Expanding the documentation

Connor Imes rocket2dmn at aol.com
Fri Jun 13 17:50:09 UTC 2008


Dougie Richardson wrote:
>> Nevertheless, I think there is a need to mark-up documentation which
>> has
>> been recognised as being of good quality. Maybe something a little less
>> intrusive than a banner across the top of the page, like a star (as per
>> Wikipedia's "featured articles")?
> 
> Feel free to shoot this down but could we implement some JavaScript to allow
> people to rate pages if they were useful.
> 
> This would give us a way to quantify not only what is useful but what is
> also no longer accessed (if no one is using it then no one is rating it).
> Simple five star roll over or such like, you know like IMDB[1] has.
> 
> Plus it looks cool.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dougie
> 
> [1] http://www.imdb.com/ (if you haven't heard of IMDB, then you may need to
> look up 1995 and the advent of the Internet, lol)
> 

Functionality like that sounds like it could be useful, not sure on the
logistics of implementing it anytime soon, though.  Thoughts?
-Connor




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