[WikiEN-l] Wikinews page rating system and social bookmarking

[Cary Bass]

Carcharoth wrote:
> Ooh! Wikinews have a page rating system for their readers to use. How
> long has that been in use for and how much traffic does it get and is
> it in use on any other Wikimedia projects? There is also a "Share
> this" feature to allow cross-linking and social bookmarking. Nice.
> Same questions for that feature!
>
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Social_bookmarks
>
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals/Archive/16#Adding_a_poll_and_an_article_rating.2Fcomment_combination_extension
>
> The above was the closest I could get to the news article rating
> feature. Is there a wikinews page somewhere about that?
>
> Carcharoth
>   
I've contributed to Wikinews and reviewed articles for flagging, but
I've never even submitted a "what do you think" form, or even heard it
discussed on the channel or their mailing list. I think it's safe to say
it's not very well used.

Cary