PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name

List overview All Threads
Download

newer

older

Wikimania 2009: Call for...

Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)...

Brianna Laugher

28 Jan 2009 28 Jan '09

1:37 p.m.

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/

Show replies by date

Brianna Laugher

28 Jan 28 Jan

1:42 p.m.

New subject: PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name

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? Brianna 2009/1/29 Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>om>:

...

-- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

Heiko Hees

9:14 p.m.

New subject: PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name

Hi, On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:

...

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 <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>om>:

-- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org 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

Brianna Laugher

29 Jan 29 Jan

12:27 p.m.

New subject: PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name

(No need to forward my messages to mwlib anymore; I subscribed there and will write there if appropriate :)) 2009/1/29 Heiko Hees <heiko(a)pediapress.com>om>:

...

Hi, On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:

I see what you mean. I will reply in more detail to your post to wikitech-l. I meant a much more simple getting of the info that appears in the footer of MediaWikis which says the license or rights page. I made a patch to add that info to the API. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17224> Although putting the name & URL of the GFDL doesn't comply with it, it is definitely better than nothing (and for many licenses it is almost sufficient). But as I said I will reply on your other post. thanks, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

Brianna Laugher

19 Feb 19 Feb

2:22 a.m.

New subject: PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name

2009/1/29 Heiko Hees <heiko(a)pediapress.com>om>:

...

Hi, On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:

assuming you are talking about the MediaWiki API. Yes this is a bug with MediaWiki.

You can now find out the license of a wiki via the API :) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop… this still doesn't help with finding the license for files, or knowing what the requirements of the license are (eg fulltext, or authors), but at least it lets you put a link and the name of the license. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

Andrew Whitworth

28 Jan 28 Jan

2:39 p.m.

New subject: Fwd: PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name

I'm forwarding this email to the mwlib mailinglist. --Andrwew Whitworth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:37 AM Subject: [Textbook-l] PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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/ _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l

Heiko Hees

9:01 p.m.

New subject: PediaPress error with multiple pages with the same name

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

5560

days inactive

5582

days old

textbook-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Manage subscription

6 comments

3 participants

tags (0)

participants (3)

Andrew Whitworth
Brianna Laugher
Heiko Hees