[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #4525: Add insights to the plugin language packs page

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#4525: Add insights to the plugin language packs page
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 Reporter:  ramiy                     |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:
Component:  Translate Site & Plugins  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion has-patch     |
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Changes (by ramiy):

 * keywords:  2nd-opinion needs-patch => 2nd-opinion has-patch


Comment:

 @tellyworth Good questions! here are the answers:

 **What is the problem that this is intended to solve?**

 Currently a plugin author don't really know how many of his language packs
 are update to the latest 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 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 with sortable columns. It will be much
 easier to detect language packs for older version.

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