Well, I think Shizhao is subscribed to this list :-) but I cc: him just in case. This sounds like a reasonable request. Can one of the developers involved comment on the situation?
Ziyuan: can you post a link to the discussion on the chinese wikipedia about whether to upgrade? SJ On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l