A Delicious Perspective on Popular Django Projects

After hearing from Bryan over at Django Plugables that tagging on the list of projects would not be open to outside input, he was open to the idea of pulling data from Delicious as a starting point. I came across an entry on Niall Kennedy's blog pointing to a JSON URL feed being available and it seemed like that would do the trick. Please note that this API is probably not intended to be used for general data harvesting. I did throttle my requests way back to be respectful. Make sure you read and understand the terms and conditions surrounding this API before using it.

Following my own curiosities, I created a list of the 25 most popular projects from Django Plugables based on total posts in Delicious to URLs associated with those projects. Below you will also find a tag cloud that shows all Delicious tags associated with all of the Django Plugables projects. Hovering over a tag will list the associated projects with links to their respective project page at Django Plugables.

Let's take a quick moment to acknowledge that this sampling is not intended to be a well-thought out or authoritative statement on the actual use/popularity of projects that exist within the Django community. It is merely the outcome of an exercise - produced by combining data from two isolated resources. If one were to order the projects listed at Django Plugables (as of April 20, 2008), the 25 most popular bookmarked at Delicious are:

Top 25 Projects (With Total Delicious Posts for Associated URLs)

1. satchmo (371)
2. django-tagging (321)
3. django-registration (255)
4. typogrify (247)
5. django-evolution (222)
6. django-rest-interface (138)
7. django-photologue (131)
8. django-openid (127)
9. django-template-utils (117)
10. sorl-thumbnail (110)
11. django-mptt (88)
12. django-rosetta (88)
13. django-comment-utils (87)
14. django-sphinx (85)
15. sphene (85)
16. django-voting (79)
17. django-queue-service (75)
18. django-atompub (73)
19. django-pressroom (66)
20. django-contact-form (58)
21. diamanda (57)
22. tranquil (54)
23. django-logging (53)
24. django-threadedcomments (53)
25. django-forum (51)

Nothing surprising there. We can generalize the list to say that each of those projects meets some set of the following criteria:

• Has been in existence for a while
• Was authored by someone who has been with the community for a while
• Provides functionality or features common to most web applications
• Well written, portable Django code
• Follows in the footsteps of Django's roots as a publishing platform
• Just frickin' cool

Here is the set of tags associated with all projects listed at Django Plugables (as of April 20, 2008):

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