Map of Users

There has been a lot of discussion on Wikka about internationalization and multi-language support, which begs the question:
Where are Wikka users located?

• And perhaps: what is their native language ;) -- DarTar
  • And what other languages spoken/read/understood?' -- JavaWoman

Wikka Users Locations:

• JsnX -- Hallowell∞, Maine, USA [ Aerial Photo of Hallowell∞ ] ... I speak English ... somewhat fluently.
• DarTar -- London∞, UK (Italian native speaker, fluent French and English, maar ook een beetje Nederlands)
• GmBowen -- Fredericton∞, New Brunswick, Canada (speaker of often garbled English)
• JavaWoman -- Amsterdam (practically smack in the middle of that map)∞ (52°22' N, 4°53' E), Netherlands∞ (nice page although with a few minor factual errors) ... native language Dutch, non-native a couple of others (English and German best, also (some) French, Friesian, Spanish - and I can still count to ten in Farsi :))
• LaurentBurgbacher -- Lausanne∞, Switzerland (native language French, a bit of english, a little bit of german, fluent in esperanto∞)
• NilsLindenberg -- Göttingen, Germany (native language German, fluent in English and some Italian)
• ChiWaWa -- Vernon∞, France (native language French, fluent in technical English, a few words in german and japanese)
• KickTheDonkey -- Acworth, Ga∞ (suburb of Atlanta), United States. native English speaker (that is not to say that I speak it well). I know enough Spanish to get myself into a fight, but not enough to talk myself out of it.
• BarkerJr -- Connecticut, USA (English and a little Spanish)
• YanB -- mostly in Paris (19e), France. Theoretically native in Spanish and French and fluent in English.
• FernandoBorcel -- Guadalajara, Mexico. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Spanish as native language and fluent in English. Userbase is Spanish.. Will fight anyone who knows enough Spanish to get himself into a fight :lol:
• KarmaTester -- Miami, FL. USA. English and enough Spanish to qualify for above stated fight. Ciao, Bebe.
• MikeXstudios -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Native language: English. Can speak Chinese. I can read some French and use simple phrases like: Bon!
• IvanLanin -- Jakarta, Indonesia. Native language: Indonesia, Other language: English.
• EgilHelland -- Oslo, Norway. Native language: Norwegian. Fluent in English, understands German :)
• TimoK -- Stuttgart, Germany. Native language: German. I speak english and I can read a little spanish, dutch and latin ;)
• PivWan -- Issy les Moulineaux (near Paris), France. Theoretically native in french, fluent in english and a little german.
• GeorgePetsagourakis -- Rethynmno, Crete, Hellas. Language Skills : Hellenic, English, French, little Spanish.
• DotMG -- Antananarivo, Madagascar. Native language: Malagasy. I speak french and I have a (very) bad english.
• JasRandal -- São José dos Campos, Brazil (near São Paulo). Native language: English: Other: fluent in Portuguese.
• OmuzAdmin -- Istanbul, Turkey. Native language: Turkish Others: German, English.
• YvesFischer -- Germany, Freiburg i. Brsg. Native language: German Others: English.
• OnegWR -- Brussels∞, Belgium∞. Native language: Dutch. Others: English, French and a little German.
• KiltanneN -- New Zealand 41º 00S, 174º 00E, Currently living in New Jersey , USA. Native language: English - other languages, none apart from American ;-) but I can say hello and goodbye in lots...
• PeterPike -- Brisbane Australia, Currently living in Singapore. Native language: English - other languages, none. Absolutely love what you guys have done....
• RalphThesen -- Bonn, Germany. Native Language: German, Other Languages: English.
• NeoNeurone -- Belfort, France. Native language: Vietnamese. Other languages: French, English and Spanish. Can help with high-level design work and a little bit coding.
• DennyShimkoski -- Mclean, Virginia, USA. Native language: English. Also understand: ONE MILLION (punches in the face).
• NanoBit -- Ulm, Germany. Native language: German, other languages: English, personal website: DigitalFotoKunst∞
• SpectreMoo -- Alameda, CA, USA. Native language: English. I can read/write a very small amount of Russian.
• GiorgosKontopoulos -- Chios, Chios, Greece. Languages: Greek, English, a little spanish.
• RogerD -- Christchurch, New Zealand. English (or at least the kiwi version of it) and a smattering of handy local phrases in a few languages e.g. "One beer please" and "No, I don't want another fake Rolex" (ok, so that's only useful in certain Asia backstreets).
• CharlotteFischer -- Oakland County, Michigan (Detroit suburbs). (Native Language: English ... I recall someone saying that if you speak three languages you're tri-lingual, if you speak two languages you're bi-lingual, and if you speak one language, you're American ... I'm American and I envy those of you who can speak other languages!)
• TonZijlstra -- Enschede, Netherlands. Native language Dutch, fluent in English and German, basic French, understand Frisian.
• NickDamoulakis -- Born in Canea, Crete, GREECE, live in Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. Greek, English, German, bits of Italian and French, fragments of Chinese. Terrible accent in each and every one of them! :-)
• RyeBread -- Massachusetts, USA. Native: English (Americanized). Practiced: Spanish (Costa Rican) and German. Interested: Esperanto.
• IanHayhurst -- Bracknell, Berkshire UK. Native language: English (embarasingly little of anything else)
• ChrisH -- Lakewood, CO Native: English (and I know a little Australian as well)
• JonathanMitchem -- Springfield, MO, USA. Native: English. Formally studied: French. Informally studied: Esperanto, Italian, Russian, Chinese
• PietroSperoni -- Roma, Italy; Jena, Germany. Native: Italian. Formally studied: English. Embarassingly bad studied: French. (Note: although I now live in Germany I speak no German)
• LordMax -- Turin, Italy. Native: Italian. Formally studied: English. bad : French. Really bad : Spanish
• RolandStens -- Vancouver, BC Canada. Native language: Dutch. Fluent in English, adequate in German, pathetic in French and a naive amateur in a few more languages (mainly enough to get myself drunk, fed or a hotel).
• SiDoNeY -- Sydney, Australia. English only (although some would call it Strine).
• WigAnt -- Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Born in the Netherlands, native language: Dutch. Fluent in English and German, some knowledge of French and Spanish.
• TormodHaugen -- Hønefoss, Norway. Native language: Norwegian, probably fluent in English.
• SanTiago -- Chile, SouthAmerica.Native language Spanish. Practiced: english
• DevNet -- Midlothian, Virginia, USA - a suburb of Richmond, VA. I speak English and Spanish.
• BulletCard -- Austin∞, Texas, USA. I speak English, a little French, and even less Russian.
• LadySerena -- Trinidad, Colorado, USA - Owner of Varus Online∞.
• YodaHome -- Magdeburg, Germany. Native language: German. Fluent english, understand some French.
• DbieL -- Suburb east of Los Angeles, California, USA - Native language: English
• KlausBrune -- Carson, California, USA (the South Bay area of Los Angeles) -- Native language: English
• LeMat -- Madrid, Spain (Barrio de las Letras) -- Native spanish... from Argentina. Speaks spanish and english
• JoeWalker -- Toowoomba, Australia -- English
• DavePreston -- Chorley∞, Lancashire, UK -- Native language: English, reasonable in French
• BlackSun -- Istanbul, Turkey -- Native Language: Turkish -- hasat.org : wikipedi style but realy free wiki site.∞
• BaxilDragon -- Grass Valley, CA, USA (northeast of Sacramento) - Native language: English
• MasinAlDujaili -- Berlin, Germany - Native language: German. Speaks also English
• DaC -- near Bonn, Germany - Native language: German, fluent English, very good Spanish, a little French :-)
• ChewBakka -- Gießen, Germany - native language German, often using English, trying to learn "hello" in many terran languages. Ni hau!
• WillyPs -- Pembroke, New Hampshire, USA. Speaking English only, with a bit of a Maine accent ;)
• BrianKoontz -- Garland∞, Texas, USA. Native language: English. Very rudimentary Spanish.
• WyRd -- Hickory, North Carolina, USA. Native language: English. Everyone here says I have an accent. :)
• KairoMiami -- Basel, Switzerland. Going for Genfusion with http://www.genfusion.info∞, a page for New genetics and New Bioethics. I Speak German, English, French and Swedish
• PaulP -- Taos, New Mexico. (36N24 105W34) -- English, French, just enough Spanish, Russian and Mandarin to get seriously confused.

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Usermap software

It would be nice to create a user map. Check the following links for examples:
http://www.mirc.net/map/∞
http://cpdn.comlab.ox.ac.uk/map/∞
http://www.phpbb.com/map.php∞
piranha-fury.com∞ Nice static usermap by continent - source not available
Yabb membermap∞ Idem - it's a Perl module∞ for the Yabb forum
phpnuke.org∞ Flash map for phpnuke - source not available

• last link doesn't show any map for me - anyone else have that problem? -- JW
  • Works fine for me on Mac OS X + Safari - have you installed a flash plugin? -- DarTar
• Ah. No Flash (I don't do Flash, actively or passively) -- JW
  • Maybe you know of a good Java alternative ;) -- DarTar

Any suggestions on an easy way to create a user map?

• Specifying latitude and longitude would be a start (so I did) -- JavaWoman
  • Uhm, I think there is a lot of software of this kind around, mostly Flash or Java - see these links∞
    Next step: a usermap Wikka action! -- DarTar

• Just stumbled onto an awesome mapping service - maybe we could somehow "borrow" from that?
  I found it via a map thumbnail on a blog page, which linked to this map∞ (just to show you an example) where you can "zoom" into continents as well. See links at the bottom to HitMaps∞ and BuddySpace∞ for how this is done.
  (Needless to say, I immediately added this to my travel blog∞!)
  -- JavaWoman

• More pages about mapping that someone just pointed me to: FreeGIS∞ and MapServer∞ - note the mention of PHP on the last.
  --JavaWoman

• The Yabb-Mod mentioned above unfortunatly is not licensed under the GPL, I would translate it to php if it were.

But an action for this would be really cool, I will start thinking about the how and the when :) Since I have been bored a lot lately chances are not to bad I will come up with something soon.
--TimoK

• Google just released Google Maps API∞, perhaps we can use it to track Wikka's users? But it's still in beta state. --PivWan
  • Google likes Beta-status :) But I've opened up GoogleMap. --NilsLindenberg

• A free service that allows the creation of usermaps through Google Maps API and allows integration into external websites: http://www.mapbuilder.net/∞
  And here's a test usermap:
  -- DarTar
  • Forget about this, it is so much better to directly use the Google Maps API, as suggested by PivWan and NilsLindenberg. Here's a first test∞ of a {{googlemap}} action -- DarTar
    • Hmm, the location of JsnX on those two maps is rather different, DarTar... I think the one on the MapBuilder map is (more) correct. But that map is otherwise a bit behind the times. Care to update it a little? Or maybe just remove that one and correct JsnX's location on your test map... --JavaWoman

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