Talk:WikiFactor

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It's certainly worth considereng. Proxima Centauri 08:05, 4 March 2009 (EST)

I like your "wikiFactor" :-) - for MediaWikis, number_of(edits)/number_of(good_pages) is interesting too. --Wolf | talk 10:00, 4 March 2009 (EST)

I'm not sure I understand this

hmm TedErnst | talk 14:52, 5 March 2009 (EST)

Lets have a look on our wiki:
Popular pages (of WikiIndex):
Position (p)
most visited first
Page name (views) Relation
views [<=>] 1000*p
1. Welcome ?(572,833 views) 572,833 >  1,000
2. Bulbapedia ?(42,344 views) 42,344 >  2,000
3. Community Portal ?(28,489 views) 28,489 >  3,000
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11. Wiki.ThePPN ?(14,724 views) 14,724 > 11,000
12. Books ?(12,807 views) 12,807 > 12,000
13. TourBusStop ?(12,371 views) 12,371 < 13,000
If you count the entries with views > 1000*p (marked with green) you get the wikiFactor (12 for WikiIndex). I hope this helps. Greetings from Berlin --Wolf | talk 03:07, 6 March 2009 (EST)
Thanks for the illustration Wolf. That is precisely how the wikiFactor is calculated. The wikiFactor is not an indication of the size of a wiki, but rather the interest that a wiki has attracted. It is entirely feasible to populate a wiki with many 'uninteresting' pages, that attract very few visits other than the Main Page. The wikiFactor is based on the highly popular (at least amongst the scientific community) h-index (Wikipedia entry). -- Carl McBride (talk) 05:39, 6 March 2009 (EST)
Ah, okay. And would this be added through code of some kind, or by hand? 24.12.195.33 22:06, 6 March 2009 (EST)
I imagine that initially the value of the wikiFactor would be inserted by hand, as is the case at the moment with the wiki_pages parameter in the Size template. -- Carl McBride (talk) 05:30, 9 March 2009 (EDT)

Very cool!

Carl, I do worry about how this will scale to non-mediawiki wiki. Any ideas on that? Best, MarkDilley

I think most implementations of the wiki model have a facility for listing the most popular/visited pages. Instructions on exactly how to do this for each wiki type could be outlined on the category page, in a similar fashion to the list on the Template:Size page for the size of a wiki. -- Carl McBride (talk) 13:22, 9 March 2009 (EDT)

New template

Given the generally positive response to the Proposal:wikiFactor I have started work on an 'experimental' template along the same lines as the Size template: Template:Size experimental. -- Carl McBride (talk) 11:52, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

Please, have a look on Proposal:integrate new data into template:wiki! Greetings --Wolf | talk 04:04, 24 March 2009 (EDT)