Heiko Hees wrote:
Maybe one could use ordinary wiki pages ("featured collections") to list good and maintained collections. Collections could also be linked from topic main pages (books, portals, ...). Do you think this will be sufficient or is a more formal and technically supported solution necessary?
Please comment and post your thoughts on how to improve the usability?
IMO, Wikibooks should continue using Featured Books. Each book (featured or not) should provide a link to an associated collection. I see the collections feature as completely replacing the "Print version" stuff we had before and which I thought never worked very well in the first place.
To this end, I created a template called [[Collection]], and WK subsequently improved it. It can be placed on the front page of a book and it announces the existence of an associated collection - the thought being that a reader first finds a book that catches his interest using the traditional routes - then discovers that it has an associated collection.
I think it would be great of the "Printable version" link would somehow link to a collection - or at a minimum, create a collection with only that page in it.