Hello,
This was a very useful tool for the readers. I used it a lot when it was
working.
User namespace books page category shows 50,000 subpages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_namespace_book_pages
(Please see language sidebar for other languages)
Regards.
রবি, ১৭ এপ্রিল, ২০২২ তারিখে ৯:১৮ PM টায় তারিখে Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> লিখেছেন:
> No one or very few use it, because you can't save a book. I had some
> teachers in our university courses who used it to download what their
> students did, but since the WMF decided to break it, evidently they are not
> using it anymore. I repeat: it worked and it was broken in purpose. So now
> we have an option to create a book but no actual book can be created,
> besides printing it with PediaPress.
>
> 2022(e)ko api. 17(a) 09:59 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du ("Amir E. Aharoni"
> <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>):
>
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The correct question is: does it still do anything of value?
> > בתאריך יום א׳, 17 באפר׳ 2022 ב-10:42 מאת Jan Ainali <
> ainali....@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Even with all output options broken it is still a decent user interface
> for creating and organizing collections of articles.
>
> This may well be true, but I'm wondering how much is it *actually* used. I
> know I never use it, but it's possible that thousand of other people do. If
> it's true, then everything is fine. I can't find a log of its usage, or a
> statistics page that shows how often do people use this feature.
>
> It currently appears in at least two prominent places:
> 1. "Create a book" link in the desktop sidebar (in some wikis; I don't see
> it in the English Wikipedia, but I do see it in Swedish and Basque).
> 2. "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Main" group in translatewiki.net,
> which means that volunteer localizers are asked to translate it with
> (relatively) high priority.
>
> If only, say, five people use it in the whole Wikimedia universe, then
> perhaps someone should consider downgrading its prominence or maybe
> removing it entirely.
>
> On translatewiki, I can move it from "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Main"
> to "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Advanced" or even to "Extensions used by
> Wikimedia - Legacy", but again, before I do this, I'd like to make sure
> that it's not actually used by a lot of people.
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> “We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
>
>
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