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Would like to start a page for Good venders, links and reviews

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sirwoogie:

--- Quote from: Buddabing on June 27, 2006, 09:04:44 am ---I would like a template that displays all user reviews for a given vendor, and has a button for "Add a Review" which then automatically updates the page.

Is that doable in a wiki?

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Not as you described. Wiki lets you edit the reviews, but anybody could change the posted review as they wish (thus you get a bad review, someone could modify the review).

My suggestion would be to have a link back to a topic in the forum for that page. We don't expire topics or articles, so it should be viable for the life of the Wiki. Also, users that post in the thread could only change their individual post, thus you couldn't inject changes to a review.

If you really wanted to get funky, a bot could be made that looks at that topic in the forum (that also has a pole on the ranking for the user 1-10) and updates the wiki page. I'm not opposed to hosting the bots, but I just don't have a lot of time at the moment to write them. There is an API and instruction sheet out there if anybody is interested.

Space Fractal:
But they can look in the histoiry, if somebody have edited a post. I also guess we are have respect to not to edit other user reviews, like the talk pages....

I have layoutet the review part into a gray table, and used the both vendors and review back links. Vendors, that only have the rating page should also been added in the vendor part at last.

sirwoogie:
Well, the Wiki concept is not really designed for user reviews. I do understand that history can be looked at, but who is going to police that? With using the forum, the ability to change is not provided, thus implied viability.

MYX:
I have added a link to the BYOAC discussion about Mame Marquees as it was a discussion that I knew of and had started some time back. I think that it gives insight to the reader as the thread sometimes turns into full discussions and good info can be obtained from it.

I think that at some point we have to hope that if someone is going as far as getting an account and going in to edit, that they are there for the right purposes. I know that there are always bad apples, but it seems that so far we are all in this hobby trying to better it and make it shine. The danger would exsist for the rest of the wiki as well if jim jerkoff wanted to goof up pages. I think that there should be a penalty for malicious activity on the wiki. Perhaps... banned from BYOAC all together.

Space Fractal:
Yes, good post MYX.

Other thing could, if the review or some thing, that should been locked, could hold in a IFRAME. The Contect of the IFRAME could been a simple php guestbook, that can hold comment of this vendor (rather that review).

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