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    Issue: Regression: Article quality & Importance ratings

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    1. issueid=3508 December 17, 2013 6:47 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Regression: Article quality & Importance ratings

      VW3 had article ratings. VW4 does not. This is a regression. However, this is also a request for a significant enhancement.

      There are two important functions in wikimedia that are missing or not working well in Vaultwiki:

      Article Quality Ratings
      Wikipedia / wikimedia has this developed well. Each article is rated by a Quality Scale. This rates the quality of an article in a point in time. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...#Quality_scale
      Vaultwiki intents to emulate this by using something similar to vbulletins thread rating system, but it completely fails due to the fact that articles change in time: Ratings on an article in stub status have no baring on the same article in completed status.

      I suggest to implement a 5 star rating scale (with half stars) and alt texts which explain the various ratings, ranking from 'empty page', 'short basic article', 'moderately filled article', 'substantial article', 'substantial & useful article', 'good article', 'great article' to 'expert article'.
      To avoid short articles getting high quality ratings, there should be a minimum number of characters required before a high rating can be attributed.

      Once an article has a certain rating and a certain number of characters are added / edits are made, there should be a 'needs quality ratings' sign to request readers with certain usergroups to rate the article. The new rating with replace the previous rating. The average out of the new ratings will be used.

      The same quality rating can also be used to attribute reputation, likes or trophy points to the authors. For example: attribute X points to all users who contributed more than Y% or more than Z characters to the article.


      Article Importance Ratings
      Writers will work on important articles first. Therefore its useful to have an Importance Rating like wikipedia has. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...portance_scale
      This can be a 4 or 5 scale rating ranging: unknown, low, mid, high, top.

      It should be easy for writers to find articles that are rated important have a low quality scale.


      IMHO these two functions are essential to Vaultwiki.
    Issue Details
    Issue Number 3508
    Issue Type Feature
    Project VaultWiki 4.x Series
    Category Polls / Ratings
    Status In Progress
    Priority 8 - Major Features / Enhancements
    Suggested Version 4.0.0 Gamma 7
    Implemented Version (none)
    Milestone VaultWiki 4.2
    Software DependencyAny
    License TypePaid
    Votes for this feature 1
    Votes against this feature 0
    Attachments 0
    Assigned Users pegasus
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    1. December 17, 2013 1:53 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      We actually have plans to merge the article ratings system (which is incomplete in VW4) into the polling system (also incomplete). Polls will be a separate content type that can be used similarly to wiki templates. There will be a pool of them created by admins and/or users that can be added to pages (even by default on new pages). We can probably include some poll types in the system by default, like Article Quality or Article Importance as you mention above. If we also give varnames to polls, then we can even let developers make custom searches or sidebar blocks that are tailored for them.

      The database stuff is all there already, we just need to make the UI.
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    2. April 6, 2014 8:39 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Related feature request: https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/3663/
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    3. April 8, 2014 2:01 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      Regarding my previous comment, this request would be dependent on this feature: https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/3674/

      The fact that so many feature requests depend on the system, that feature is a lot more important than we originally anticipated.
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    4. July 2, 2014 4:08 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      As VW4 no longer has article ratings, this suggestion is both a regression, and an enhancement. IIRC you have stated this ine of the tickets as well.
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    5. December 10, 2014 2:35 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      This is marked as 'In Progress'. Can we expect this in VW4.0 Gold?
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    6. February 10, 2015 11:07 AM
      hollosch hollosch is offline
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      I think this will be a good featiure!
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    7. March 8, 2015 9:19 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      What is the status of this feature request? It was marked 'in progress' last December.
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    8. March 8, 2015 4:38 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      I would like to suggest a ladder of articles states. For example:
      1. empty page
      2. short basic article
      3. moderately filled article
      4. substantial article
      5. substantial & useful article
      6. good article
      7. great article
      8. expert article

      The admin should be able to set such states and the order of the ladder.
      Members and guests should be able to easily vote for the correct state of the article if they have such permission. (set by admin)
      This allows us to use the power of guests, which is massive considering that up to 99% of readers are guests. This is only available if there is weighting for guest ratings in relation to member ratings, so that abuse only has a moderate effect. optimally there would be a weight per usergroup.
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    9. March 8, 2015 4:44 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      BTW. I would like to sponsor this feature if this means that we can expect it in the near future.
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    10. August 21, 2018 7:02 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      With Google's Quality standards it has become very important to measure quality and to identify low quality pages:
      https://static.googleusercontent.com...guidelines.pdf
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