[Wikisource-l] Output as ePub or Mobi?

[Billinghurst]

After a question at English Wikisource Scriptorium about output of 
works as ePub, I sent the below email to Wikitech-L to which there 
were two responses. (After the first I had an IRC conversation 
accordingly) I logged this as a Bugzilla request.  I suppose the two 
aspects I see are
1) there is some scope for the output as ePub, though exactly how and 
what we will not know until we can get it aboard and play
2) that there seems to be scope for actual real work on 
Extension:Collection. Where and when is unknown.

I have also added it onto 
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sources/wiki/WS:BUGS

So such is promising.  Two emails contained below.

Regards Andrew

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From:           	"Billinghurst" <billinghurst at gmail.com>
To:             	wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Date sent:      	Mon, 16 May 2011 21:05:28 +1000
Subject:        	[Wikitech-l] Output as ePub or Mobi?

Is there anyone working on the output of work as EPUB or MOBI for the 
Mediawiki product?  It is something that would sit well for the 
output of works from Wikisource. That technical side is well beyond 
me, so I thought it would be good to know if anyone is working on 
that avenue for output.  

Thanks. Regards Andrew

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From:           	Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com>
Date sent:      	Tue, 17 May 2011 15:18:36 +0200


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc at wikimedia.org> 
wrote:

> I'm having some discussions about adding it to the Books collection
> extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection).
>
> Will update as I have more info.
>

OP has filed a request for review of an EPub exporter extension found 
via mediawiki.org: BZ entry -
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29023

I've taken a quick initial look and I think it should be feasible 
with fixes for smaller third-party sites -- so could probably be 
copied into our SVN for maintenance & distribution if there's no 
license or other major issues.  

For production Wikimedia use though I think we'd be happiest with 
integrating with the Collection / mwlib stuff, so it fits with our 
other export options and (most importantly) that method of building 
export sets.  

-- brion
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