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