GEO User Profiles and Scenarios

Purpose

To evaluate navigation of GEO site in terms of user task.
To address user tasks can be accomplishe with GEO site.

QUESTION: Is is part of the Core's review remit of W3C specs to add relevant pointers to GEO information?

Cross check with Susan's Getting Started

User profiles

Experienced developers who need i18n information from a trusted source.
Inexperienced developers who need i18n information.
Client-side/server-side proportions?
Managers of web sites

QUESTION: Are GEO site users people working with languages other than English only? Possibly when they come directly to the GEO site, less likely when they are pointed to the GEO site from other resources, eg, HTML tidy. If language markup/information is required for all web resources, how to extend GEO advice to monolingual English sites?

Scenarios

Entry points

Navigation from W3C homepage.
Navigation from GEO homepage.
Recommended link.
Search from within & without W3C site.
Pointers from other information resources both within & without the W3C site.

Tasks

Getting Started, eg, I need to internationalize my site, where do I start? How do I evalute the difficulty?
Getting Started, eg, I publish web pages in English, what should I do about language?
Overview, eg, what is this language tag stuff? why should I do this?
Syntax, eg, how do I put information about language in my page?
Validation/checklist, are my pages correct in terms of i18n?
Trouble-shooting, eg, I get question marks in my page, why?
UAs, how well do they support i18n?

= Common tasks

QUESTION: What do other developer resources indicate? QUESTION: What do GEO stats reveal? QUESTION: Survey, what do users say?