Dungeons and Dragons Wiki:Rating Articles

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Rating articles is a process that helps us find and show off community homebrew favorites, while also providing feedback and critiques of those articles we don't like quite as much. All registered users are welcome and encouraged to rate homebrew articles.

Rating a Homebrew Article

Rating an article is as easy as clicking the link in the information box on the right side of the page! If you aren't logged in, it's slightly more involved: you have to fill in a template on the article's talk page. Simply copy the code below into a talk page, fill in the sections as indicated, and save the page. The article will update with the new rating within a couple of days, or you can edit and save the article to show the changes immediately. 

{{Rating 
|rater=<-your wiki username-> 
|rating=<-choose one of: like, dislike, or neither-> 
|reason=<-the reason the article deserves the rating you are giving it->
}}

More detailed instructions and examples regarding the use of use this template can be found on the Rating Template page.

Legacy Ratings

We used to have a smaller group of people tasked with doing article ratings. That didn't work out for a number of reasons. They used the RC Favor template, and you should not use it for any new ratings. A RC favor of 0 is treated as a dislike, a favor of 1 is treated as a non-vote, and a favor of 2 is treated as a like vote. Articles with these ratings on them can be found in Category:Legacy Rating, and authors of these ratings should update or remove them at their earliest convenience.

Rated Pages

While adding any rating is useful, users may also want to find pages that have already been rated to add their own voice to. The following links are intended to make finding pages with existing ratings as easy as possible.

Users may also want to find articles rated by a particular user. The following link is useful for this, but you will need to enter their user name in the "Value" field. This field is case sensitive, so if you enter the name incorrectly you will not get useful results.

Community Favorites

An article that has 4 more likes than dislikes is eligible to be shown on the main page as a community favorite. These articles are show in a random rotation, with one appearing each time anyone loads the main page, and are a great way for a great piece of work to get the attention of more casual users of the wiki.

Adding an article to this rotation is not an automatic process, however, and requires a bit of additional work. It may also simply not happen, as it requires the intervention of a user with administrative privileges (due to protection of the main page), giving admin users a sort of soft-veto over the entire process.

Article Summary

The article must have a paragraph or two summary written up about it, in the same way that published works have a product blurb on their back cover. This may be written by anyone once the article has reached community favorite status, though the author of the article retains final say over the form of their blurb.

The favorite blurb can be created by replacing the "Favorite Article (Identifier)" text in the field below with the article name, like "Amazing Writing (3.5e Feat)", and clicking the button. This will take you to a new page with fields that can be edited for the favored article. If there already is a favorite blurb for the article, you will instead be taken to it for editing.

Adding to Rotation

Once the summary has been written and formatted, the author (or one of the co-authors) or the summary will need to ask a user with administrative access to add the summary to the main page rotation. The summary will be copied to another location, and once there can only be edited or updated by a user with administrative access, so the authors should be sure that they are happy with the summary before it is moved. The admin user will then follow the process below to add the summary to the rotation.

If the admin user is unresponsive, the author(s) should feel free to ask another admin user to complete the process. No more than one administrative user should be asked at any given time, however. There's no reason to spam these requests, and doing so may cause all of the admins to ignore the request.

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