On 1/18/2010 9:25 AM, Petko Yotov wrote: > 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. I like this idea. It makes the ratings obvious to the reader.
>> * 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. I prefer to retain user comments and ratings in a single place. That way readers can see and thus edit everything they need in one place. So perhaps a section of the Talk page, with ratings. That way we can include the section *-Talk#ratings in the main page. > 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. Hmm, whilst this is true, I think we need to be realistic in understanding there are different levels of 'administrator'. I also agree with Hans. I prefer to move user edits out of the main cookbook page. In general I tend to maintain a separate version of the cookbook page outside of PmWiki which contains notes for the in dev version. I prefer not to have to consider needing to merge a cookbook page edited by users with my in dev version. Of course this process is likely to be different across cookbook authors. ~ ~ Dave _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
