Inspired by O'Reilly Media’s "Cookbook" series, we termed word "recipe" to refer a how-to article about software topics to help people to accomplish some specific task or to sovle some specific problem.
In recipester.org each recipe is cocreated and approved by experts,edited in straightword and step by step format,so we can use it without any changes easily,quickly,effectively.It contains a specific problem, a specific step by step solution,and a tips section,a “see aslo” section.
A recipe is a how-to article,cocreated and approved by experts,about software topics.Recipester is a wiki-based community for sharing recipes about topics you are expert in.With recipester you can cocreate recipes and solve specific problems of software in a revolutionary way easier,quicker and more effective.
Recipester has flourished by presenting a lower barrier to participation, maintaining a human-centered collaborative working environment. Easily and quickly, anyone is able to submit a new article, edit pages and share knowledge. The "History" page attached to each article contains every single past revision of the article, so users can compare old and new versions, undo undesirable changes or restore lost content. This feature makes it easy to change or remove a revision with vandalism or spams. Besides, compared with other wiki, Recipester provides structure authoring function, which makes articles better organized and more convenient for sharing.
Content of higher-quality comes from an active participation community of trusted cocreators, most of whom are experts. It is bound to create content of higher-quality, by means of extensive collaboration of professionals and general users’ contributions under the guidance of experts, strict expert approval process and social network tools(collaborative editing, public profile & social recommendation).
Effective & Reliable: The recipes are based on approved experience and always kept up to date. They are effective, reliable, and can be used unchanged.
Professional & Authoritative: Recipester, which is devoted to the field of software and based on published and expert opinions, invites professional editors, software developers, geeks and other experts with rich software experience to cowrite and coedit. As well as collaborative writing, experts play the role of editor: amendment, and guiding writing, approving articles and recommending “spotlight” and “popular recipes”.
Well written: Each Recipester article complies with three criteria of formal publications: lightness, exactitude and visibility. Lightness: The description should be concise. Exactitude: The article must be tightly logical and coherent, avoiding typographical, grammatical, spelling, usage, and other errors of poor writing. Visibility: Each recipe is described step by step with straightforward narrative.
Neutral: Articles represent viewpoints fairly and without bias.
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By allowing users to do collaborative attributes annotation, Recipester has the features of semantic wiki. Therefore, instead of a narrative text of entity, each article contains metadata of the entity as well as its relationships with others. With the above two features, computers are capable of implementing further data miner and process, so the knowledge could be smarter, more accessible and useful.
Recipester only includes authoritative and professional articles of high-quality. Human-powered edited search results are free from spams. Particularly, the sorting and ranking of search results are based on wisdom of crowds-collaborative voting.
As for search, it is difficult for users to figure out the right search term and find relevant results needed indeed within numerous results, while in Recipester, you will get rid of all these troubles.
Search keywords suggestion: It helps you to find the suitable search term with natural language as much as possible.
Multi-filter refinement: Multi-filter refinement is to narrow the search results. Click to choose the suitable filter and quickly get things you really need.
When browsing Google SERPs, in order to compare the attributes of different software and make a choice, you have to open all possible suitable pages and switch among many browser windows,but Recipester enables you to compare the attributes of the picked software side-by-side on a single page, so as to choose the most suitable software effectively.
A good recommendation engine means a great deal to Recipester, because not only does it help users find personalized recipes, but plays an important role in improving articles for the wiki-based community. If you are specialized in or interested in some recommendations that Recipester presents to you, don’t hesitate, make your contribution, please.
Recipester recommends content to you according to the attributes of recipes and software.
Recipester recommends recipes and software to you based on your past behavior on wiki.
Recipester also recommends recipes and software to you based on the past behavior of other similar or relational users (such as your friends).
In this social network of Recipester, each one is not isolated. You can easily discover experts of some field, whose space helps you find better content, like standing on the shoulders of giants.
It’s a fun, rewarding, and worthwhile thing to share the knowledge inside your brain with people all over the world, and help others who need recipes for his problems.
Exposure is marketing. The importance of exposure is self-evident. If good enough, your sparkling articles will be voted as “popular recipes” or “spotlight” and engaged in the web site home page, where they will attract more readers and furthermore get more extensive exposure and other potential press coverage. As Recipester is a vertical community of active participation professionals, you will get to know many evangelists and marketers, who will widely recommend your masterpieces and even give you free advice and help. Join now, step to success!
Add links to your public profile. It encourages visitors to go to your website; Recipester has huge credibility with search engines, so it can help your blog and website rise to the top of Google SERPs,increasing your traffic.
Recipester itself is a social network. Here you will make friends with experts of software from all over the world, with whom you can make collaborative editing and discussion, share hobbies, interest and exciting discoveries. Moreover, you can get suggestions and “social recommendations” from professionals.
The essential primary use of a software, simply considered as software, such as "Graphics Editors" or "icon tools".
You could enter one or more "This is a" items, or select the "This is a" items Recipester suggested.
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<li>Click on the “Browse” link and locate the image you want to upload.
- Find an appropriate image that meets our licensing requirements.
- Be sure that the image is in a format compatible with Recipester's software (JPEG, PNG, GIF).
- If your image is in another format (e.g., bitmap, or BMP), you must first convert it into one of the accepted formats.
After uploading, all the uploaded images will appear in the box under Insert Image(s), simply put the one first which you want it to be the cover.
Attributes can be edited on article editing pages, just fill in the attribute values besides attribute names.
With Recipester, you can add/customize software attributes simply by clicking on the “Add Software Attribute” button. Attribute names and attribute values can be edited freely.
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A tag cloud is simply a way to view a group of tags in a denser way than a list would ordinarily allow. Since tag clouds arrange tags both horizontally and vertically, you can see more tags with less scrolling. We employ some visual cues such as text sizing and bolding to represent more often used tags.
You can tag for any articles on article page. Click the Plus icon on the article page you want to tag. For more information, see here.
When browsing an article you have the rights to vote if you like it by simply clicking "I like" button.
Yes, you can cancel your vote anytime. Click "Cancel" button on your article page to make your changes.
Recipester has provided you with several functions such as Profile, Tags, Software, Recipe and User stream after logging in. All these show in the same page template, i.e. a user’s space.
Recipester automatically saves a record of your activities. User stream is a good function for other users to know about your activities and share your contribution. It will take you to your interested article page by clicking on the items on User Stream.
When browsing or discover an article you have the rights to vote if you like it by simply clicking on the “I like” link. All the voted articles will be added in your Favorite software or Favorite recipes. The latest Five will be shown on the home page of your space.
Yes, you can send private or public messages in the message board once you have logged in.
Yes, any recipes which are representative, and chosen from the popular recipes are eligible to be shown under spotlight.
To report a problem, please contact us.
In the Recipester, click on the "Flag this article" link beneath an article. Fill in the form, describing what the error subject was. We will research the problem and email you a response.
You can also report problems by "Discussion", the steps are as follows,
Write a Recipe
Recommend a Software
