[Wikisource-l] Output as ePub or Mobi?

After a question at English Wikisource Scriptorium about output of works as ePub, I sent the below email to Wikitech-L to which there were two responses. (After the first I had an IRC conversation accordingly) I logged this as a Bugzilla request. I suppose the two aspects I see are 1) there is some scope for the output as ePub, though exactly how and what we will not know until we can get it aboard and play 2) that there seems to be scope for actual real work on Extension:Collection. Where and when is unknown. I have also added it onto https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sources/wiki/WS:BUGS So such is promising. Two emails contained below. Regards Andrew ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Billinghurst" <billinghurst(a)gmail.com> To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date sent: Mon, 16 May 2011 21:05:28 +1000 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Output as ePub or Mobi? Is there anyone working on the output of work as EPUB or MOBI for the Mediawiki product? It is something that would sit well for the output of works from Wikisource. That technical side is well beyond me, so I thought it would be good to know if anyone is working on that avenue for output. Thanks. Regards Andrew ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> Date sent: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:18:36 +0200 On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: OP has filed a request for review of an EPub exporter extension found via mediawiki.org: BZ entry - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29023 I've taken a quick initial look and I think it should be feasible with fixes for smaller third-party sites -- so could probably be copied into our SVN for maintenance & distribution if there's no license or other major issues. For production Wikimedia use though I think we'd be happiest with integrating with the Collection / mwlib stuff, so it fits with our other export options and (most importantly) that method of building export sets. -- brion ------- End of forwarded message -------