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    • How to hold a writing contest based on user votes

    Posted by brandanhadlock posts: 84

    Hi. I'm wanting to use my wiki site to hold a writing contest with the winner determined by who gets the most registered user votes for what they have posted. Do you have some suggestions on how to do this?

    Here are two possible ways that might work:

    1)Is there a way to have a poll that appears only on wiki pages of a certain category — and that is based on a template. The extra hassle that this method would bring is that I'd have to manually compare the poll results of every entery to find the winner

    2) Another method I thought of is to have a survey on a side menu. In order for that to work, the survey would have to have a drop down that showed the page title for every single entry (which I assume would be based on category). Is this possible?

    How do I make the methods above work — if they are even possible?

    Do you have any other, more elegant and simple methods? I hope so.

    I am using tiki 5.0 and my site is www.promotethegood.com

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4656 Japan

    To use Tiki's poll feature, all the choices/contenders need to be listed in the poll. This could appear in a module in a side column or on wiki pages, with display controlled by the category parameter for the module, if you want to limit the display to the contender pages.

    I don't know if there's an out-of-the-box way to put a generic (no built-in list of contenders) "vote for me" form on every contender page. Maybe this could be done with a tracker and a tracker plugin. But an advantage of the poll feature is that it prevents multiple voting. A from-scratch tracker solution would have to have that added somehow.

    Maybe other people have other/better ideas.

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Darren posts: 289 United States

    I'm not really fully sure of the mechanics of it, but you could allow Article submissions and also allow them to be rated. This might run into the same issue that Gary mentioned above of individuals casting multiple ratings (I'm not really sure to be honest since "ratings" aren't quite the same thing as "votes"), but this might be less of a problem if you're limiting the voting/rating to only registered users.

    A poll is certainly a straight-forward solution, and one nice thing about the poll is that it's concise and in one place. User usage and interaction certainly has to be a key consideration when user interaction is required/critical. If you make it too complex or involved then unless you have a dedicated community most people won't bother.

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