Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-19 Thread Sandy
Dr Fred C drfredc at verizon.net writes: Patrick R. Michaud wrote: There's been a lot of discussion in the past about coming up with a rating system for cookbook recipes. Ben Wilson has a recipe at [2], but I wanted to try something even simpler. Take a look at

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-19 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:14:41PM +, Sandy wrote: Number of downloads can be deceiving. E.g., on tucows, the first on the list has millions of downloads, promises miracles, only 9kb to download. Sure, lots of us will download it, learn it crashes our system, and most likely move on

[pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
There's been a lot of discussion in the past about coming up with a rating system for cookbook recipes. Ben Wilson has a recipe at [2], but I wanted to try something even simpler. Take a look at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SimpleRating and tell me what you think. Pm

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread Martin Fick
I don't think that it is working right. The ratings are in order: 5-13230-15 minus the dups:5-13235 ordered by rank: 55332-1 But the recipe reports:55332 0XX strange, -Martin --- Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's been a lot of discussion in the

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread Hans
Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 8:41:04 PM, Martin wrote: The ratings are in order: 5-13230-15 minus the dups:5-13235 ordered by rank: 55332-1 But the recipe reports:55332 0XX it counts the duplicates. duplicates are not excluded. ~Hans

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:41:04PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: I don't think that it is working right. The ratings are in order: 5-13230-15 minus the dups:5-13235 ordered by rank: 55332-1 But the recipe reports:55332 0XX The recipe doesn't look for duplicate

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread The Editor
On 4/18/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:41:04PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: I don't think that it is working right. The ratings are in order: 5-13230-15 minus the dups:5-13235 ordered by rank: 55332-1 But the recipe

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:23:08PM -0400, The Editor wrote: On 4/18/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:41:04PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: I don't think that it is working right. The ratings are in order: 5-13230-15 minus the dups:

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread Dr Fred C
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: There's been a lot of discussion in the past about coming up with a rating system for cookbook recipes. Ben Wilson has a recipe at [2], but I wanted to try something even simpler. Take a look at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SimpleRating and tell me what you

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:47:53PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: There's been a lot of discussion in the past about coming up with a rating system for cookbook recipes. Ben Wilson has a recipe at [2], but I wanted to try something even simpler. Take a look at

Re: [pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

2007-04-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, The Editor wrote: Just for simplicity's sake, I'd be inclined to give ratings of simply +1 to +5 (kind of like the PITS system). 1 would be opposed, 5 would be for, 3 would be neutral. Grading scales are troublesome... You can't be sure that 5 is the best and 1 is the