On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:23, Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 13 August 2010 10:27, Lars Aronsson
<lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
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If we applied this web 2.0 principle to Wikibooks
and Wikisource,
we wouldn't need to have pages with previous/next links. We could
just have smooth, continuous scrolling in one long sequence. Readers
could still arrive at a given coordinate (chapter or page), but
continue from there in any direction.
Examples of such user interfaces for books are Google Books and the
Internet Archive online reader. You can link to page 14 like this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Z_ZLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14
and then scroll up (to page 13) or down (to page 15). The whole
book is never in your browser. New pages are AJAX loaded as they
are needed.
You are not thinking "web" here.
The "web" way to solve a problem like easy access to "next page" or
"different chapters" is to have a "next page" link or have all the
chapters as tabs, or something like that. Make the wiki aware of the
structure of a book, and make it render these nextpage link / chapters
tabs.
Well, "to make the wiki aware of the structure of a book" is essentially
what is requested in bug 15071 [1], which is open since 2008 and blocking 6
other requests which would solve Wikisource/Wikibooks (but non-Wikipedia)
specific issues...
Helder
[1] Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071