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==How to calculate the wikiFactor of a site==
==How to calculate the wikiFactor of a site==
The '''wikiFactor''' ('''wF''') is a measure of the 'popularity' of an individual [[wiki]] site.  It is based on the Hirsch [[wp:H-index|h-index]], which is commonly used to measure the impact a scientist has had for their published works.  The [[wikiFactor]] compliments the number of pages and total number of visits information.  More details can be found in the preprint [http://arXiv.org/abs/0902.3439 'wikiFactor: a measure of the importance of a wiki site'].
The '''wikiFactor''' ('''wF''') is a measure of the 'popularity' of an individual [[wiki]] site.  It is based on the Hirsch [[wp:H-index|''h''-index]] author-level metric, which is commonly used to measure the impact a scientist and / or scholar has had for citations of their published works; an example is [[Magnus Manske]], the first [[:Category:MediaWiki developer|MediaWiki developer]], who has an ''h''-index of 20 (as of April 2019).  The [[wikiFactor]] compliments the number of pages and total number of visits information.  More details can be found in the preprint [http://arXiv.org/abs/0902.3439 'wikiFactor: a measure of the importance of a wiki site'].


Specifically, the {{tag|wikiFactor}} is simply the number of pages in the wiki site (''wF'') that have had more than 1000 times ''wF'' visits.
Specifically, the {{tag|wikiFactor}} is simply the number of pages in the wiki site (''wF'') that have had more than 1000 times ''wF'' visits.