I believe that adding all articles in a category and also in all subcategories would result in many unwanted articles in the book. By carefully selecting a category with only a few subcategories this problem could be avoided, but I believe in most cases adding subcategories as well has undesired effects.
By using the "suggested articles" button on the build page you should ideally get the "best" articles in the subcategories as well (after you added some articles you want in your book). I am aware that currently it is not possible to add all suggested articles - we are thinking about adding this functionality.
-- Volker
Since many categories have lots of articles assigned to them and also
Ben Yates wrote:
One major usability issue is that articles directly in a category are added when the category is added, but not articles within subcategories. This can lead to some strange results.
On 7/13/06, Volker Haas volker.haas@brainbot.com wrote:
Hi Jack, thanks for your comment about the principle author list. We try to improve that. Sorry for the inconvenience with the contact form - that bug is fixed.
-- Volker
Jack wrote:
You may want to take the minor edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_edit flag into account when determining the "at least five of the principal authors of the Document".
E.g. in the "USS Nautilus (SSN-571)" article in Tim Cruze's book "Big Science", "Furry" is listed as one of the principal authors, eventho user:Furry only made 2 minor edits on 2005-09-30 to the article (deleting a space and a full stop). user:The Epopt completely rewrote the article on 2004-01-05t23:52:26z, but is not listed as a principal author.
Ignoring edits that were reverted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RV would also improve the authors list.
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