Add insights to the plugin language packs page

[ramiy]

This ticket is about the Plugin language packs page.

​https://wordpress.org/plugins/site-health-manager/ (Main plugin page)
​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/site-health-manager/
​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/site-health-manager/contributors/
​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/site-health-manager/language-packs/ (This page)

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The main plugin page displays the number of languages the plugin has ( on the sidebar - ​Languages: See all 9 ).

The problem is that the number of languages is not the same as the number of updated languages. It only represents the total language packs created.

I would like to see in the plugin language packs page more data, not only a dumb list. I would like to see insights and maybe a graph like the one we currently have in the contributors page.

Extra data to display:

• Total number of language packs
• Current plugin version
• The number of packs for the current version
• The number of packs for older version.
• Pie Chart displaying languages packs by version.

The chart can show plugin developers if the languages packs are mainly for obsolete versions or for the latest version. This single chart is much more useful than the list of languages.

[tobifjellner]

Almost only the plugin developer himself/herself may know how big differences there are in the strings between various versions.
This can still be a good piece of information to add.

But perhaps even better might be some graphics/diagram based on "How many percent of the strings in current stable version are translated in the latest available language pack". However – this metric can be demanding to create: If a plugin previously was translated to, say, 98% then a language pack got created, since the threshold of 95% was met. If later new strings were added, the translated percentage may have dropped to 50%. Even if someone after that again translated 40% and brought the translation to 90%, the latest language pack still matches only 50% of the strings.

[ramiy]

initial patch (not tested)

[tellyworth]

What is the problem that this is intended to solve? How would a plugin author make use of this data? What would it enable them to do?

[ramiy]

@tellyworth Good questions! here are the answers:

What is the problem that this is intended to solve?

Currently a plugin author doesn't really know how many of his language packs are updated to the latest plugin version. Unless he manually extracts the data from the language packs list - counting them one by one.

How would a plugin author make use of this data?

With this data, plugin authors can decide whether to focus resources on translations. For example if over 95% of my language packs are updated to the latest plugin version I will do nothing, but if only 40% of the language packs are updated to the latest version I will spend time translating my plugin or hire someone to do that.

What would it enable them to do?

Insights is the first step for better decision making. I'm sorry to say, but the language pack list is a useless list of raw data. A single pie chart provides a better visual representation of the data.

If you want to allow the plugin author do something on the page, we can replace the list with a table containing sortable columns. It will be much easier to detect language packs for older plugin version.

[ramiy]

@tellyworth Any updates?

[casiepa]

Some updates after https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/9721:

• All language packs will be for the latest version, so there will be no old language packs for previous versions anymore
• Probably the only change still useful would be from @tobifjellner note: How many percent of the strings in current stable version are translated in the latest available language pack