Ratings and recommendations
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- Last edited 4 years ago by MLR
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- This page is a draft but has an approved version
The extension BlueSpiceRating allows users to rate a page with up to five stars or to recommend the page.
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Rating or recommending a page
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.
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 ratings is shown next to the page title:
To recommend a page, a user clicks on the link "Recommend". To retract the recommendation, the user clicks on the link again.
Special pages
The 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
You can also exclude pages from the rating system. You can do this with a so-called "Behaviour Switch". Insert the switch at the bottom of the page in source view: __NORATING__
Disabling rating in a namespace
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:
