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
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Dr. Carl McBride
Grupo de Termodinamica Estadistica de Fluidos Moleculares
Departamento de Quimica Fisica I
Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
28040 Madrid
Spain
www.ucm.es/info/molecsim/carlmcbride.html
www.SklogWiki.org
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