On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:12 AM, carl carl@ender.quim.ucm.es wrote:

Dear MediaWiki developers, I am wondering if it is possible to add the value of the wikiFactor for a MediaWiki site to the Special:Statistics page?

Unfortunately I have no php programming experience, so I am unable to suggest a modification myself, although I suspect that a simple do-wile loop with the correct parameters would suffice.

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The wikiFactor is a measure of the interest that a wiki site has received.

For details see the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3439

Its calculation is rather simple; one visits (for MediaWiki) the Special:PopularPages page. The wikiFactor (wF) is the page that has had more than 1000 x wF views.

For example: here is an extract from a Special:Statistics page, the wikiFactor is 7:

6 Models (10,455 views) 7 Hard sphere model (10,447 views) 8 Computer simulation techniques (7,728 views) 9 Classical thermodynamics (7,621 views)

i.e. page 7 has had more than 7,000 views, whilst page 8 has yet to reach 8,000 views.

Presently the wikiFactor is being rolled-out on the wikiIndex site, a compendium of over 4,000 wiki sites.

see:

http://www.wikiindex.org/Category:WikiFactor

All the best, carl

I wouldn't trust MediaWiki's built-in view counter for anything more than

the most rudimentary intra-wiki analysis; I certainly wouldn't trust it for comparing two different wikis. The counter is disabled on most large wikis anyway. It should be easy to create an extension for this (or maybe wikiindex is already using one; it seems to be down, so I can't check); if you want this in the core, you'll have to ask on Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

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