GitHub
Hosting service for software projects using Git
Concept
GitHub ( ) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control, and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. GitHub, headquartered in San Francisco, is operated by Github, Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. It is commonly used to host open source software development projects. As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 420 million repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories. It is the world's largest source code host as of June 2023. Over five billion developer contributions were made to more than 500 million open source projects in 2024.
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GitHub
Hosting service for software projects using Git
GitHub ( ) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control, and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. GitHub, headquartered in San Francisco, is operated by Github, Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. It is commonly used to host open source software development projects. As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 420 million repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories. It is the world's largest source code host as of June 2023. Over five billion developer contributions were made to more than 500 million open source projects in 2024.
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Concept — Alters a rule of the game for as long as it stays in play.
Reach
Article length
102 / 120
Rigour
Reference density and count
57 / 120
Anchorage
Age and revision count
343 / 400
Currency
Recent edit activity and view trend
21 / 30
Diffusion
Language editions and incoming links
81 / 100
Article size
99 kB
Sources cited
176
Sections
27
Revisions
2,930
Revisions in 90 days
47
Incoming links
5,056
Language editions
75
Views over 12 months
1,298,203
Created on
July 22, 2008
Wikidata statements
167
Legendary — 99.3th percentile of notability
Rarity ranks cards by how famous their subject is: readership, number of languages and incoming links. This tier appears in 1.90% of cards pulled from packs. It says nothing about the card’s power, which is 733 out of 1000 here.
Effect
This card does not fight on its own: it carries a single effect, chosen by its dominant measure.
Knowledge — type matchups
Strong against
Weak against
The source article
This card maps to the Wikidata item Q364, present in 75 Wikipedia editions.
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