On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Side question: > > Does Chinese Wikipedia indeed have an elected or consensus "leader" or > some sort?
Dunno, but he seems to be the community organizer. > > 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
