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[Phpwiki-talk] Try wikilens theme ?

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

Folks,

The 'wikilens' theme in Phpwiki's CVS now works. I'd like to describe 
what's in there so you can try it out if you wish. We'd love feedback, 
so if you have any interest at all, give it a spin!

Also, you can see these features in action at wikilens.org.

Dan

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NOTE: Right now, we've tested with dbtype=SQL (which is PearDB, I 
think). Reini put in support for other backends, but I don't know its state.

These features work if you use the 'wikilens' theme:

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1. *Rate pages.* You can rate pages from 0.5-5.0 'smilies' in 
half-smiley increments with a ratings widget at the top of the page. You 
can view your ratings by visiting the "UserRatings" page. You can also 
rate the page anywhere you see the widget (e.g., in UserRatings, or in 
the category page, see below).

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2. *Categories.* You can make a page a 'category' by dropping the 
category plug-in on it:

<?plugin CategoryPage ?>

a. That just puts some boilerplate text on this page, including user 
ratings of items within the category. The idea is that you don't have to 
visit "UserRatings" directly; instead, you just go to the category page 
you are interested in.

b. The "CreatePage" on the category page will create the page with a 
link to the category, hence putting it "in" the category automatically. 
The intent is that you don't have to explain to your users how to put 
things in categories.

c. You can rate pages from the category page.

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3. *Buddies.*
a. You can declare your 'buddies' Joe and Mary by putting the following 
on your user home page:

Buddies: Joe, Mary

b. Once you declare buddies, you can see your buddies ratings in the FOO 
category page by clicking "Show Buddy Ratings in the FOO category".

c. You can declare per-category buddies. If you have a "Book" category, 
put the following line on your user home page:

BookBuddies: Mary, Reini

It will fall back to "Buddies" if there's no per-category buddies.

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4. *Predictions.* Once you have buddies, you will start seeing 
predictions on the category page, based on how your buddies rated 
things. You can also sort by predictions, your rating, or a buddy's 
rating by clicking on the column of the page list to sort.

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Well, that's a brief overview of the main features I remember. However, 
we have lots of plans for the future, so stay tuned!

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Try wikilens theme ?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan Frankowski schrieb:
> The 'wikilens' theme in Phpwiki's CVS now works. I'd like to describe 
> what's in there so you can try it out if you wish. We'd love feedback, 
> so if you have any interest at all, give it a spin!

Great!

> Also, you can see these features in action at wikilens.org.
> 
> Dan
> 
> ============================
> 
> NOTE: Right now, we've tested with dbtype=SQL (which is PearDB, I 
> think). Reini put in support for other backends, but I don't know its 
> state.
> 
> These features work if you use the 'wikilens' theme:
> 
> ============================
> 
> 1. *Rate pages.* You can rate pages from 0.5-5.0 'smilies' in 
> half-smiley increments with a ratings widget at the top of the page. You 
> can view your ratings by visiting the "UserRatings" page. You can also 
> rate the page anywhere you see the widget (e.g., in UserRatings, or in 
> the category page, see below).
> 
> ============================
> 
> 2. *Categories.* You can make a page a 'category' by dropping the 
> category plug-in on it:
> 
> <?plugin CategoryPage ?>
> 
> a. That just puts some boilerplate text on this page, including user 
> ratings of items within the category. The idea is that you don't have to 
> visit "UserRatings" directly; instead, you just go to the category page 
> you are interested in.
> 
> b. The "CreatePage" on the category page will create the page with a 
> link to the category, hence putting it "in" the category automatically. 
> The intent is that you don't have to explain to your users how to put 
> things in categories.
> 
> c. You can rate pages from the category page.
> 
> ============================
> 
> 3. *Buddies.*
> a. You can declare your 'buddies' Joe and Mary by putting the following 
> on your user home page:
> 
> Buddies: Joe, Mary
> 
> b. Once you declare buddies, you can see your buddies ratings in the FOO 
> category page by clicking "Show Buddy Ratings in the FOO category".
> 
> c. You can declare per-category buddies. If you have a "Book" category, 
> put the following line on your user home page:
> 
> BookBuddies: Mary, Reini
> 
> It will fall back to "Buddies" if there's no per-category buddies.
> 
> ============================
> 
> 4. *Predictions.* Once you have buddies, you will start seeing 
> predictions on the category page, based on how your buddies rated 
> things. You can also sort by predictions, your rating, or a buddy's 
> rating by clicking on the column of the page list to sort.

No predictions without buddies?

> ============================
> 
> Well, that's a brief overview of the main features I remember. However, 
> we have lots of plans for the future, so stay tuned!

Me too :)

* Clean up the RatingsDb classes to seperate into db and metadata
backends. Now it's a dirty mix between dan's old mysql code, my 
refactoring, and dan's new fixes.

* Let users configure the icon set. (To be tested)
I added two more smaller icon sets.

 From the README:
RATEIT_IMGPREFIX "RateIt"
The default "RateIt" images use the yellow wikilens smiley.
   Yellow is rated, blue is recommended, color-less the unselected icons.
   Size: 16x15

RATEIT_IMGPREFIX "RateItStar"
The traditional red star images must define the "RateItTrad" prefix in 
the RateIt plugin.
   Red is rated, blue is recommended, color-less the unselected icons.
   Size: 12x12

RATEIT_IMGPREFIX "RateItBStar"
The bigger red star images must define the "RateItStarB" prefix in the 
RateIt plugin.
   Red is rated, blue is recommended, color-less the unselected icons.
   Size: 18x16
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Try wikilens theme ?

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

> Dan Frankowski schrieb:
>
>> The 'wikilens' theme in Phpwiki's CVS now works. I'd like to describe 
>> what's in there so you can try it out if you wish. We'd love 
>> feedback, so if you have any interest at all, give it a spin!
>

I just wanted to clarify: of course I am grateful that Reini has taken 
an interest and helped so much! However, I was also intending the 
announcement to be for ALL readers of phpwiki-talk to take a look if you 
like.

>>
>> 4. *Predictions.* Once you have buddies, you will start seeing 
>> predictions on the category page, based on how your buddies rated 
>> things. You can also sort by predictions, your rating, or a buddy's 
>> rating by clicking on the column of the page list to sort.
>
>
> No predictions without buddies?


Correct. This must be fixed. We are pondering the right ways to fix it. 
(Bug# 391 in our internal Bugzilla). In particular, what is the right 
way (including an understandable user interface) to combine manually 
chosen buddies with automagically chosen ones? To be honest, it is not 
highest on the list right now, but it's clearly a hole.

>>
>> Well, that's a brief overview of the main features I remember. 
>> However, we have lots of plans for the future, so stay tuned!
>
>
> Me too :)


:)

>
> * Clean up the RatingsDb classes to seperate into db and metadata
> backends. Now it's a dirty mix between dan's old mysql code, my 
> refactoring, and dan's new fixes.


Factoring out the different backends into different classes is a good idea.

> * Let users configure the icon set. (To be tested)


Also a good thing.

Just to let you know, I'm happy to see you do anything you want. 
However, if we can't tune it so that we can run wikilens.org, then we'll 
probably modify it in some way.