Wiki Word Statistics

A search for each of these words against the search database available on 7 March 2000 gave these results

"pattern":
1376 hits/ 378 page titles (5.0%)

"Wiki":
1408 hits/ 279 page titles (3.7%)

"XP":
856 hits/200 page titles (2.7%)

"Extreme Programming:
10 hits/ 83 page titles (1.1%)

The database contained 7546 pages.

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 Wiki Mind will have drifted elsewhere. --Keith Braithwaite

May 12th, 2001

"pattern":
2130 hits/ 479 page titles (3.13%)

"Wiki":
?? hits/727 page titles (4.76%)

"XP":
?? hits/406 page titles (2.66%)

"Extreme Programming":
?? hits/145 page titles (0.94% of total)

The database contained 15,289 pages. Searching for word hits didn't work too well, as the size of the resulting pages caused network dropouts.

The database grew by 102%. Extreme Programming grew by 75%. XP grew by 104%, Wiki grew by 161%, and patterns by 27%.

It is a part of usual Language Oriented Programming 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:

Is * Xp * In * Pattern * Software ?

Software * For * Java * Language

Design * Object * Test

Do * Group * Project

Why * Your * Model ?

First * Good * Process

Refactor * All * Com * Data

Just * More * Net * Server

Meta * Source * Challenge

Challenge * Programmer * Books

Open * Pages * Change * Engineering

Can * Music * Need * Public ?

Thousand * Uml * Based * Exception

Quality * Science * Talk * Who ?

Rule * Rules

Abstract * Before * Common * Interfaces

We * Writing * Browser * Classes

Document * Factory * Implementation

Plan * Programmers * Reuse

Components * Considered * Dead

Its * Joe !

Know * Leadership

Null * Person * Reading * Requirements

Clear * Culture

Human * Ideal * Inheritance

Where * Zen * Applications

Evolving * Experiment * External * Failure

Fast * Forth * Groups

Linux * Load * Never

to name just a few. Just try it! Perhaps some expert can read and interpret this. I'm unable to. -- Helmut Leitner

If you play a little loose, the very first few words sum up Wiki pretty well:

The * Wiki * Of * Programming * And * Patterns