens and you have made the above post (say) and I don't respond then please by all means email me to alert me to it. I'll probably be off 'enjoying summer' or something along those lines rather than being not interested in helping or ignoring you.
Or probably more accurately, cursing the summer heat and flies hahaha.
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Post by peterberg on Sept 21, 2016 3:09:22 GMT -8
Thanks Terry,
I'll keep that in mind and email you directly when I need help. Enjoy summer while I will enjoy winter since I will be allowed to fire up the heater in a month or so. Jippee!
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Post by peterberg on Oct 5, 2016 11:29:35 GMT -8
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Post by peterberg on Oct 30, 2016 9:14:57 GMT -8
Pablo Kulbaba finally completed the Spanish translation. He also led a workshop to build a 10" batch box rocket heater, the first as far as I am aware of. See batchrocket.eu/en/building#dimension |
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Post by peterberg on Nov 22, 2016 3:39:29 GMT -8
As of today, Klemen Urbanija completed the Slovenian translation of the Batchrocket site. See batchrocket.eu/slo/ if Slovenian is closer to your home language. I am looking for a person who's willing to translate the site truthfully in Russian or another large language. Any takers? |
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