What are you working on? October 2013

David_Gerard

This is the supposedly-bimonthly-but-we-keep-skipping 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the supposedly-bimonthly-but-we-keep-skipping 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

I get almost no feedback, except that when I once in a while put a list of new translations on Facebook, some of my friends "like" them

You don't have any analytics set up to tell you how much traffic you're getting?

Hah, I completely forgot about that! Thanks!

So... when I published 6 new translated articles on September 25th and published a list of links on my Facebook page, google analytics shows that the typical noise of cca 30 "visits" on my website per day increased to 56, 94, 84 during the next three days, and then dropped to the usual noise level again. The values for "unique visitors" are almost the same, and the values for "pageviews" are cca 30% higher.

I am not sure I interpret this correctly, but seems to me that this suggests o... (read more)