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The extension BlueSpiceRating allows users to rate a page with up to five stars or to recommend the page.

What is Rating?

Rating or recommending a page[edit | edit source]

Rating enables to rate articles with up to five stars. The user can change his assessment at any time, A user simply selects the amount of stars for a rating. The number of stars are then hightlighted in yellow during the selection process. A mouse-click confirms the rating.

Screenshot: submit a rating

Only one rating per user is counted. New votes only change the average evaluation, but not the number of ratings.

Users can change their rating at any time by choosing less or more stars. The average evaluation, as well as the number of assessments, are displayed.

The user can change his assessments at any time, because can rate as often as wants. Only the first assessment counts. The others only change the average evaluation, but not the number of assessments.

Where to find Rating?ratings is shown next to the page title:
Rating and recommending a page
Rating and recommending a page
To recommend a page, a user clicks on the link "Recommend". To retract the recommendation, the user clicks on the link again.

Special pages[edit | edit source]

The feature is placed right at the article. There are two possibilities where it can be placed: next to the article title.

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Summary of Evaluations[edit | edit source]

There is a special page Special:Ratings where you can find an overview of all evaluations, which have been made in your wiki. Every column of this listing can be sorted ascending or descending.

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Further Information

special page Special:Rating lists all pages that have been rated.

The special page Special:Recommendations lists all pages that have been recommended.

Disabling rating on a page[edit | edit source]

You can also exclude pages from the rating system. The tool won´t be shown on this pages. You can do this with a so-called "Behaviour Switch". The switch must be inserted in the article, to avoid the display of the rating tool. Just insert in the code of the wiki article.

Admin information

Insert the switch at the bottom of the page in source view: __NORATING__

Disabling rating in a namespace[edit | edit source]

To define at which position the star rating should be shown, go to the admin preferences. You can find them in the main navigation tab "Admin" at the menue item "Preferences". Fold out the menues "BlueSpice" and BlueSpice - MediaWiki settings" there. You can find the menue for ratings there.

You can choose between Article title and Status bar, to define whether to display the star symbols next to the title or in the StatusBar. In addition to this, you can configure in which namespaces the rating system should be activated. Just choose the namespaces in the drop down menue. For choosing more than one, hold the ctrl button and click on the namespaces you need.

See also[edit | edit source]

Our reference page.

Administrators can turn on the rating feature for individual namespaces. To enable or disable ratings, go to Global actions > Namespace manager and edit the namespaces:


Screenshot: Namespace settings


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