Popularity and engagement are the currencies of social media platforms, serving as powerful reinforcement mechanisms to keep users online. Social coding platforms such as GitHub serve a dual purpose: they are practical tools that facilitate asynchronous, distributed collaborations between software developers while also supporting passive social media style interactions. There are several mechanisms for "liking" content on GitHub: 1) forking repositories to copy their content 2) watching repositories to be notified of updates and 3) starring to express approval. This paper presents a study of popularity in GitHub and examines the relationship between these three quantitative measures of popularity. We introduce a weight-based popularity score (WTPS) that is extracted from the history line of other popularity indicators.

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在 GitHub 中评分受欢迎程度

人气和参与度是社交媒体平台的货币，是保持用户在线的强大强化机制。GitHub 等社交编码平台有双重用途：它们是实用工具，可促进软件开发人员之间的异步分布式协作，同时还支持被动社交媒体风格的交互。GitHub 上有多种“喜欢”内容的机制：1) 分叉存储库以复制其内容 2) 观看存储库以获取更新通知 3) 加注以表示批准。本文对 GitHub 中的流行度进行了研究，并检验了这三种流行度量化指标之间的关系。我们引入了从其他流行度指标的历史线中提取的基于权重的流行度分数 (WTPS)。