[Phpwiki-talk] Page scoring.

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

What's the concensus on the current page scoring scheme?

<ramble>

I haven't hacked it into my new database API yet, and I'm not sure
I want to.  Personally, I don't think it's particularly useful as it
is now.

Currently the "page score" is basically a count of how many pages link
to pages which link to the page.  (Not quite -- pages can be counted 
twice. i.e. in the following case, the score of C will be 2, not 1
--- A gets counted twice...)

   A--->B---->C
   |          ^ 
   +--->D-----+


Anyhow, the general idea is: the more links there are to a page, the 
higher
it's score....

Currently neighboring pages which high scores are listed at the bottom 
of
each page in the wiki.   I never use this feature --- never even look 
at it.

My take on the matter is:  if everyone links to a page (therefore giving
it a high score) I don't really need help finding it...  These are pages
that one is likely to stumble upon just by following random links in 
pages.

Actually, if the score were done in reverse,

  revscore of page A = how many different pages can I get to from A in 
n clicks

I think it might be more useful.  A high revscore indicates that a page
is likely to be a good "index page" or starting point for exploration,
since it links to lots of things...   These then are pages which you
are likely to stumble upon if you randomly follow backlinks...

</ramble>

Anyhow, as I said, I never use the "5 best incoming/outgoing links".
Does anyone?


Jeff

PS:  Anybody have any preferences on the tab-width=4 vs tab-width=8
issue?  If no one says anything I'm going to start using tab-width=8,
'cause thats my preference....