Short description

Sometimes it could be useful to have the possibility to use an action macro to recommend a page useful for someone else. This recommendation could be added to a subpage of the users homepage. Probably the user could have configured in User/Preferences to accept this feature.

Often someone asks something and afterwords you describe the problem/solution in a wiki or it is already there. It would be fine to have a common place to add links about requests for someone. e.g.

This feature can help to solve the problem with RecentChangesConsideredHarmful - emphasizing what is going on in the wiki, and hiding pages with very high quality, just because nobody changed them recently.

This can be part of the page meta data, then used in searches. The simplest thing could be another meta data entry:

Recommend: UserName

For easier use, we can have a macro that add your recommendation for you with single click.

More advanced system can keep an opaque count of recommendations, and give the page a rank, like {*} {*} {*} {o} {o} .

How this rank is calculated in an interesting question. For example, can a user recommend a page more than once? can you remove your "vote"? What about anonymous users?

Maybe the true wiki way is to just use a meta data of:

Rank: 3

No calculation, no magic, the community simply set the rank through discussion, like any other text in the wiki.


Sorry, I don't understand the reason for this feature request. Why don't you simply put a link and a message on the user home page? Having a ranking system is a different thing. But this is quite complicated because it involves things like trust... -- FlorianFesti 2005-03-18 17:19:09


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MoinMoin: FeatureRequests/RecommendAPage (last edited 2007-10-29 19:20:32 by localhost)