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Dear all, I have recently invented a measure of the impact of a wiki site, the 'wikiFactor'. Details are given in the paper [http://arXiv.org/abs/0902.3439 "wikiFactor: a measure of the importance of a wiki site"]. It is simple to calculate; first one goes to the [[Special:Popularpages]] page (for MediaWikis), then the wikiFactor is | Dear all, I have recently invented a measure of the impact of a wiki site, the 'wikiFactor', which is based on the popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index h-index (Wikipedia entry)], used for research citations. Details are given in the paper [http://arXiv.org/abs/0902.3439 "wikiFactor: a measure of the importance of a wiki site"]. It is simple to calculate; first one goes to the [[Special:Popularpages]] page (for MediaWikis), then the wikiFactor is | ||
the number of pages, wF, that has had more than 1000wF visits. | the number of pages, wF, that has had more than 1000wF visits. | ||
For example, the wikiFactor of [[Welcome |WikiIndex]] is 12, ''i.e.'', page 12 in the list has had more than 12,000 visits, whereas page 13 has not yet reached 13,000 visits. | For example, the wikiFactor of [[Welcome |WikiIndex]] is 12, ''i.e.'', page 12 in the list has had more than 12,000 visits, whereas page 13 has not yet reached 13,000 visits. | ||
I would like to suggest that a Category:wikiFactor could be | I would like to suggest that a Category:wikiFactor could be created, and that the value of wF be included in either the [[Template:Wiki |Wiki]] template or the [[Template:Size |Size]] template. --[[User:Spud Gun | <b><FONT COLOR="#8B3A3A">Carl McBride</FONT></b>]] ([[User_talk:Spud_Gun |talk]]) 05:34, 4 March 2009 (EST) | ||
[[Category: Proposals]] | [[Category: Proposals]] | ||