Forum:Page rating system. Is one possible?

Hi I Co-Founded and run the Awesomenuats Wiki and have been working on a system that allows users to submit guides on how to play each character in the game. One of the things that would make this system more usable to visitors is to allow the pages to be rated. This way the best guides could rise to the top of stack and visitors would know which ones are more reliable.

My question is: Is this possible to do on Wikia? The only way I have thought to do this is by using my SQL server that I use on other sites, but that seems out of the spirit of a wiki (having soul ownership of a major part of the wiki). Anyone has any ideas on how this could be done? I still lack knowledge on alot of what wikia can and can't do. (unsigned: Littlefreak3000 19:34, October 15, 2012‎)


 * There's a lot that you can do on wikia. I don't know what would work best for your wiki, but I can share what I have done.
 * First, I defined a list of elements which can be rated - such as having a good structure, 10+ links to/from, images, references - I came up with 20.
 * Then I made a template which could be used to check off which things appeared on the page.
 * The template adds them up and shows the rating on the page, as well as adding the page to one of several hidden rating categories. Pages in the "Gold" category are eligible for "featured" status, and people can add summaries to those pages which can be randomly selected.
 * What you can also do with the template is use a DPL query to list all articles by rating.
 * Of course, you can avoid the templates and DPL queries completely and just have a manual rating page on your wiki.
 * I'd suggest looking at how other wikias handle article ratings and see what you think would work for you. -452 00:29, October 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * Could you point me to the templates you were talking about in the third line please. I'd like to get an idea of the method you are using. Thanks for the replay. Littlefreak3000 (talk) 01:21, October 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sure, here's the Rating template - it's CC-BY-SA, so feel free to use any or all of it. I usually adapt templates from other wikias, but I started from scratch on this one.
 * This templates only rates common elements of articles, rather than rating the content. For specific purposes you can add a lot more specific elements, I don't know anything about Awesomenauts specifically, but I imagine there would be certain things which you would expect each character guide to address.  For instance, if each guide has to address each level, you could add that to the template.
 * The template in particular has ungone a few revisions, the source started out being more complicated than it had to be, but I went back and simplified it later, so at this point it should be pretty easy to adapt if you wanted to use it. One thing I wanted from the outset was for copy/pasting the blank template to be easy for anyone to do, so that any user could rate an article without relying on an experienced user to do it.
 * There's two sections to the template source, the first gives a numerical score out of 20, the second displays a star for each item in the list. They're independent, so you could take either part of the template if you wanted just one or the other to be displayed. -452  23:53, October 17, 2012 (UTC)