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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