A Study of GitHub Documentation Repositories: What Makes GitHub Documentation Repository Popular? 


Vol. 13,  No. 8, pp. 374-381, Aug.  2024
https://doi.org/10.3745/TKIPS.2024.13.8.374


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Documentation repositories on GitHub are used to share information that is helpful in performing various tasks. Popular documentation repositories have an advantage in attracting contributors who can help manage and extend documentation repository. Therefore, it is important to understand the characteristic of documentation repositories helpful to obtain popularity for developing strategies attracting attention of users. This paper presents a study on GitHub documentation repositories. To conduct the study, we collected 566 documentation repositories from GitHub and manually categorized their topic into 30 topics. Based on the stargazer score of the collected documentation repositories, we divided the collected documentation repositories into popular and unpopular documentation repository groups and investigated the topics in the popular documentation group. Then we statistically examined the differences in README characteristics of the popular and unpopular documentation repository groups. As a result, we found that the studied documentation repositories have 23 popular topics. We also found that the popular and unpopular documentation repository groups have differences in 5 README characteristics. The result of our study indicates that what documentation repository become popular in GitHub.

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[IEEE Style]

J. I. Kim, "A Study of GitHub Documentation Repositories: What Makes GitHub Documentation Repository Popular?," The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 374-381, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/TKIPS.2024.13.8.374.

[ACM Style]

Jung Il Kim. 2024. A Study of GitHub Documentation Repositories: What Makes GitHub Documentation Repository Popular?. The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society, 13, 8, (2024), 374-381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/TKIPS.2024.13.8.374.

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