Side question: Does Chinese Wikipedia indeed have an elected or consensus "leader" or some sort?
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
