Thread:Support/Figures on Special:Mainpage questionable./reply (3)

If you want, we could add a short paragraph, defining the statistics shown on the new main page, to the bottom of the Translating:Statistics page.

The number of translations and reviews in the past month are good statistics to show - it shows how active the site is in the reader's language. Except that when the site language is English it's just a blank. Even that's not too bad as the ULS giving the reader a chance to change the language is very near to that box. The title "translations/month" needs changing to "translations (last 30 days)" and "reviews (last 30 days).

Are the number of projects, translators and messages totals, including any items without any activity over the past 30 days?

Number of languages: the number of languages listed in Special:SupportedLanguages is always going to be unrealistically big, because languages which have been inactive for a long time are included. Showing the number of languages which have been worked on in the past 30 days is nice. But showing "x languages" without explaining where the figure comes from is confusing, and not particularly impressive to people who think it means that translatewiki.net only deals with x=about 100 languages in total. If you don't want a link on the main page, how about either a tooltip on the number of languages, or a link to a small footnote at the bottom of the main page, to explain the figure?