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The '''wikiFactor''' ('''wF''') is a measure of the 'popularity' of a [[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 in the literature.  The [[wikiFactor]] complements 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 {{tag|wikiFactor}} is simply the number of pages in the wiki (''wF'') that have had more than 1000 times ''wF'' visits.

A [[wikiFactor]] (wF) of, say, 20 – means that page number 20 in the ranking list of pages visited has received 20,000 or more visits, whereas page 21 has not <u>yet</u> reached 21,000 visits.  Here is a worked example – for [[Special:PopularPages|WikiIndex]] from September 2012:

!ranking position (p)<br>most visited first

!page name (page views)

!relation<br>views [<=>] 1000*p

|1.

|[[Welcome]] (1,614,887 views)

|style=background-color:#efe|1,614,887 '''>''' 1,000

|2.

|[[TestWiki‏‎]] (268,598 views)

|style=background-color:#efe|268,598 '''>''' 2,000

|3.

|[[Dhamma Wiki‏‎]] (142,276 views)

|style=background-color:#efe|142,276 '''>''' 3,000

|4.

|[[Bulbapedia]] (95,036 views)

|style=background-color:#efe|95,036 '''>''' 4,000

|–

|—

|–

|—

|–

|—

|18.

|[[WikiIndex:WikiProject:Wikis to Add‏‎]] (21,428 views)

|style=background-color:#efe|21,428 '''>''' 18,000

|19.

|[[WikiLyric‏‎]] (21,181 views)

|style=background-color:#efe|21,181 '''>''' 19,000

|20.

|[[Aide:Contenus]]‏‎ (20,179 views)

|style=background-color:#efe|20,179 '''>''' 20,000

|21.

|[[English Girls WikiPorn‏‎]] (20,031 views)

|20,031 < 21,000

If one counts the entries with <code>views > 1000*p</code> (highlighted in light green) – one arrives at a wikiFactor (wF) of 20 for WikiIndex (correct as of September 2012).

Many [[:Category:Wiki Engine|wiki engines]] (though not all) provide global statistics.  Here is how to find the appropriate [[wikiFactor]] related stats for various wiki engines (although it can also depend on software version used by individual wiki sites).

#[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] — <s>go to the <tt>/Special:PopularPages</tt> page of the wiki – <code><nowiki>http://YourWikiURL.org/Special:PopularPages</nowiki></code></s><br>MediaWiki have, by default, now [[MW:Requests for comment/Removing hit counters from MediaWiki core|removed the page 'Special:PopularPages']] from its core installation.  They now use the RestAPI function instead.  To now produce the data as before, one must install the [[MW:Extension:HitCounters|Extension:HitCounters]]. Many large wikis are not able to have MediaWiki (or an extension) internally generate hit counters as they operate behind a cache or reverse proxy (such as Squid or Varnish) or an external content distribution network (such as Cloudflare) for performance reasons - which means most of the requests never reach the main servers. There are alternatives, but mostly these are site-specific.

#[[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] — <tt>/Special:PopularPages</tt> has been unavailable for some time.  The 'Top' sites option at [http://stats.grok.se/ stats.grok.se] can be used for [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedias]], but needs to be summed on a per-month basis.

#[[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]] — originally, this info could be accessed at <tt>Special:Mostvisitedpages</tt> – <code><nowiki>http://YourWikiName.wikia.com/Special:Mostvisitedpages</nowiki></code>, although from September 2011 this tool was removed, and no similar page counter existed for Wikia sites.  Sometime in mid-2012, Wikia reinstated <tt>/Special:Mostvisitedpages</tt>, so this feature became active again. By mid-March 2013 it had gone again, on [http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Mostvisitedpages the Community Central] and at least one big wiki.  There is now no Special:PopularPages; it was replaced by <code>Special:Top/most_visited</code>, which was deprecated in favour of <code>Special:Insights/popularpages</code>.

#[[:Category:MoinMoin|MoinMoin]] — add <tt>/PageHits</tt> at the end of the URL – <code><nowiki>http://YourWikiURL.org/wiki/PageHits</nowiki></code>

#[[:Category:PhpWiki|PhpWiki]] — add <tt>?MostPopular</tt> at the end of the URL – <code><nowiki>http://YourWikiURL.org/index.php?MostPopular</nowiki></code>

#[[:Category:TikiWiki|TikiWiki]] — either click on 'Page Rankings' in the sidebar, or add <tt>/tiki-wiki_rankings.php</tt> to the end of the root URL – <code><nowiki>http://YourWikiURL.org/tiki-wiki_rankings.php</nowiki></code>

#[[:Category:Wikispaces|Wikispaces]] — go to ''Manage Wiki'' on the top-left of the page (under 'Actions'), then click on the ''Tools: Wiki Statistics'' icon – <code><nowiki>http://YourWikiURL.Wikispaces.com/space/stats/overview</nowiki></code>.  Shift from the ''overview'' tab to the ''pages'' tab, then click on ''Views''.

#[[:Category:ShoutWiki|ShoutWiki]] — <tt>/Special:PopularPages</tt> and <tt>/Special:Mostvisitedpages</tt> both don't exist

#[[:Category:WikiFree|WikiFree]] — <code>Special:PopularPages</code> is enabled on-request