Hello.
The Wikibooks projects make heavy use of hierarchical structures using "/" as delimiter in page titles which can result in very long article titles in rendered documents and books. With this changeset
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/73454
(and the follow-up r73456) it's now possible to tell the Collection extension via
$wgCollectionHierarchyDelimiter = "/";
to set the part after the last "/" in a page title as a "display title", i.e., the title that is displayed/rendered instead of the real page title (cf. the part about renaming articles on the help page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books/for_experts#Saving_books).
I suggest that this setting will be included in the configurations of the MediaWiki installations for Wikibooks.
(Unfortunately this can't be enabled as a default for all MediaWiki installations, because there are lots of wikis that have "normal" page titles with "/" in them, e.g. [[AC/DC]] on en.wikipedia.org.)
-- Johannes Beigel
Really Great work !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> hi,
>
> Thought the list might be interested in this:
> http://blog.booki.cc/?p=141
>
> "Experimental Wikibooks Importing
> Jan Gerber, a friend of Booki and a great programmer (author of
> FFMPEG2Theora and other essential tools) wrote a extension to Booki to
> import books from the Wikimedia Foundation project Wikibooks. There is
> information about how to import Wikibooks into Booki in the Booki User
> Guide.
>
> Wikibooks has been around for a long time and has been compiling
> collections of free books. We thought it would be interesting to see if
> its possible to automate the import of these books into Booki. Doing
> this would open up the export possibilities for the content in
> Wikibooks. it would be possible, for example, for wikibooks to be
> exported into ePub, Book formatted PDF, ODT etc through Booki.
>
> Jan developed the code to do this and it works pretty well. We have a
> few issues to work out with it and some interesting ideas on how to
> extend this. Mike Linksvlayer suggested:
>
> ?as I?m writing this it occurs to me that it would be fairly
> simple to create a supplement for the book mostly or even
> entirely consisting of a collection of relevant Wikipedia
> articles ? see examples of such books created using PediaPress;
> another approach would be to add a feature to Booki (the
> software used to create Collaborative Futures) to facilitate
> importing chapters from Wikipedia.?
> http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2010/08/26/collaborative-futures-org/
>
>
> Good idea! We liked it so much we added it to our development to-dos. If
> you are interested in hacking away at this feature, perhaps using the
> work that Jan has already done to get you started then please let us
> know!"
>
>
>
>
>
> adam
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:57:26 -0500
> From: Aaron Adrignola <aaron.adrignola(a)gmail.com>
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> The Collections extension at Wikibooks will allow for exporting books to PDF
> and ODT formats right now, however. Maybe they could expand it to include
> ePub as well.
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Book
>
> -Adrignola
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:57 AM, adam hyde <adam(a)flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>
>> Wikibooks has been around for a long time and has been compiling
>> collections of free books. We thought it would be interesting to see if
>> its possible to automate the import of these books into Booki. Doing
>> this would open up the export possibilities for the content in
>> Wikibooks. it would be possible, for example, for wikibooks to be
>> exported into ePub, Book formatted PDF, ODT etc through Booki.
>>
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hi,
Thought the list might be interested in this:
http://blog.booki.cc/?p=141
"Experimental Wikibooks Importing
Jan Gerber, a friend of Booki and a great programmer (author of
FFMPEG2Theora and other essential tools) wrote a extension to Booki to
import books from the Wikimedia Foundation project Wikibooks. There is
information about how to import Wikibooks into Booki in the Booki User
Guide.
Wikibooks has been around for a long time and has been compiling
collections of free books. We thought it would be interesting to see if
its possible to automate the import of these books into Booki. Doing
this would open up the export possibilities for the content in
Wikibooks. it would be possible, for example, for wikibooks to be
exported into ePub, Book formatted PDF, ODT etc through Booki.
Jan developed the code to do this and it works pretty well. We have a
few issues to work out with it and some interesting ideas on how to
extend this. Mike Linksvlayer suggested:
“as I’m writing this it occurs to me that it would be fairly
simple to create a supplement for the book mostly or even
entirely consisting of a collection of relevant Wikipedia
articles — see examples of such books created using PediaPress;
another approach would be to add a feature to Booki (the
software used to create Collaborative Futures) to facilitate
importing chapters from Wikipedia.”
http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2010/08/26/collaborative-futures-org/
Good idea! We liked it so much we added it to our development to-dos. If
you are interested in hacking away at this feature, perhaps using the
work that Jan has already done to get you started then please let us
know!"
adam
--
Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals &
Booki Project Manager
Contact Information
German mobile : + 49 177 4935122
Email : adam(a)flossmanuals.net
irc : irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals
"Free manuals for free software"
http://www.flossmanuals.net/about
Free Software for making Free Books
http://www.booki.cc/