At appropedia.org I developed a simple but effective JS script that:
1. Gathers all links in the current page 2. Transcludes them all though an API call 3. Replaces the content of the current page for the transcluded content 4. Calls window.print() so that the user can download or print the transcluded content 5. Restores the content of the original page
See https://www.appropedia.org/MediaWiki:Book.js for the script and https://www.appropedia.org/Solar_book for an example. We're quite happy with the script. Easy, simple, maintainable, versatile, etc. Maybe someone wants to adapt it to the Wikibooks use case?
El mar, 19 abr 2022 a la(s) 06:04, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga ( galder158@hotmail.com) escribió:
The problem is not that it was "Just one of the things that died out because no-one could be bothered to maintain it", it is worse: it was broken on purpose, and not recovered, because the WMF decided that no one cares about it.
You can read about the process here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186740
2022(e)ko api. 19(a) 09:00 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Peter Southwood < peter.southwood@telkomsa.net>):
I used to use it, but then it broke so I stopped using it. Just one of the things that died out because no-one could be bothered to maintain it. Cheers, Peter
*From:* Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga [mailto:galder158@hotmail.com] *Sent:* 17 April 2022 17:47 *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage
No one or very few use it, because you can't save a book. I had some teachers in our university courses who used it to download what their students did, but since the WMF decided to break it, evidently they are not using it anymore. I repeat: it worked and it was broken in purpose. So now we have an option to create a book but no actual book can be created, besides printing it with PediaPress.
2022(e)ko api. 17(a) 09:59 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du ("Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il):
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
The correct question is: does it still do anything of value?
בתאריך יום א׳, 17 באפר׳ 2022 ב-10:42 מאת Jan Ainali <
ainali.jan@gmail.com>:
Even with all output options broken it is still a decent user interface
for creating and organizing collections of articles.
This may well be true, but I'm wondering how much is it *actually* used. I know I never use it, but it's possible that thousand of other people do. If it's true, then everything is fine. I can't find a log of its usage, or a statistics page that shows how often do people use this feature.
It currently appears in at least two prominent places:
- "Create a book" link in the desktop sidebar (in some wikis; I don't see
it in the English Wikipedia, but I do see it in Swedish and Basque).
- "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Main" group in translatewiki.net,
which means that volunteer localizers are asked to translate it with (relatively) high priority.
If only, say, five people use it in the whole Wikimedia universe, then perhaps someone should consider downgrading its prominence or maybe removing it entirely.
On translatewiki, I can move it from "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Main" to "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Advanced" or even to "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Legacy", but again, before I do this, I'd like to make sure that it's not actually used by a lot of people.
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