On 9/6/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm . . . have you considered digging up some voting theorists and e-mailing them for advice on how to set this up? I suspect that any system that hasn't had a great deal of systematic thought put into it will inevitably be deeply flawed on various levels. If you could get a professor interested in having e-mail chats who could hook you up with some equations that get at what we want, I think you'd probably avoid all the issues that people brought up above, plus most of the issues they didn't think of.
I hadn't considered that. :) Thanks for the offer. I agree, any simple schemes definitely won't be perfect, but it might be suitable for finding which pages are good, and which pages need to be improved. Another option is to use a forumla similar to IMDB's, which I assume has been arrived at due to some amount of research.
On 9/6/06, Travis Derouin travis@wikihow.com wrote:
How do extensions generally deal with images and stylesheets that need to be available outside the extensions directory, such as in the skins directory, when users are accessing them through SVN?
Hooks, surely? The skins must have hooks in lots of convenient places. What do you mean, available outside the extensions directory? You're only running code inside the extensions directory.
The extension uses images for buttons for rating the pages, and these buttons have to reside in a directory that is accessible through the browser, /extensions is not. So, in this case, do extensions generally just provide a tarball and have the user untar the images into the skins directory?
Thanks, Travis