Help:WikiFactor

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The wikiFactor (wF) is a measure of the popularity of a wiki site. It is said to be based on the Hirsch-index, which is commonly used to measure the impact a scientist has had in their own published literature.

The actual wikiFactor value is calculated based on the ranking in the list of popular pages in any given MediaWiki based wiki. In this list, the most visited page is ranked number 1, the second most visited page number 2, and so forth. Please note, that this wiki concept is a purely quantitative measure. It does not say anything about how long a visitor was on that page, about the quality of the content of that page, or if the visitor got anything at all from visiting that page. Just any page hit is counted; be it from human, search engine, web spiders and robots, or other automated methods.

Now, based on the list of popular pages you can find the wF by comparing <the ranking number of that page, multiplied by one thousand (1,000)> with <the number of 'views' written right besides it>. The rank of the highest ranked page that still turns out to be higher in this comparison is the wikiFactor of that wiki.

For example a wikiFactor of, say, 10 means that page number 10 in the ranking of pages visited has received 10,000 or more visits, whereas page 11 has not yet reached 11,000 visits.

This measure was proposed by Dr Carl McBride, aka Spud Gun on arXiv.org > physics > arXiv:0902.3439 in 2009.