[Textbook-l] Wiki-to-print and ODT now live in all Wikibooks editions

Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm
Fri Oct 24 01:25:06 UTC 2008


yayyyyyyyyyyy!

I'm sure I will have something more constructive once I have some time
to try this out on production wikis.

-Mike



On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:21:37 -0700, "Erik Moeller" <erik at wikimedia.org>
said:
> The PediaPress technology is now running in all Wikibooks languages.
> We have also gone ahead and enabled ODT support, so you can export
> collections to edit them in a word processor.
> 
> The help is currently available in English and German:
> 
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Collections
> http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Hilfe:Sammlungen
> 
> Help with translating it is appreciated; I've also posted a notice to
> translators-l to this effect.
> 
> I've created an English example collection:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/Collections/Blended_Learning
> 
> To get a PDF, ODT or to order a printed copy of that demo, go here:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Collection/load_collection/?colltitle=User:Eloquence/Collections/Blended_Learning
> 
> To report bugs, please visit:
> http://code.pediapress.com/
> 
> create an account, and create a "new ticket". The PP team is very
> responsive & helpful. :-)
> 
> Known issues:
> 
> * Licensing info isn't perfect. This is a tricky one because proper
> attribution of collaborative works is generally non-trivial, but we're
> working together on improving it.
> * There are non-internationalizable strings in the PDF output. The
> PediaPress team is working with translatewiki.net to sort this out.
> * ODT support is still experimental, so please give lots of feedback
> on brokenness.
> -- 
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
> 
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