Hello, I am a bit confused... Why did this end up in the Wikiversity mailing list?

Looking at the WikiEducator web page, I do not find its exact relationship with the WM foundation, Wikiversity or other related projects? I can see it use MediaWiki and has some "political" support from other corners. So, why as a Wikiversity volunteer should I help, there? What am I missing?

Andreas =:-)

Erik Moeller wrote:

Hi -

for the last few days, we've been testing the new wiki-to-print functionality on WikiEducator.org. If you haven't already, give it a spin: if all goes well, this functionality will soon find its way into Wikimedia projects.

http://wikieducator.org/Help:Collections http://www.wikieducator.org/Help:Collections/Bug_reports http://code.pediapress.com/

Best, Erik

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On 12/22/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi -

for the last few days, we've been testing the new wiki-to-print functionality on WikiEducator.org. If you haven't already, give it a spin: if all goes well, this functionality will soon find its way into Wikimedia projects.

This is a great feature - thanks to all involved for making it possible. I especially like the ability to save collections both for yourself and for anyone else - this is really excellent. :-) Some comments on my brief trial so far...

All pages in a collection start directly after the other - is there any way of starting a new page from the wiki on a new page in the pdf (apart from using chapters)?

Creating chapters seemed to be hit and miss - I tried adding a chapter with different numbers of pages and in different places but it sometimes worked with one setup and not with another where the only differences were the individual pages I had selected - keeping structure constant. (When it "didn't work", I got an error message after trying to download the pdf file).

The attribution message at the end of the pdf file - and on the bottom of each page - is generic, and doesn't specify where the page is (at least to someone not familiar with page naming on a wiki). This might mean simply adding another line in the generic message about how to find the page (eg. "You can find the original page by adding each page's title after the http://wikieducator.org url" - hmm, I'm sure this could be phrased better).

Thinking ahead, if this extension were to be implemented on all WMF projects, and you could aggregate a collection from all WMF projects into one file, the attribution would be significantly more complex, so thought needs to be put into this hypothetical but very desirable possibility. :-)

Looking forward to seeing how this develops.

Cheers, Cormac