TL;DR: please migrate to
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php that uses ePub 3
by default and supports PDF.
Hi everyone,
As a lot of you already knows, there is a new version of Wsexport running on Wikimedia
tools labs that support PDF [1].
It is up and running since last May and I believe it is now time to migrate our on-wiki
links to it and deprecate
http://wsexport.wmflabs.org. So, please, update the links to
Wsexport in the templates and JS scripts of your wiki.
I have also made one big change to the
tools.wmflabs.org version: switch the default ePub
format from ePub 2 to ePub 3. This change will allow us to provide better ePubs by
default, with nice features like footnotes displayed in popups (works only with some
readers like iBooks).
I believe it should not break most of reading devices but this is an assumption that
should be verified. So, if you could download your favorite books in ePub 3 and test them
on your good old ereaders it would be very nice in order to don't break the reading
experience of our readers. If you encounter any problem, please open a bug on GitHub [2].
Cheers,
Thomas (Tpt)
PS : I have also updated the stat page of the
tools.wmflabs.org instance:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/stat.php
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php
[2]
https://github.com/wsexport/tool/issues