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

[Samuel Klein]

Well, I think Shizhao is subscribed to this list :-)  but I cc: him
just in case.
This sounds like a reasonable request.  Can one of the developers
involved comment on the situation?

Ziyuan: can you post a link to the discussion on the chinese wikipedia
about whether to upgrade?

SJ

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Side question:
>>
>> Does Chinese Wikipedia indeed have an elected or consensus "leader" or
>> some sort?
>
> Dunno, but he seems to be the community organizer.
>
>>
>> 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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