[pmwiki-users] Cookbook Ratings : Vote for the recipes you use

[Petko Yotov]

On Monday 18 January 2010 04:44:19, Petko Yotov wrote :
> On Monday 18 January 2010 03:37:52, Petko Yotov wrote :
> > I have enabled ratings in the Cookbook and you can rate the recipes which
> >  you use or have reviewed, and thus contribute to the statistics.
> >
> > We have several hundred recipes in the Cookbook. Newcomers are
> > overwhelmed by the information overload. The stats/votes/ratings by other
> > users may help newcomers make better decisions, faster.
> 
> We could at some point have Featured recipes, or Community supported
>  bundles, these statistics will help us better understand the community's
>  dynamics and needs, and better plan the future core development.

Hello. Five of our most active developers and recipe maintainers have a 
preference not to use the main recipe pages for the lists of users. Of them, 3 
were for a dedicated page, 1 for a section in the Talk page. So, I agree.

I changed the cookbook listings to get the stats from Recipe-Users pages. I 
re-enabled the Cookbook.GroupFooter with a link. (This can be disabled in a 
page with the (:nogroupfooter:) markup.)

I created as examples 2 pages -- Mini-Users and ThumbList-Users -- both are 
particular, having a section "Examples" with links to user-submitted public 
galleries, and a section "Users" for comments without links. The Examples 
sections are of course not required. The lists are also included in the main 
recipe page, but this is also not required.

Recipe maintainers should manage these *-Users pages as they like -- and we 
can always discuss (global/local) improvements. We should probably try to keep 
the comments short by refactoring them and moving longer discussions to the 
related *-Talk pages.

Thanks for your feedback and when you use a recipe and have time, you can add 
your name to the *-Users page.

Thanks!
Petko