On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Heiko Hees <heiko(a)pediapress.com> wrote:
Andrew,
1) 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.
4) 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
I may very well have to join that list, because I'm going to generate
A LOT of feedback over time. Thanks!
--Andrew Whitworth