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@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@nichework.com wrote:
Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@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@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.
I see no discussion there.
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