History of StarsPackage
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Stars is a simple rating package that allows you to rate content. What can it do?The package is still very young and undergoing some major development. Currently it allows you to rate content that fully support LibertyServices. most packages in the development branch support services fully. Rating is done using an AJAX based system. perhaps i'll make that optional at some point, but currently it's a requirement for the browser advanced Javascript.despite the complex css involved in getting the stars working (based on CSS Stars Rating) the rating results are displayed in text browsers. if i make stars available without ajax, i will make sure that content can be rated using such text browsers. Stars is the first service that allows content based use. By this i mean that you can specify what content types can be rated and which ones can't. Possible settingsSeveral settings are already available in the Stars package which include:
When you change any of these settings, you have the option to recalculate all the ratings on your site to make the changes fair. all values are normalised to 100 regardless of your settings. this means that all of the above calculations can be done on the fly using the history and returning an accurate value. ToDoAfter some time and testing of the weighting (karma) calculations, we can add a feature by which badly rated content can be hidden or even removed from the site. This is done quite easily using our setup, but we first need to get the package tested for a while to evaluate the weighting algorithm.the current calculation is as follows:
$activity will probably be changed to take the history into account as well. | {r2} Stars is a simple rating package that allows you to rate content. What can it do?StarsPackage allows you registered users to rate the content on your homepage. Rating can be controlled on a per content type basis. This means that you can allow users to rate only specific content types. e.g.: wiki pages and articles but nothing else or only images in fisheye and comments or ...Possible settingsSeveral settings are available in the Stars package which include:
When you change any of these settings, you have the option to recalculate all the ratings on your site to make the changes fair. All values are normalised to 100 regardless of your settings. This means that all of the above calculations can be done on the fly using the history and returning an accurate value. This also means that someone might want to develop a package that ties in with StarsPackage and uses the ratings to trigger something. Changing Stars IconIt is easy to use your own icon for stars. Here i will describe the steps needed to use your own icon without replacing the original:
Future?After some time and testing of the weighting (karma) calculations, we can add a feature by which badly rated content can be hidden or even removed from the site. This is done quite easily using our setup, but we first need to get the package tested for a while to evaluate the weighting algorithm.Current karma user weighting calculations
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