  Popularity and engagement are the currencies of social media platforms,
serving as powerful reinforcement mechanisms to keep users online. Social
coding platforms such as GitHub serve a dual purpose: they are practical tools
that facilitate asynchronous, distributed collaborations between software
developers while also supporting passive social media style interactions. There
are several mechanisms for "liking" content on GitHub: 1) forking repositories
to copy their content 2) watching repositories to be notified of updates and 3)
starring to express approval. This paper presents a study of popularity in
GitHub and examines the relationship between these three quantitative measures
of popularity. We introduce a weight-based popularity score (WTPS) that is
extracted from the history line of other popularity indicators.
