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.
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