[Foundation-l] Printed on Demand Books from Wikipedia articles

[James Hare]

Yes. And why doesn't Wikipedia get DPLs? They could prove useful for us --
they're not just for automagically displaying news articles on Wikinews.

On 7/18/06, Ben Yates <bluephonic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One major usability issue is that articles directly in a category are
> added when the category is added, but not articles within
> subcategories.  This can lead to some strange results.
>
> On 7/13/06, Volker Haas <volker.haas at brainbot.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jack,
> > thanks for your comment about the principle author list. We try to
> > improve that.
> > Sorry for the inconvenience with the contact form - that bug is fixed.
> >
> > -- Volker
> >
> > Jack wrote:
> > > You may want to take the minor edit
> > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_edit> flag into account when
> > > determining the "at least five of the principal authors of the
> > > Document".
> > >
> > > E.g. in the "USS Nautilus (SSN-571)" article in Tim Cruze's book "Big
> > > Science", "Furry" is listed as one of the principal authors, eventho
> > > user:Furry only made 2 minor edits on 2005-09-30 to the article
> > > (deleting a space and a full stop). user:The Epopt completely rewrote
> > > the article on 2004-01-05t23:52:26z, but is not listed as a principal
> > > author.
> > >
> > > Ignoring edits that were reverted <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RV>
> > > would also improve the authors list.
> > >
> > > The contact form at <http://pediapress.com/contact/> is reporting "500
> > > - Internal Server Error" on send.
> > >
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