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Bug 26651 - Access to ratings difficult, leading to "dummy-ratings"
Access to ratings difficult, leading to "dummy-ratings"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
ReaderFeedback (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guitar
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2011-01-10 08:03 UTC by Gregor Hagedorn
Modified: 2011-08-29 14:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Gregor Hagedorn 2011-01-10 08:03:04 UTC 
The only possible access to previous ratings seems to be after rating a page. In this case, the rating is shown on top and 

"Thank you for reviewing this page! (see results) (comments or questions?)."

with see results linking to http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RatingHistory&target=Guitar and comments linking to http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Guitar&action=edit&section=new

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a) A link in the rating box at the bottom of the page itself would be desirable. Presently there is not access to inform oneself about other readers opinions without actually forming an opinion oneself. While it is desirable to have as many well-founded ratings as possible, it is not desirable to have dummy-ratings because users have to enter an ill-founded rating to be able to see other peoples ratings

"What do you think of this page? - Please take a moment to rate this page below. Your feedback is valuable and helps us improve our website."

Might be changed to:

"What do you think of this page? - Please take a moment to rate it. Your feedback is valuable and helps us improve our website. (Previous ratings)"

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b) It would be desirable to support short URLs like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:RatingHistory/Guitar to simplify linking
Comment 1 Aaron Schulz 2011-02-24 23:19:00 UTC 
There is a toolbox link in the left corner (for LTR languages) that links to the page rating data.

(a) would be undesirable information cascade.
Comment 2 Gregor Hagedorn 2011-02-25 08:04:48 UTC 
"There is a toolbox link in the left corner (for LTR languages) that links to
the page rating data."

-> this is inside the "toolbox", which is closed for readers and normally used only by editors. So this is not normally visible to reader whom the rating addresses.

I don't fully understand why a display of the link within the context of present readers attention is an "undesirable information cascade".
Comment 3 Aaron Schulz 2011-02-25 08:42:27 UTC 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Design

Having a link may or may not be OK, depending on how it is presented. But is should *not* be to there to inform or influence the reader about how others rate it.
Comment 4 Gregor Hagedorn 2011-08-29 14:18:18 UTC 
closing, no longer relevant, no longer using the extension
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