Bump. The below is a proposal to alter the group header for the Cookbook group on pmwiki.org. The idea is to put an option at the top of every recipe page to allow people to vote for recipes to provide a "top 10" or "top 50" or whatever so that administrators can see what has been useful to others.
As PM mentioned, this has been suggested before but no consensus has been reached on what it might look like. Hans suggested StarRater and I think it looks really good. I put together a demo for you to see what it might look like at this site: http://www.qdk.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cookbook.RecipeA # here you will find a sample recipe to see what the rating system looks like http://www.qdk.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cookbook.Cookbook # here you will find the list of pages in order by rating In place of RecipeA you can also use RecipeB or RecipeC or create your own. That group is wide open for now. I think the idea has merit, but it needs some feedback and input to get the best possible value out of it. Thoughts? Some questions to get us thinking: * Should the rating be based on usage as I've done in the demo or should it be a straight recommendation (poor, fair, good, excellent, great)? * Should it be in the group header or on some other page for the actual voting process with only a display of the rating on the recipe page itself? * On the demo multiple votes are allowed. On the real thing should an additional vote be disallowed or replace the original vote from that IP address? -Peter earlier email follows On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saturday, August 30, 2008, 3:38:52 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >> There have also been many discussions on the list about providing >> some sort of rating or voting system for recipes, but we've never >> come to a consensus about what such a thing might look like, so it >> really hasn't gone anywhere. > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/StarRater > is both good looking using the widespread five star system, > and can allow one vote per user domain. > > It could be added for all Cookbook pages via GroupHeader. > > A top 50 or so recipe list can be gathered via pagelist. I've put together a demo of this at http://www.qdk.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cookbook.RecipeA. (I've also got some test data in RecipeB and a RecipeC as well - feel free to create new ones.) I've configured it such that for testing purposes you can vote more than once - presumably in a final version that would be limited as it is by default with StarRater. I've set up the labels as being a way to vote re usage but maybe it would be better to use it as a "recommended" or not? The recipe is very flexible, so there's all kinds of ways we can display differently and etc. Anyway, please take a look and give your thoughts - I would love to see something like this implemented on the main site so we can get an idea of what recipes are either most recommended or most used by other administrators. -Peter _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
