I'm replying to my own arguments. :-) On Monday 18 January 2010 14:18:19, Petko Yotov wrote : > There are a number of benefits for not having the user/rating lists in > extra pages. > * Maintainers wouldn't have to add *-Ratings pages to their watchlists. :-) > * It is easer to look at the lists of names, instead of going to another > page. As people outlined before, more important than the numeric sum of > the ratings is who are the people supporting / endorsing the program.
The *-Rating listings could be included in the main page, so they will be visible. > * It is easier for a visitor to edit the same page, than to go to another > one. I believe the effort/confusion for a visitor going to a different > page for longer comments, and to another one for a rating, and finding > their way back to the recipe, is _more_ than the effort from a PmWiki > expert to monitor his pages (that is even one page less to monitor per > recipe). There could be a direct link to *-Rating?action=edit as Peter suggested, this should work. Upon saving the page, there could be a header with links back to the recipe and to the comments. Moreover, it will be easier for users to edit a page with just user listings, than a page with the full documentation finding a section with the ratings. Last, the users who install our recipes are actually wiki administrators, so this should not be ectremely hard and copnfusing for them. > * If we keep user lists in the same page, the cookbook category listings > will need to open half the number of disk files, and this is 2x easier and > faster for the server/filesystem. Even now, without the additional file > reads, the server is sometimes slow, I'm not sure I want to add more load > to it. As Hans suggested, we could stop reading the *-Talk pages counting the number of profile links. Or, as Dave suggested, we could store the ratings in the *- Talk pages. > What I wrote above is what I was considering yesterday before enabling the > ratings the way they are now. But as Hans, Dave and Peter are three of the > most active recipe maintainers, and all voiced for using a separate page > for the ratings, I'm very much considering a change. And I agree it should > be the same for all pages, so should we change it, we should do it > quickly. I have disabled the message to add ratings in the GroupFooter, until we decide what is best. Petko _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
