This is so cool Felipe! Agreed there's a whole lot that can be done via JS. I know a few other wiki-maintainers who have used or continue to be interested in such tools; copying one :)
SJ On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 8:57 AM Felipe Schenone <scheno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! Today I coded a simple template that is able to generate something > like a book and prompt the user to print or download it. > See https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Template:Download_PDF for usage and > https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MediaWiki:TemplateScript-DownloadPDF.js > for the code. > As you can see, I put it on the English Wikiversity rather than the Basque > Wikipedia. This is because template scripts > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TemplateScripts> are not yet enabled on > the Basque Wikipedia. > If you see potential in this approach, you may want to write to your > community and have template scripts enabled there. Then you can copy-paste > the template and code and improve upon it. > I too miss the Collection extension, but it's been too long to hope for a > fix. Perhaps this approach holds more water, at least in the short/mid > term. There's quite a lot that can be done via JavaScript like this. > Cheers! > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 4:01 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < > galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> Some years ago, when we started the Education Program at the Basque >> Wikipedia, we used a lot the Book Creator (or Collections) extension. It >> allowed to bind some articles and download them in PDF or DOC/ODT formats >> for further editing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book). This >> was a great feature, as it allowed us to send the teachers and students a >> collection of articles they had created. The teacher could create free >> learning materials from the articles created by their students, and >> download them in DOC/ODT format allowed to edit them, rearrange and add >> other materials. Some teachers said us that they have created learning >> materials using Wikipedia articles created by their students. >> >> Anyway, in 2017 the Wikimedia Foundation decided to break the book >> creator, because there were some errors in the PDF creator. So they >> disabled the book creator and added a note saying that the system is >> "Undergoing changes". The message is still visible, but no changes are >> being done. (You can follow the last messages of redesigning the book >> creator here:https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175681). >> >> I know that this is not the most important feature that is broken. There >> are many other broken things. But creating materials for students, and >> being able to read them offline or edited by teachers is a feature that >> aligns with our mission and vision. As always happens, no one is >> accountable for having something broke for six years. And it doesn't seem >> that this feature will return in the future. At least, the PediaPress link >> is still working, but there you can't edit your book, only pay for have it >> printed. >> >> I think no one knows what will happen with this feature. I write this >> message simply to say that I miss it a lot. >> >> Thanks >> >> Galder Gonzalez >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/4SYP6PBBRPJUGKAJ6S4MMEPNJHMEI2A7/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3FSWVVHPBXENYOISFW2VFXR65YQ4PAS6/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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