We have a requirement to put together a collaborative environment, which
will be populated with content that our viewers might like to print out in
pdf. The content will be organized into categories, and all the topics
under a category need to be printed in one pdf document.
I've taken a look at media wiki, and I think I see a way to make this
happen.
1. Use the category feature of mediawiki, to organize all the pages. (we
will have maybe 5 categories). Currently when you click on a category, you
get a list of all articles in that category. I would like to add a "Expand
All" button/link, which will expand all the articles in place, into one html
page.
2. Then it's a simple enough matter to use a htmltopdf converter for the
printing to pdf file.
I am willing to start coding this, but as I have never seen the mediawiki
codebase before, I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers, or potential
traps they see with this approach. I have read much of the information at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker, and would
be willing to incorporate this feature back into MediaWiki.
thoughts?
sb