Re: wp-plugins.lst update

[Gutek <ange.gutek () gmail com>]

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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?
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.


> 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?
>
> David Fifield

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 ?


(1) http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/336
(2) http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/352
and http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/att-352/wp-plugins_pl.bin
(3) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/browse/popular/

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