I have copied the text of your blog entry here for the convenience of those who would rather read it on-list:
Cormac Lawler invented a simple but interesting wikimetric method to measure the importance of different guidelines in a Wiki community: Just count the number of links to it! That's citation analysis isn't it? :-) Well, you don't really measure the importance but the number of times Wikipedians refer to a specific rule. Here is how to do it:
1. Select a site and "What links here", for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_o... 2. Select "500″ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=W... 3. Modify the the URL "offset=0″ to different higher values until the "next 500″ link disapears but the list of pages not (you have to play around a bit) - you can also browse with prev/next 500 link http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=W... 4. Switch to smaller number than 500 and browse to the end http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=W... 5. Have a look at the URL and add the offset plus the number of pages in the list: 6. 10660 + 2 = 10662 pages linking to Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
That's it. You can also change the limit=500 value to jump higher steps.
I just counted 5600 links to Wikipedia:Wikiquette. So beeing friendly is half as important as beeing right, isn't it? ;-)
Assume_good_faith is linked 1188 times and Be bold in updating pages 9174 (all numbers determinded only some minutes ago - remember Wikipedia grows fast)
Let me know your results with other guidelines! You can also compare relativ numbers between different languages.
On 23/08/05, Jakob Voss jakob.voss@nichtich.de wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
Is there a Kate's tools-like way of counting the number of pages that link to any given page through the "What links here" function? This would be useful to see which policy pages are most often cited, for example.
Oh, and I mean a *simple* tool for a technologically simple guy like me.
That's a very interesting idea! I just posted an answer to my blog: http://wm.sieheauch.de/?p=19
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