2012/11/7 Jean-François Colson <[email protected]>: > You missed > NEGLECTABLE RATING + > > NO RATING
For this one, would it be a greyed star (meaning no info, N/A) or the existing WHITE STAR for the minimum rating (the maximum rating being the BLACK STAR) ? Usually, we see the high ratings displayed as multiple stars, that are either present or absent, but rarely half filled. Another common notation use filled pie slices in empty circles/filled disks, or half-circles/disks, or on clocks (most often to note completion levels). Some Wikimedia projects use a 2×2 square grid pattern (with additional colors : 0=grey, 25%=gray grid+1 black square, 50%=2 red squares, 75%=3 blue squares, 100%=4 green squares). Some will use various forms to fill gauges or are displaying a slider button or horizontal bars stacked on top of each other (usually also for completion levels or to display the activity), or device rotating on the half-circle gauge (like speed-meters in cars, usually to display performance levels), or a Hg-thermometer shown vertically (not always graduated)... There's a lot of creativity for these gauges, and various scales used. How many symbols would you need then ? For me all these scaling gauges are not character simply because it's impossible to determine what value they represent individually. They are graphic tools that are eye-catching and beautif. If we continue like this, some will want to represent bar diagrams (also with their graduation scales and axisà using plain-text characters only... Why not just writing the numeric figures and leave the gauge being displayed in graphic renderers ?
