Thank you for that link Giba, that is indeed a good place to start looking at / counting the number of users in each XOOPS regional support site.
I had another idea on how you could count "general XOOPS sites" in each country (so, any site that was built with Xoops). If you do a Google search like:
".ca/modules/liaise/" site:.ca
(change the .ca to whatever domain extension your country uses, for example, .br)
This search query will show all the sites with that domain extension (.ca in this case) that have an url structure that is typical of XOOPS sites. I used the "liaise" module as well in the query as this is a module that many people use for their contact forms.
Of course, this method of counting XOOPS sites is fraught with issues as well! :) (sites in Canada may be using another domain extension, etc, etc.). But it is an additional way to compile a list of local XOOPS sites.
This could be one way to compare the general number of XOOPS sites in a country however (well, sites that use the liaise module at least). But perhaps from this "sample group", we can get an idea of the size of each community...do you agree?
".ca/modules/liaise/" site:.ca -Google gave 68 results
".br/modules/liaise/" site:.br -Google gave 272 results
".it/modules/liaise/" site:.it -Google gave 99 results
".ca/modules/liaise/" site:.ca -Google gave 68 results
".cn/modules/liaise/" site:.cn -Google gave 8 results
".com/modules/liaise/" site:.com -Google gave 15,200 results
".nl/modules/liaise/" site:.nl -Google gave 101 results
".jp/modules/liaise/" site:.jp -Google gave 791 results
".fr/modules/liaise/" site:.fr -Google gave 270 results
Who knows if this is an accurate sampling of XOOPS sites... but it does provide some interesting results!
jeffgr
www.XoopsExperts.com
