Hi, On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:
> oops, one more thing: It appears that for pages collected using the > bookmarklet, license information is not recorded or included. I don't > particularly want a copy of the GFDL any more than references, but a > notice to that effect would be nice. > > *looks at the API* > hm... bizarrely, I don't see the license info being one of the API > parameters. Did I miss it or is it a bug? assuming you are talking about the MediaWiki API. Yes this is a bug with MediaWiki. In our opinion, license management/handling should be a core feature of MediaWiki, because the software is explicitely developed for the collaborative generation of free content. But from the perspective of a re-user this is almost non-existent[1]. Heiko [1] http://markmail.org/message/cfshfwqse3gno372 > > > Brianna > > > 2009/1/29 Brianna Laugher <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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]." >> >> thanks, >> Brianna >> >> >> -- >> They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: >> http://modernthings.org/ >> > > > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Textbook-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l -- Heiko Hees / brainbot technologies AG Boppstrasse 64 / 55118 Mainz Fon +49 (0) 61 31 - 2 11 63 91 _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l
