I agree to the points raised about ratings and what parameters are best
suitable for representing them. However, I believe these are evolutionary
features and can only be improved in an agile manner. The key issue I
believe is to address the cold start problem and for this I suppose that
reflecting the ratings back to mw.o will catalyses the process of data
collection in due time and make the ratings more meaningful.
Currently, a flat number 3 was reflected as rating but I hope everyone
takes it in symbolic terms i.e it can be modified to suit best needs. To
re-iterate, it means that instead of 3 we can use 3/5 which tells the total
rating is out of 5. Also we may use the information about how many people
rated the extension and display that too. So this is where I need help to
decide what will comprise as a meaningful data which can be presented on
the extension page and address the cold start of this functionality. Please
see all the knowledge generated on the extension pages of WikiApiary and
suggest what combination of parameters will be best suited to be pushed to
mediawiki. Thanks.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mark A. Hershberger
<mah(a)nichework.com>
wrote:
Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
writes:
On 8/18/14, 8:47 AM, Chad wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org
>> Has it already been asked anywhere
*whether* to make these ratings
>> available on mediawiki.org?
Yes. This is a GSoC project that was accepted. Getting the ratings to
mw.o is the final step of that.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/Gsoc2014
I see no discussion there.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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