Template talk:Ratings

How will this average feature work: will it need to be updated manually when a new score is added? I know MediaWiki has a basic system that we can use to automate everything, but how will this extend to multiconsole and Template:Num?
Hell, we should probably automate the magazines that don't use a single number...- Andlabs 16:33, 14 August 2011 (CDT)

I just calculated things by hand - I think there was an attempt at automating things when we first made this template but it didn't work out. Besides, if you're working with multiple consoles it'll probably get a bit confused. It's tedious, but hunting out old magazines in the first place probably takes longer.

More of an experiment to see if it would look nice really. Tons of pages use this template and it would take a while to go through them all and add avereages -Black Squirrel 05:03, 15 August 2011 (CDT)

testes

	25	Sega Retro Average
		Show review scores

	50	Sega Retro Average
		Show review scores

	75	Sega Retro Average
		Show review scores

	47	Sega Retro Average
		Hide review scores
Publication Score Source DC-UK 53 №11 DC-UK 2: DC Harder 15 №101 DC-UK with a Vengeance 85 №501 Live Free or DC-UK 35 №7 A Good Day to DC-UK 97 [1]

	86	Sega Retro Average
		Hide review scores
Publication Score Source DC-UK 53 №11 DC-UK 2: DC Harder 15 №101 DC-UK with a Vengeance 85 №501 Live Free or DC-UK 35 №7 A Good Day to DC-UK 97 №321

or is this too much like Metacritic

the idea here is that it would be one per system and you'd be able to show/hide each list, thus reducing clutter. Probably needs tweaking. Probably not easy to convert into a proper, working template either. But yeah -Black Squirrel 16:20, 9 December 2011 (CST)

If we do go with that one, there might be a way to automate taking the averages but it might involve an extension and might not work with the average at the top; I'd have to look into it - Andlabs 16:35, 9 December 2011 (CST)

I really like this, but we also -really- need it to do averaging automatically. If we have to get an extension to do it, so be it. - Scarred Sun 14:35, 15 December 2011 (CST)

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If you see 7 2 5, then we have both ParserFunctions and Variables extensions, which should be all we need (as far as I can tell)
Maybe we can also make it slightly fancier by providing things like an automatic GamePro score calculator that one can show the original score as a popup, but IDK if/how that would work - Andlabs 16:50, 15 December 2011 (CST)

ok so we have ParserFunctions but not Variables - Andlabs 16:55, 15 December 2011 (CST)

OK now that it works

I went ahead and added a collapsible element on the template (I had wanted it to show "out of x reviews" but it looked kind of assy that way.) My question is: how do we want to handle rescored games? That is, a game gets reviewed in one issue of a magazine and then gets a second review (usually for a buyer's guide or something.) My gut is to go with the first recorded review, as that stays truer to the time and truer to the goal of getting all reviews of that time. - Scarred Sun 23:54, 17 March 2012 (CDT)

I already made a "cvg_1" for second Computer & Video Games reviews. I wouldn't like to not have second review scores recorded, but I'd be fine with not counting them towards the average. - Hivebrain 00:20, 18 March 2012 (CDT)

Perhaps something after the template, to indicate that a rescore happened?

	52	Sega Retro Average
		Based on 2 reviews
Publication Score Source Honest Reviews 100 №120 Irate Gamer 4 №14
The following rescores later happened: Magazine New Score Notes Honest Reviews 10 №124 revealed that the CEO of Honest Reviews's publisher Good Reads had been paid by Acclaim to spin a positive review in the hopes that would lead to some good publicity as the game had been mercilessly torn to bits by every other major publication at the time. He personally ghostwrote the review and snuck it in the galley proofs reportedly mere minutes before they went to the press. Upon finding this out, the original reviewer quit and sued Acclaim and Good Reads; Good Reads's CEO resigned shortly thereafter. Irate Gamer 52 №13 accidentally swapped the review breakouts for this game and Time Travel Salesman Simulator 3.

...on second thought that could get unwieldly, but explaining the situation might be helpful - Andlabs 00:35, 18 March 2012 (CDT)

They don't usually give reasons for rereviews. Just stick them at the bottom of the list like this:

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Computer & Video Games (UK) 90 №123 Mean Machines (UK) 82 №45 Computer & Video Games (rescore) 100 №125

	86
Based on 2 reviews

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score

	N/A
Based on 0 reviews

Ratings

- Hivebrain 01:16, 18 March 2012 (CDT)

I'd average the two scores. So if CVG gave the game 78 one month and 80 the next, we'd list it as 79 and provide two sources.

The problem is, you can't always treat the first review as the most accurate. Some magazines review the import version of a game before the localised one. -Black Squirrel 05:20, 18 March 2012 (CDT)

On another note, I'd like to figure out a way to have the "based on # reviewS" show up on the collapsed box without it looking gay. "Oh hey, this game has a 58 review, it must be meh... wait it's based on one review :/" - Andlabs 15:10, 18 March 2012 (CDT)

Non-listed magazines

How do you add ratings for magazines not listed, such as Zero?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_%28video_game_magazine%29

Like I just did - see the history -Black Squirrel 05:26, 21 May 2012 (CDT)

I understand now, thank you.