Analysis of Linked GitHub and Wikidata
Ekaterina Levitskaya, Gizem Korkmaz, Daniel Mietchen, Lane Rasberry · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
This is a preprint and working draft. We aim to study the features of GitHub developers that have corresponding Wikidata entries. In this report, we focus on GitHub developers that are associated with academic institutions. First, we explore the countries of these developers to understand major countries that contribute to open source software (OSS). Second, we explore whether there are gender differences with respect to OSS contributions. We analyze number of repositories owned and contributes to, number of commits and code additions. Finally we generate a collaboration network, and study the degree centrality of the users.