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It's awesome that we've released so many!
But I don't think we're going to get to 1095, which is what I was hoping for as it would mean we were releasing 3 books a day. I suppose that's a target for next year (or rather 1098, as it's a leap year.)
But I don't think we're going to get to 1095, which is what I was hoping for as it would mean we were releasing 3 books a day. I suppose that's a target for next year (or rather 1098, as it's a leap year.)
So little space, so much to say.
I assume midnight pacific time. UTC/GMT -8 hours
It is currently 2:30 pm pacific
Esther
It is currently 2:30 pm pacific
Esther
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
*Round of applause* Here's to next year!
So little space, so much to say.
Maybe we will produce three books per day, barring any hack attacks.Lucy_k_p wrote:Here's to next year!
Here is to 2012.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
Do you have any data on how many of these books were in languages other than English, and what the year-to-year trend is for such books? Any new languages in the catalogue? It would be interesting to see if LV is really becoming more and more multilingual.
At the end of last year:
At the end of 2010, non-English books accounted for 15.25% of all completed books. At today's date, they accounted for 14.61%.
Ruth
Now:Number of completed non-English projects 624
Total number of languages 32
So +1 language and +133 non-English books in the year.Number of completed non-English projects 757
Total number of languages 33
At the end of 2010, non-English books accounted for 15.25% of all completed books. At today's date, they accounted for 14.61%.
Ruth
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Can't tell year-to-year, unless someone saved the stats from last year and right at the new year this year (Edit: which Ruthie seems to have found). Here are the overall stats:
Librivox Catalog Stats as of 03/01/12 : 16:20:04 Eastern Time (20 minutes ago)
Total number of projects 5729
Number of completed projects 5182
Number of completed non-English projects 757
Total number of languages 33
Number of languages with a completed work 31
Number of completed solo projects 2330
Number of readers 4842
...who have completed something 4680
Librivox Catalog Stats as of 03/01/12 : 16:20:04 Eastern Time (20 minutes ago)
Total number of projects 5729
Number of completed projects 5182
Number of completed non-English projects 757
Total number of languages 33
Number of languages with a completed work 31
Number of completed solo projects 2330
Number of readers 4842
...who have completed something 4680
School fiction: David Blaize
America Exploration: The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart
America Exploration: The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart
Although (I discovered this when doing research for the 5th anniversary podcast) there are way more than 33 languages featuring in some form in our catalogue. The UN Declaration of human rights has been read in a huge number of languages (I think I counted over 50, but I don't remember the exact figure.) All of these readings are part of one or two large multilingual projects, so aren't featured in the count, as this count only includes entire projects in a single language.
Also I asked for a list of the 33 and found it includes Chinese, Chinese (Mandarin) and Mandarin Chinese, due to different people entering the language in different ways. So it's not a particularly reliable indicator of anything...
But yes, more languages is always a good thing.
Also I asked for a list of the 33 and found it includes Chinese, Chinese (Mandarin) and Mandarin Chinese, due to different people entering the language in different ways. So it's not a particularly reliable indicator of anything...
But yes, more languages is always a good thing.
So little space, so much to say.
Yes, I read about many languages not being specified in the Catalogue. It's a pity we can't be sure about the exact number of languages. After all, such information could be used as an incentive for new readers/listerens
I have this list of 68 languages, which have presumably been used in (mostly multilingual) projects, but some of which are clearly not searchable in the catalogue. This needs to be put right, and is on my little list for when the software is sorted out.
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Afrikaans
Aleut
Ancient Greek
Arabic
Bengali
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Church Slavonic
Czech
Danish
Dholuo
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Farsi
Finnish
French
Friulano
Gamilaraay
Gascon
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Iloko
Indonesian
Interlingua
Irish
Iroquoian
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Khasi
Korean
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Mayan languages
Middle English
Multilingual
Nahuatl
Napoletano-Calabrese
North-American Indian
Norwegian
Old English
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Sanskrit
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Turkish
Urdu
Welsh
Yiddish
Ruth
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Afrikaans
Aleut
Ancient Greek
Arabic
Bengali
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Church Slavonic
Czech
Danish
Dholuo
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Farsi
Finnish
French
Friulano
Gamilaraay
Gascon
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Iloko
Indonesian
Interlingua
Irish
Iroquoian
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Khasi
Korean
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Mayan languages
Middle English
Multilingual
Nahuatl
Napoletano-Calabrese
North-American Indian
Norwegian
Old English
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Sanskrit
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Turkish
Urdu
Welsh
Yiddish
Ruth
My LV catalogue page | RuthieG's CataBlog of recordings | Tweet: @RuthGolding
Thanks for that list Ruth. However, while it looks awesome, some details make me think that it's not entirely reliable. Among others, it mentions:
Mayan languages
Multilingual
North American Indian
These inaccuracies, though, don't change the fact that the list is impressively long I wonder what happened to all those volunteers who recorded stuff in more exotic languages...
Mayan languages
Multilingual
North American Indian
These inaccuracies, though, don't change the fact that the list is impressively long I wonder what happened to all those volunteers who recorded stuff in more exotic languages...