KeenWiki - rating system for mods

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 11:01

Hi all,

I was thinking that the way the wiki is structured at the moment, it doesn't really lend itself to newcomers stumbling across many of the fine mods we have listed. There tend to be so many in a big long list, people may not know where to start.

To help with this, I have just added a vote/rating link to the infobox attached to most mod pages. I would like to ask anyone who can spare a few minutes to go and rate their favourite mods, so we can get some ratings in the system (and yes if you are the author you are welcome to rate your own mods five out of five!) You will have to be logged in to your wiki account to vote, otherwise it won't count.

Once enough ratings have been cast, I will update the main page with a list of the highest rated mods as these should be the ones that give the best impression to those new to the community. So when you are deciding on a rating, keep in mind that the higher you rate a mod, the more you are recommending it to someone who has not played many (or any) mods.

If anyone has any other suggestions or comments about this, please let me know.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 13:15

The ratings idea is great! I know it's not really a Wiki thing, but can you allow a 25 word recommendation thing too, or (possibly more appropriately) links to the official PCKF thread in the infobox?

Cobalt · Post by **Cobalt** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 15:01

*five stars all the martinez mods*

Post by **Ceilick** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 15:35

Cool. Since the engines and the mods themselves are so different, can Vorticons and Galaxy mods be featured seperately? Keen Dreams mods could be grouped with Galaxy, since there are few in both categories and they are somewhat similar.

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 15:49

I second this. Ranking Vorticon mods against Galaxy mods seems like just asking for skewed results.

Captainkeen · Post by **Captainkeen** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 17:53

lol someone has voted my mod 2 out of 5 stars

So when you are deciding on a rating, keep in mind that the higher you rate a mod, the more you are recommending it to someone who has not played many (or any) mods.

hmm but what about really difficult mods? for example some of Keenrush's mods deserve a high rating but would be a nightmare to play for new players. so it might be a good idea to have a difficulty rating too maybe, but that might overcomplicate things.

Nospike · Post by **Nospike** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 18:46

We're talking people new to mods here - not the actual games. Difficulty shouldn't be an issue.

Benvolio · Post by **Benvolio** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 19:46

Cool idea... However, I had a go at doing a bit of voting and, well, it turns out that some of the mods are not represented by full articles, but just stubs. The voting doesn't work on stubs. So just to let you guys know that the comparison/ranking is not quite on the level.

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 20:41

Some of the mods do link to the PCKF thread, typically this is done by making the release date a link to the announcement thread. If a link here is missing, please feel free to add it.

The voting system works based on categories, so at the moment all the mods are categorised by episode, so a top-ten list would be made up of top ten Keen 1 mods, top ten Keen 2 mods, etc. We'd have to add new categories to have a combined top-ten for all Vorticon episodes for example, but then if someone only has the shareware episodes perhaps it's better to leave it split by episode.

Many mods are represented by stubs or even no page at all, so I am also hoping that this encourages people to "fill in the blanks" so to speak

Post by **Levellass** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 0:29

Indeed, if mod pages were my thing I should fill all of them. (But they aren't so I won't.)

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 0:36

The system's broken! I can't give 0 stars to Keen GBC

Post by **Levellass** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 0:56

That's because anything Keen, no matter how bad, deserves at least one star.

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:39

This is going to sound silly, but where is the rating system? I went to the mods list on the Keen wiki and I don't see what you guys are talking about.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:46

You have to actually go to the page for each individual mod, where it will be on the template at right (I don't think the ratings will be added to the cumulative list until enough have been collected.)

troublesomekeen · Post by **troublesomekeen** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:21

Levellass wrote:Indeed, if mod pages were my thing I should fill all of them. (But they aren't so I won't.)

Hmm... I should make this my thing. I think I would enjoy it. The mods' authors really have the inside scoop though.
Some of the best mods ever made came out this year. I'll be dashed.