perlmeditation
Propaganda.pm_rj
<p>We have seen [http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Perl.html|some success] in the April issue of our all beloved TIOBE index. This is the result of various efforts [1023745|here @ Perlmonks] as well as other work (monks working hard on the english Wikipedia and other pages).</p>
<p>For propaganda.pm, this positive glimpse when the April numbers
were published, came not [1026743|as a surprise], because we're now
monitoring the same parameters TIOBE does, do the same computations -
on a daily basis.</p>
<p>And because we do, we now can see trends, hot spots (a.k.a. burning
issues), especially if efforts seem to "run out of juice". And of
course if search engines do weird and shady things. (Does anyone have
the email of mommy Marissa Meyer?) Currently we see again stagnation
in the overall numbers, therefore I'd like to present here the
currently most burning issue. I have set up an
[http://propaganda.pm/Main/PopularityStatusQuo|article] showing the
current status quo and discussing YouTube</p>
<p>The article describes the issue in detail and has also a call for
action, but let me paraphrase some things here for a short
summary:</p>
<p>There are (order of magnitude) about 2mio search hits for the term
"Python", there are about 80k search hits for the term "Perl". Yes not
all of these denote the programming languages, but
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers|most of them]
do. Interestingly, the quotient of these numbers and the occurence
"XXX programming" is about 100:1, so you will find 22k hits for
"Python programming" while only a little bit less than 900 for "Perl
programming" (which - BTW - are already a result of propaganda.pm
work, two weeks ago it was 800).</p>
<p>
We therefore strongly suggest, you
<ul>
<li>Fetch yourself some popcorn, nachos and favourite bewerage and
start watching the perl-related videos. There's a high chance you
will be surprised of the content and the quality you'll find
there. We were.</li>
<li>Comment on these videos, answer questions and make sure, you
mention in your comment at least once the "Perl programming
language".</li>
<li>If you have Perl-related videos on YouTube or know someone who
does, please suggest that these are tagged with "Perl programm
ing (language)"</li>
<li>Have a look at the "python programming" videos and see if some of
them couldn't be done for Perl accordingly (and containing "Perl
programming language").</li>
<li>If you have own ideas of Perl-related content on YouTube, please
make them come true.</li>
<li>Participate in Perl/Python, Perl/Ruby, Perl/PHP discussions. Be
polite, don't advocate but educate, make sure the "Perl
programming language" term is used.</li>
<li>If you have other ideas how to bridge that 900 to 22000 gap, by
all means, please try to implement them.</li>
</ul>
In general, however, there is virtually <b>NO</b> Perl-related content
on YouTube (compared to other popular scripting languages). No mass,
nothing to yield from. Let's gain mass!
</p>
<p>Despite YT only having a weight of 9% in the index, this huge
unbalance in content, drag the Perl numbers in the overall TIOBE index
down badly. Please help. Please focus your contributions on this
popular channel, which is not seldom the entry point for newbies to
programming in general.</p>
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