Rating a Wiki Page

Richard Carlin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:08:24 GMT

Current revision posted to Documentation by Richard Carlin on 4/22/2009 1:08:24 PM

Rating a Wiki Page

Filed under: Community, Ratings, Wiki

Welcome to Rating a Wiki Page

As a wiki user, you have the opportunity of rating the value of the page content. The wiki uses a thumbs-up and thumbs-down rating system which looks like this:

If you find a page that you particularly like or find valuable, you can give it a thumbs-up rating; or you can give it a thumbs-down if you do not find useful at all. Community Server tallies the percentage of positive and negative responses below the rating.

The rating will display as a red thumbs-down if 50% of respondents rate the page thumbs-down. The green thumbs-up displays as long as a user has rated it thumbs-up; however, you can see the general value of the page by the rating percentage. If the thumbs-up percentage is only 20 percent, for example, you will know that the majority of respondents have given the page a low rating.

These ratings are useful in alerting authors and users of the value of the information in the page. The author can see at a glance that the information in the page is helpful to users if rated highly, or incomplete, incorrect or generally without much value to most users if rated lowly. The author can then decide whether to modify the content or perhaps even remove the page entirely.

Other members of the community can also be alerted to the value of the page simply by seeing the graphic thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon and rated percentage.

Note: The ratings are tracked by user name so that a user's vote is recorded only once. You can change your vote at any time, but Community Server does not add an additional vote to its tally of total votes.

Procedure

1. Open the wiki page you want to rate. The current wiki page rating appears at the top of the post.

2. Scroll down to the bottom of the post (but above the comments) to the rating options.

3. Rate the post by clicking Yes or No. The new vote is immediately calculated and displays when you return to the wiki forums page.

Rating a Wiki Page

Richard Carlin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:50:13 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Documentation by Richard Carlin on 4/5/2009 11:50:13 AM

Welcome to Rating a Wiki Page

As a wiki user, you have the opportunity of rating the value of the page content. The wiki uses a thumbs-up and thumbs-down rating system which looks like this:

Other members of the community can also be alerted to the value of the page simply by seeing the graphic thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon and rated percentage.

Procedure

1. Open the wiki page you want to rate. The current wiki page rating appears at the top of the post.

2. Scroll down to the bottom of the post (but above the comments) to the rating options.

3. Rate the post by clicking Yes or No. The new vote is immediately calculated and displays when you return to the wiki forums page.