Really Great work !!!!!!!!!!!!! On 9/2/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Textbook-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Textbook-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Experimental Wikibooks Importer (adam hyde) > 2. Re: Experimental Wikibooks Importer (Aaron Adrignola) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:57:05 +0200 > From: adam hyde <[email protected]> > Subject: [Textbook-l] Experimental Wikibooks Importer > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <1283417825.1641.10.ca...@esetera> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > hi, > > Thought the list might be interested in this: > http://blog.booki.cc/?p=141 > > "Experimental Wikibooks Importing > Jan Gerber, a friend of Booki and a great programmer (author of > FFMPEG2Theora and other essential tools) wrote a extension to Booki to > import books from the Wikimedia Foundation project Wikibooks. There is > information about how to import Wikibooks into Booki in the Booki User > Guide. > > Wikibooks has been around for a long time and has been compiling > collections of free books. We thought it would be interesting to see if > its possible to automate the import of these books into Booki. Doing > this would open up the export possibilities for the content in > Wikibooks. it would be possible, for example, for wikibooks to be > exported into ePub, Book formatted PDF, ODT etc through Booki. > > Jan developed the code to do this and it works pretty well. We have a > few issues to work out with it and some interesting ideas on how to > extend this. Mike Linksvlayer suggested: > > ?as I?m writing this it occurs to me that it would be fairly > simple to create a supplement for the book mostly or even > entirely consisting of a collection of relevant Wikipedia > articles ? see examples of such books created using PediaPress; > another approach would be to add a feature to Booki (the > software used to create Collaborative Futures) to facilitate > importing chapters from Wikipedia.? > http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2010/08/26/collaborative-futures-org/ > > > Good idea! We liked it so much we added it to our development to-dos. If > you are interested in hacking away at this feature, perhaps using the > work that Jan has already done to get you started then please let us > know!" > > > > > > adam > > > -- > Adam Hyde > Founder FLOSS Manuals & > Booki Project Manager > > Contact Information > German mobile : + 49 177 4935122 > Email : [email protected] > irc : irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals > > > "Free manuals for free software" > http://www.flossmanuals.net/about > > Free Software for making Free Books > http://www.booki.cc/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:57:26 -0500 > From: Aaron Adrignola <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] Experimental Wikibooks Importer > To: [email protected], Wikimedia textbook discussion > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > The Collections extension at Wikibooks will allow for exporting books to PDF > and ODT formats right now, however. Maybe they could expand it to include > ePub as well. > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Book > > -Adrignola > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:57 AM, adam hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wikibooks has been around for a long time and has been compiling >> collections of free books. We thought it would be interesting to see if >> its possible to automate the import of these books into Booki. Doing >> this would open up the export possibilities for the content in >> Wikibooks. it would be possible, for example, for wikibooks to be >> exported into ePub, Book formatted PDF, ODT etc through Booki. >> > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Textbook-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l > > > End of Textbook-l Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1 > ***************************************** >
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