Count indicators for translation requests?

So this occurred to me:

Even though most people just see them as Booleans, it turns out you can with the right script see the actual count of votes up or down given to a particular comment.

Could we do something similar with "maintenance tags" like translation_request? I'm pretty sure our translators would welcome knowing whether their efforts on a particular translation would be eagerly awaited by a large crowd or by only a handful; they could of course still pick and choose what to actually work on, but it might help them focus their efforts.

This requires quite a lot of effort to implement. Comments already have vote score, it's not boolean for the sake of more selective thresholding (you can set the level above/below 0 in the settings). Tags, on the other hand, have no thing like "score" to them; moreover, even if we'll have something act as tag score, it'll apply to tag itself, not to a tag-at-particular-post. What you're asking for is basically another value tied to the post, like favcount or post score. It's possible to add it, and there are additional benefits (like no more "translation bump" comments), but it requires another column or table at database level, more indexes (which albert is really reluctant to add), and some well-thought restrictions, such as that users don't spam "request" on every single post or that it can be used only in conjunction with present "translation request" tag, etc. I honestly don't know if it's worth the effort.