[Foundation-l] Wikipedia's ebook and PDF creation feature doesn't support Chinese and Japanese

[Pharos]

Side question:

Does Chinese Wikipedia indeed have an elected or consensus "leader" or
some sort?

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think you guys can all see how useful it would be if the Chinese
> Wikipedia also has the ebook/PDF creation feature as seen on other
> language Wikipedias. Some countries don't always let their people
> visit Wikipedia, so ebooks can be an alternative.
>
> We have tried to solve this bug that prevents the Chinese/Japanese
> Wikipedias from having this feature:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33430
>
> The relevant developers (PediaPress) have solved the bug to some
> extent, but Shi Zhao, leader of the Chinese Wikipedia, still doesn't
> think the resulting Chinese PDF files are good enough, so the Chinese
> Wikipedia has not yet upgraded to the latest MediaWiki software to get
> this feature.
>
> My two suggestions:
> (1) Persuade Shi Zhao to adopt the latest MediaWiki software, which
> can generate ebook/PDFs for the Chinese Wikipedia, although the page
> layout is not perfect.
> (2) Or find another organization than PediaPress to provide this
> feature, because PediaPress refuses to adopt a more Unicode-friendly
> PDF code library that provides better Chinese PDF rendering.
>
> Regards,
> Ziyuan Yao
>
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