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What metrics influence popularity? I'm trying to determine if the main-profile becomes unfairly weighted, due to calls to main-profile's ProjectWikiContentPortlet from index.shtml.
In our mixed-use case, it's more than enough to have the main-profile in the index page; it would be more fair if it wasn't always at the top of Popular Businesses, even with less activity.
To get things going, software-wise, popularity is being generated by the viewing of data per user per day. Someone must click-through in order for the view to be triggered. It's not counted just because the profile is listed on index.shtml or any other page. It is triggered by a click of the profile name.
I'd like to see popularity factor in many statistics, similar to how user contribution is determined. For example, there are 15 weighted criteria for determining a user's contribution. You can adjust the weights, just take a look at [lookup_contribution] table until there is an Admin UI.
So what criteria would make it into popularity? Perhaps the amount of recent activity is highly weighted, the recent unique views by users, etc. This is one category I'd like to see refined!
If you have some thoughts please share them... I'm going to add this as an idea for discussion in the Ideas tab.
