Hi,
On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:
I'm not sure where to post this, but I'm pretty sure if I put it here someone from PediaPress will probably read it.
yes :)
I just found out about the PediaPress bookmarklet "create a collection from any MediaWiki" thing and I thought I would try it. I added the "Melbourne" article from en.wikipedia, wikitravel and Wikimedia Commons, as well as an article called "Street press" from somewhere else. When I downloaded the PDF, it contained 3 copies of the en.wikipedia "Melbourne" article and the "Street press" article. So I guess there is some bug with multiple articles from different sources that happen to have the same name.
Yes this is a bug. The feature[1] is rather prototypish. If one wants to implement this correctly much more work is involved, especially to get licence handling right.
Secondly, this is not a bug but a feature request: en.wikipedia in particular produces an awful amount of crud that is not that useful for printing: references, external links etc. For the [[Melbourne]] article, there are 22 pages of beautiful text and images, and no less than 11 1/2 pages of crud, mostly consisting of 184 references. Would it be possible to have an option to exclude references? Maybe replace them all with a note like "To see original references, please visit [url]."
Good idea! I'll add it on the "customization of PDF-output"-wishlist[2].
Heiko
[1] http://pediapress.com/collection/ [2] http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/419#comment:1