Send Textbook-l mailing list submissions to textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to textbook-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at textbook-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Textbook-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Experimental Wikibooks Importer (adam hyde) 2. Re: Experimental Wikibooks Importer (Aaron Adrignola) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:57:05 +0200 From: adam hyde &lt;adam(a)flossmanuals.net&gt; Subject: [Textbook-l] Experimental Wikibooks Importer To: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <1283417825.1641.10.camel@esetera> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" hi, Thought the list might be interested in this: http://blog.booki.cc/?p=141 "Experimental Wikibooks Importing Jan Gerber, a friend of Booki and a great programmer (author of FFMPEG2Theora and other essential tools) wrote a extension to Booki to import books from the Wikimedia Foundation project Wikibooks. There is information about how to import Wikibooks into Booki in the Booki User Guide. Wikibooks has been around for a long time and has been compiling collections of free books. We thought it would be interesting to see if its possible to automate the import of these books into Booki. Doing this would open up the export possibilities for the content in Wikibooks. it would be possible, for example, for wikibooks to be exported into ePub, Book formatted PDF, ODT etc through Booki. Jan developed the code to do this and it works pretty well. We have a few issues to work out with it and some interesting ideas on how to extend this. Mike Linksvlayer suggested: ?as I?m writing this it occurs to me that it would be fairly simple to create a supplement for the book mostly or even entirely consisting of a collection of relevant Wikipedia articles ? see examples of such books created using PediaPress; another approach would be to add a feature to Booki (the software used to create Collaborative Futures) to facilitate importing chapters from Wikipedia.? http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2010/08/26/collaborative-futures-org/ Good idea! We liked it so much we added it to our development to-dos. If you are interested in hacking away at this feature, perhaps using the work that Jan has already done to get you started then please let us know!" adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals & Booki Project Manager Contact Information German mobile : + 49 177 4935122 Email : adam(a)flossmanuals.net irc : irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals "Free manuals for free software" http://www.flossmanuals.net/about Free Software for making Free Books http://www.booki.cc/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:57:26 -0500 From: Aaron Adrignola &lt;aaron.adrignola(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] Experimental Wikibooks Importer To: adam(a)flossmanuals.net, Wikimedia textbook discussion &lt;textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTikVteU-UJ6cWZ7V-B97ndjEhxR06=BrPLgwvJ1f(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 The Collections extension at Wikibooks will allow for exporting books to PDF and ODT formats right now, however. Maybe they could expand it to include ePub as well. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Book -Adrignola On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:57 AM, adam hyde &lt;adam(a)flossmanuals.net&gt; wrote: ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l End of Textbook-l Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1 *****************************************