Wiki Word Statistics
Wiki Word StatisticsA search for each of these words against the search database available on 7 March 2000 gave these results
It's interesting to compare those last two separately, rather than combine them.
Please append to, rather than modifying these figures, so that we can compare against them at some later date. My guess would be that in, say, a years time, the XP pages will be a lower proportion of the total, since the WikiMind will have drifted elsewhere. --KeithBraithwaite
May 12th, 2001
The database grew by 102%. ExtremeProgramming grew by 75%. XP grew by 104%, Wiki grew by 161%, and patterns by 27%.
It is a part of usual LanguageOrientedProgramming practice to look at the words that are used in a system. I had postponed this for a while (being new to the Wiki), but now I did.
The list at the end of this page is the first part of the output of processing wikiList.
If you do this on a software API you usually find something interesting. Special words, redundant words, wrong words ... but at first sight, I didn't find anything of significance.
Of course, if you look at the first few lines (strip some simple words) you find what this Wiki is about: Wiki Programming Patterns Extreme.
But when I read on, I felt like a shaman priest having thrown a bag of bones to read the present and the future:
If you play a little loose, the very first few words sum up Wiki pretty well:
See also WikiMines.
On a similar note, I am trying to divise a way to determine the "centres" of a wiki (or things similar to wikis). My best attempt so far has been http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ShortestPathPages. -- SunirShah
As one might expect, the number of occurrences of a given WikiWord per WikiPage obeys a PowerLaw. This hypothesis was tested in March 2003 with 724 pages containing the WikiWord "UnitTest". A LogLog plot of the count of the pages with a given number of occurrences of "UnitTest" was created. The values are linear for the first two orders of magnitude, though they diverge from the ideal value as the number of occurrences of "UnitTest" per page increases:
Linear regression yields r-squared = 0.936.
A second test with "ExtremeProgramming" and 1,189 BackLinked pages gave a similar result, with r-squared = 0.950:
Binning the data increases r-squared to 0.99+.
The original version of this list counted each entry twice. This has been corrected.
Files: 1 Found: 80843
Count Statistic:
582 The 541 Wiki 463 Of 293 And 272 Programming 247 Patterns 234 To 232 Extreme 225 Is 210 Xp 208 In 202 Pattern 189 Software 172 For 166 Java 163 Language 161 Design 146 Object 126 Test 111 Code 110 Page 108 On 93 Web 90 What 85 As 84 Category 83 With 82 John 80 Are 79 Not 78 Smalltalk 76 Unit 75 It 73 Discussion 73 You 72 Two 70 Refactoring 69 One 68 Use 67 Mc 66 Do 63 Group 62 Project 61 David 60 How 59 New 58 From 57 By 56 About 55 This 54 Component 54 Topic 54 Work 53 At 52 Testing 52 Vs 50 Be 50 Ejb 50 Objects 50 System 50 Systems 49 Development 49 Dont 49 Meeting 48 User 48 Visual 47 Name 47 Why 47 Your 46 Model 46 Tcpg 45 Management 45 Michael 45 Time 44 First 44 Good 44 Process 42 Class 42 People 41 Method 40 Refactor 39 All 39 Com 39 Data 39 Free 39 Just 39 More 39 Net 39 Server 39 That 39 Three 38 Architecture 38 Link 38 Mark 38 Problem 38 Value 37 Big 37 Book 37 Interface 36 Changes 36 No 36 Peter 35 An 35 Bill 35 Cpp 35 Jim 35 Meta 35 Source 34 Challenge 34 Programmer 33 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See also HowWeTalk, WikiStatistics
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