The collection extension is useful by more than just the PediaPress PDF
generator. There are other working tools for generating ebooks from
Wikisource content, and the Collection Extension's page lists is an
excellent way to collect content together for processing in order. The
only thing we are missing is a way to add metadata to the page list to
allow an ebook to be completely specified. While we could add metadata
by hand after the listing phase, that would get stomped on if the pages
are adjusted later.
In my mind, the page list phase and book generation phase are two
entirely separate things, and a standard list format with some sort of
standard metadata presentation would allow the Collection tool to
provide for any number of ebook-making efforts.
On 22/02/12 08:52, Ralf Schmitt wrote:
inductiveload<[email protected]> writes:
Hello!
I am from the English Wikisource, where the Collection extension could
be very useful for starting a curated eBook library. However, as there
is no way to add metadata such as "author" and "date", and perhaps
"licence", this means that generated eBooks cannot easily be sorted in
an eBook reader.
I propose some additional edit boxes in the book creator view, which
are then added to the {{Saved book}} template in order than the
appropriate micro-formats can be generated in the template, giving
enough information to add the metadata to the eBook.
Unless "Labeled Section Transclusion" functionality
(https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib/issues/5) is working with the
collection extension, I think it doesn't make sense to add further
functionality for wikisource projects.
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