On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Heiko Hees heiko@pediapress.com wrote:
Andrew,
- The connection to PediaPress seems unreliable. Clicking "Order Book
from PediaPress" returns an error about as often as it succeeds. I will try to record more data about this failure mode next time I see it
we are investigating but were unable to reproduce this. Do you remember whether the error message said something like "a timeout occurred" ?
I actually can't reproduce it anymore myself, so maybe it's fixed now. Could have been server load problems on the WMF end, I know we had a lot of that on tuesday. The error was a POST timeout error.
- In addition to the GFDL, I would like to be able to specify
additional boiler-plate preface and appendix text, such as an "About Wikibooks" page that will be automatically included in all books (perhaps as checkbox option, if some people don't want it). This way when/if we start to distribute/sell these books, recipients will know what the book is, where to find the electronic copy of it, how to edit and improve it, etc. I'm working on a page now (at [[Wikibooks:Collections Preface]]) that people can include manually for now, but having to manually include this page in every collection we make will be annoying.
A possible solution would be to (automatically) start new collections based on a saved collections (as a template) which already includes this page. Users could remove or exchange the preface on the collection page if they have different preferences.
Automatically starting from a saved template somewhere would definitely be awesome. That would allow us to specify all sorts of local things (including a local copy of the GFDL, to fix the issue of the bad shortcut) that authors could opt-out of on a per-case basis. This would be a very very nice feature.
free to report other bugs using this tracker or on the technical
mailinglist for this project: http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib
I may very well have to join that list, because I'm going to generate A LOT of feedback over time. Thanks!
--Andrew Whitworth