[Developers] RFE: popularity score

Shug Boabby shug.boabby at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 10:37:27 UTC 2008


This RFE got lost in one of my posts from a few days ago. Copied here.

When returning ranked results, it would be incredibly useful if there
was some score that measured the popularity of an entity. For
wikipedia articles I would imagine the "number of edits" would be a
good indicator... usage stats would be awesome ;-) I find the
Wikipedia ID to be a crude measure of popularity, as obviously the
more popular stuff was added early (although, due to the cultural bias
of the Wikipedia editors in the early days, this does have some really
weird side effects).


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