Hi Anne,
Thank you for the confirmation.
I've got a question both for you and for the wikisourcerers, do we want and should we keep using WSexport or should we try to integrate WSexport functionalities into more general tool? (for the second option, we need to exchange about our specific needs and desires).
My point of view is that we are quite happy with WSexport right now so we could say « if it ain't broken don't fix it » but on the other hand the maintain a specific tool tailored for our specifities but it could be useful for others and there is always the risk that nobody maintain it anymore (a more general tool generally - but not always - having more chances of being maintain). I'd like to hear you point of view and the point of view of people maintaining WSexport (mainly our beloved wikisourcerer supreme Tpt ;) )
Cdlt, ~nicolas
Nicolas VIGNERON, 11/10/2017 20:32:
should we try to integrate WSexport functionalities into more general tool? (for the second option, we need to exchange about our specific needs and desires).
This was already done with mwlib for ZIM and EPUB, but then WMF trashed it. Three years ago we were told "ePUB and ZIM are likely to return", now how much do you believe PDFs will ever work again? https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/00... https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97672 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73660
The Italian Wikisource users have used PDF exports nonetheless for a few things, although they are not as useful as the ZIM exports. Please don't rely on assumptions about uselessness of something for you to decide that it's fine to make that something worse.
Federico
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