On 20.11.2008, at 02:23, j.w. thomas wrote:
Could this explain the problem I've been having? [...] will exceeding 800 pages result in this error:
An Error Occured on the MediaWiki Site
It shouldn't: The resulting page on pediapress.com should say "The size of content exceeds our limitations" together with some explanation text.
When the above error occurs, it means that an error occured somewhere in the process when articles/templates/images are packaged on the MediaWiki side and transferred to PediaPress.
About the problem with this particular collection [[Wikibooks:Collections/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Nature]]: If you just load it and click the "Order book from PediaPress" button, the error occurs. That's because at some point, the packaging process for this collection had an error and the data is cached[1]. But if you change something (e.g. enter a different title or subtitle) before clicking the button, the packaging is triggered again and the upload works (which *does* result in a book exceeding the current limits for PediaPress books BTW :).
[1] How long the data is cached is configurable: It's a cron-Job that has to be set up, which deletes all files that are older than N hours.
Maybe if I divided the book into two volumes...
It's definitely planned to offer this automatically to the customer on PediaPress. Unfortunately, I can't give a timeframe for that.
-- Johannes Beigel