[Foundation-l] Printed on Demand Books from Wikipedia articles

Wed Jul 19 08:58:00 UTC 2006

I believe that adding all articles in a category and also in all 
subcategories would result in many unwanted articles in the book. By 
carefully selecting a category with only a few subcategories this 
problem could be avoided, but I believe in most cases adding 
subcategories as well has undesired effects.

By using the "suggested articles" button on the build page you should 
ideally get the "best" articles in the subcategories as well (after you 
added some articles you want in your book). I am aware that currently it 
is not possible to add all suggested articles - we are thinking about 
adding this functionality.

-- Volker

Since many categories have lots of articles assigned to them and also

Ben Yates wrote:
> One major usability issue is that articles directly in a category are
> added when the category is added, but not articles within
> subcategories.  This can lead to some strange results.
>
> On 7/13/06, Volker Haas <volker.haas at brainbot.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Jack,
>> thanks for your comment about the principle author list. We try to
>> improve that.
>> Sorry for the inconvenience with the contact form - that bug is fixed.
>>
>> -- Volker
>>
>> Jack wrote:
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>>> You may want to take the minor edit
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_edit> flag into account when
>>> determining the "at least five of the principal authors of the
>>> Document".
>>>
>>> E.g. in the "USS Nautilus (SSN-571)" article in Tim Cruze's book "Big
>>> Science", "Furry" is listed as one of the principal authors, eventho
>>> user:Furry only made 2 minor edits on 2005-09-30 to the article
>>> (deleting a space and a full stop). user:The Epopt completely rewrote
>>> the article on 2004-01-05t23:52:26z, but is not listed as a principal
>>> author.
>>>
>>> Ignoring edits that were reverted <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RV>
>>> would also improve the authors list.
>>>
>>> The contact form at <http://pediapress.com/contact/> is reporting "500
>>> - Internal Server Error" on send.
>>>
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