Hi, On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote: > I'm not sure where to post this, but I'm pretty sure if I put it here > someone from PediaPress will probably read it.
yes :) > I just found out about the PediaPress bookmarklet "create a collection > from any MediaWiki" thing and I thought I would try it. I added the > "Melbourne" article from en.wikipedia, wikitravel and Wikimedia > Commons, as well as an article called "Street press" from somewhere > else. When I downloaded the PDF, it contained 3 copies of the > en.wikipedia "Melbourne" article and the "Street press" article. So I > guess there is some bug with multiple articles from different sources > that happen to have the same name. Yes this is a bug. The feature[1] is rather prototypish. If one wants to implement this correctly much more work is involved, especially to get licence handling right. > > Secondly, this is not a bug but a feature request: en.wikipedia in > particular produces an awful amount of crud that is not that useful > for printing: references, external links etc. For the [[Melbourne]] > article, there are 22 pages of beautiful text and images, and no less > than 11 1/2 pages of crud, mostly consisting of 184 references. Would > it be possible to have an option to exclude references? Maybe replace > them all with a note like "To see original references, please visit > [url]." Good idea! I'll add it on the "customization of PDF-output"-wishlist[2]. Heiko [1] http://pediapress.com/collection/ [2] http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/419#comment:1 _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l
