Wixpert:Ratings

Wixpert users give each other feedback by rating the edits they make. Ratings are given as either a thumbs up (positive feedback) or thumbs down (negative feedback). Ratings are given to the changes users make on articles. They are not used to rate the article as a whole. For example, if a user fixes a typo on a poorly written article, then that edit deserves positive feedback, even if the article itself is still low quality. The ratings users receive determines their rank.

Positive Ratings
Positive ratings should be given freely to users for making meaningful contributions to the site. The standard by which you give positive feedback is your own choosing.

For example, one user might correct a typo while another rewrites a whole article to make it clearer. Both are positive contributions and deserve positive feedback. However, the larger edit deserves more positive votes. When the Wixpert community has a variety of feedback standards, larger edits will receive more positive feedback.

Negative Ratings
Negative feedback should be used sparingly. It is customary to assume good faith- new and inexperienced users are likely to make honest mistakes. These mistakes should be corrected, but the users do not necessarily deserve negative ratings. Too much negative feedback can get a user banned, and it is not helpful to ban new users who have made honest mistakes.

Negative feedback should be used against intentionally harmful edits. Spam, vandalism, and other harmful edits should be discouraged with negative feedback, and may lead to unhelpful users being banned.

How to Give Ratings
Edits may be rated on the history, diff, file, recent changes, watchlist, or contributions page. Any edit that can be rated will have thumb up/down buttons as well as the total number of up and down votes. If an edit can be rated but the rating has been disabled, the thumb icons will appear gray. Edits that cannot be rated will not display the thumb icons.

How to Get Ratings
Ratings will only appear on edits to content pages and images. Edits to other pages such as user, discussion, help, or policy pages (pages that start with 'User:', 'Talk:', 'Help:', or 'Wixpert:') will not be rateable. To improve your rank, be sure to edit content pages.

Ratings on Images
To rate an image, go to the image's page. Each version of the image can be rated. To be fair to our photographers and graphic artists, ratings given to images are more powerful than regular ratings on text edits.