That's right, Nicolas.
Wikisource and Wikibooks do not use OCG for most of their PDF rendering.
This pause of functionality will only impact PDFs created through Book
Creator, and not impact the workflows you describe as you're using
different rendering services for PDFs. Books previously generated using OCG
will not be impacted, either.
Wikibooks does have the book creator tool, called "Creation Collector,"
which will be impacted. I'm not sure how much it's used there.
Unfortunately, OCG is in a state where it can't be maintained and we need
to deprecate it in order to maintain security. There are other reasons for
moving to a new service. For example, OCG can't render tables. If you look
at the mediawiki page I linked earlier[1] you can see the rest of the
rationale and the timeline for the changes.
I'm adding Olga Vasileva, the product manager leading this work, for any
further questions.
Thanks,
Anne
1-
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:01 AM, Nicolas VIGNERON <
vigneron.nicolas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Maybe I'm misunderstood the situation but I'm not sure to understand the
problem: does anyone use OCG?
I thought that not one use it anymore (if it was ever used... at least onf
the French wikisource it never really worked well as it didn't understand
the 'pages' tag we use on almost all pages) and we have our own
PDF/ePub/mobi generator (
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php).
SO don't we all use WSexport?
I see very few pages on
https://en.wikisource.org/w/
index.php?title=Special:PrefixIndex&prefix=Wikisource:Books/ , most of
them generated a long time ago, so I don't think that this will have any
impact on Wikisource.
Cdlt, ~nicolas
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