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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'].

A [[wikiFactor]] (wF) of, say, 24 – means that page number 24 in the ranking list of pages visited has received 24,000 or more visits, whereas page 25 has not <u>yet</u> reached 25,000 visits.  Here is a worked example – for [[WikiIndex]] from [[Archive.org:20150618102313/https://WikiIndex.org/Special:PopularPages|June 2015]]:

{|style="background-color:#eee; text-align:center; border:1"

!ranking position (p)<br>most visited first!!page name (page views)!!relation<br>views [<=>] 1000*p

|style=background-color:#efe|3,438,195 is ''more than'' 1,000

|style=background-color:#efe|270,350 is ''more than'' 2,000

|style=background-color:#efe|143,211 is ''more than'' 3,000

|style=background-color:#efe|100,660 is ''more than'' 4,000

|style=background-color:#efe|26,290 is ''more than'' 22,000

|style=background-color:#efe|26,090 is ''more than'' 23,000

|style=background-color:#efe|25,478 is ''more than'' 24,000

|25.||[[RationalWiki (en)‏‎]] (24,892 views)||24,892 is ''less than'' 25,000

If one counts the entries with <code>views ''more than'' 1000*p</code> (highlighted in light green) – one arrives at a wikiFactor (wF) of 24 for WikiIndex (correct as of June 2015).

#[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] — <s>go to the <tt>/Special:PopularPages</tt> page of the wiki – <code><nowiki>https://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 Wikipedia article traffic statistics 'Top' sites option at [http://Stats.Grok.se/ Stats.Grok.se] can be used for the larger [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedias]], [[Wikimedia Commons]], and [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]], but needs to be manually summed for the individual wiki on a per-month basis.

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

If your [[wiki]] site uses [[wp:Google Analytics|Google Analytics]], you can go to 'Content/Top Content' and select the entire date range to get a count of page views for each page.  If you started using Analytics partway through, and stopped collecting your wiki engine's standard statistics at the same time, you may be able to merge the two numbers.