I used to use it, but then it broke so I stopped using it. Just one of the 
things that died out because no-one could be bothered to maintain it.  Cheers, 
Peter

 

From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga [mailto:galder...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: 17 April 2022 17:47
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

 

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.


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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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