I like the idea of finishing the development of BookManager2, it is a pity that the code was not reviewed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BookManagerv2
Cheers, Micru
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
I made a draft on a proposal here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_ Survey/Categories/Wikisource#Make_Wikisource_.22book-based.22
Please edit, it's a draft and I think it's a problem many of us know from a long time.
The idea is that, if we had a system for MediaWiki to know what a book is, we could
- better metadata management system, thus a better integration with
Wikidata
- we could develop better tools, for example create automatic Indexes and
navigation templates, which would maybe enable us to "import" EPUBs directly on Wikisource
- have a better workflow, making it easier to new users to use us
- have even better statistics and analytics: which are the *books* (not
the pages!) which are read o WIkisource?
etc.
IMHO, the Community Wishlist is a great opportunity to push for a systemic development of Wikisource: I'm convinced we don't need little tools here and there, but a systematic overview of what Wikisource framework, workflows and software. I'm open to discuss the merging of different proposals in the Wishlist.
Aubrey
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