Hi All, I think you guys can all see how useful it would be if the Chinese Wikipedia also has the ebook/PDF creation feature as seen on other language Wikipedias. Some countries don't always let their people visit Wikipedia, so ebooks can be an alternative.
We have tried to solve this bug that prevents the Chinese/Japanese Wikipedias from having this feature: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33430 The relevant developers (PediaPress) have solved the bug to some extent, but Shi Zhao, leader of the Chinese Wikipedia, still doesn't think the resulting Chinese PDF files are good enough, so the Chinese Wikipedia has not yet upgraded to the latest MediaWiki software to get this feature. My two suggestions: (1) Persuade Shi Zhao to adopt the latest MediaWiki software, which can generate ebook/PDFs for the Chinese Wikipedia, although the page layout is not perfect. (2) Or find another organization than PediaPress to provide this feature, because PediaPress refuses to adopt a more Unicode-friendly PDF code library that provides better Chinese PDF rendering. Regards, Ziyuan Yao _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
