Yesterday I started two discussion threads for this issue, one one the
Wikizh-l mailing list, the other on the zh.wikipedia Google Group
(both are official discussion lists for the Chinese Wikipedia):
Wikizh-l thread: (in Chinese)
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikizh-l/2012-March/000733.html
zh.wikipedia thread (in Chinese):
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/zh_wikipedia/5…
The two threads are still early in discussion, but commenters so far
support adopting the latest MediaWiki version, but they also pointed
out a bug that needs to be resolved (Chinese text should be converted
to either all-simplified or all-traditional before PDF creation):
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34919
Previously there was another bug (Chinese lines don't wrap
automatically) and it was resolved:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33430
From this resolved bug report you can find the relevant
developers of
MediaWiki's PDF creation feature (PediaPress).
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I think Shizhao is subscribed to this list :-)
but I cc: him
just in case.
This sounds like a reasonable request. Can one of the developers
involved comment on the situation?
Ziyuan: can you post a link to the discussion on the chinese wikipedia
about whether to upgrade?
SJ
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Pharos
<pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Side question:
Does Chinese Wikipedia indeed have an elected or consensus "leader" or
some sort?
Dunno, but he seems to be the community organizer.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I think you guys can all see how useful it would be if the Chinese
Wikipedia also has the ebook/PDF creation feature as seen on other
language Wikipedias. Some countries don't always let their people
visit Wikipedia, so ebooks can be an alternative.
We have tried to solve this bug that prevents the Chinese/Japanese
Wikipedias from having this feature:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33430
The relevant developers (PediaPress) have solved the bug to some
extent, but Shi Zhao, leader of the Chinese Wikipedia, still doesn't
think the resulting Chinese PDF files are good enough, so the Chinese
Wikipedia has not yet upgraded to the latest MediaWiki software to get
this feature.
My two suggestions:
(1) Persuade Shi Zhao to adopt the latest MediaWiki software, which
can generate ebook/PDFs for the Chinese Wikipedia, although the page
layout is not perfect.
(2) Or find another organization than PediaPress to provide this
feature, because PediaPress refuses to adopt a more Unicode-friendly
PDF code library that provides better Chinese PDF rendering.
Regards,
Ziyuan Yao
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