[Textbook-l] Textbook-l Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1

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On 9/2/10, textbook-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org
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>    1. Experimental Wikibooks Importer (adam hyde)
>    2. Re: Experimental Wikibooks Importer (Aaron Adrignola)
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> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:57:05 +0200
> From: adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> Subject: [Textbook-l] Experimental Wikibooks Importer
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> hi,
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> Thought the list might be interested in this:
> http://blog.booki.cc/?p=141
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> "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:
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>         ?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/
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> 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!"
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:57:26 -0500
> From: Aaron Adrignola <aaron.adrignola at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] Experimental Wikibooks Importer
> To: adam at flossmanuals.net, 	Wikimedia textbook discussion
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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
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> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:57 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
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>> 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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