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
I'm having some discussions about adding it to the Books collection extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection).
Will update as I have more info.
--tomasz
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Billinghurst billinghurst@gmail.com wrote:
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
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Billinghurst billinghurst@gmail.com wrote:
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
Have you already checked out & asked https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l ? They might know/have relevant opinions.
-Sumana Harihareswara
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm having some discussions about adding it to the Books collection extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection).
Will update as I have more info.
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
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
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.
We should talk to the devs first and see if they will be willing to move the ext into our svn first so we don't end up with forks and such and only do only forks if its absolutely needed.
I also cannot comment about the technical side but at wikibooks we also get periodic request asking if/when/how to export to EPUB. I suppose that is not surprising given both WS and WB deal with books and people want to download them to their kindle, or kindle like devices.
--Nick
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:21 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
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.
We should talk to the devs first and see if they will be willing to move the ext into our svn first so we don't end up with forks and such and only do only forks if its absolutely needed.
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