[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Samuel Klein
A zim collection tool, hooked into / upgrading the current collections extension, would be the best of many worlds. S On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 2:23 PM Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: > Hi > > A few things I can share from openZIM/Kiwix perspective on this: > * This, special:book feature, was a good

[Wikimedia-l] Les sans pagEs annual report 2021

2022-04-17 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
[[ENGLISH]] Dear all, Here is the annual report of the sans pagEs user group In French (1) In English (2 Kind regards, Nattes à chat [[FRENCH]] Bonsoir, Voici le rapport annuel des sans pagEs pour 2021 en francais (1) et en anglais (2) Bien à vous, (1)

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Emmanuel Engelhart
Hi A few things I can share from openZIM/Kiwix perspective on this: * This, special:book feature, was a good tool 10 years ago * This would have deserved to be improved/maintained/developed over years * Today it looks abandoned and I hardly see how we could live a revival from the Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Strainu
Pe duminică, 17 aprilie 2022, Tito Dutta a scris: > Hello, > This was a very useful tool for the readers. I used it a lot when it was working. > User namespace books page category shows 50,000 subpages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_namespace_book_pages > (Please see language

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Tito Dutta
Hello, This was a very useful tool for the readers. I used it a lot when it was working. User namespace books page category shows 50,000 subpages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_namespace_book_pages (Please see language sidebar for other languages) Regards. রবি, ১৭ এপ্রিল, ২০২২

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
No one or very few use it, because you can't save a book. I had some teachers in our university courses who used it to download what their students did, but since the WMF decided to break it, evidently they are not using it anymore. I repeat: it worked and it was broken in purpose. So now we have

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu wrote: > > > > The correct question is: does it still do anything of value? > ‫בתאריך יום א׳, 17 באפר׳ 2022 ב-10:42 מאת ‪Jan Ainali‬‏ <‪ ainali@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ > > Even with all output options broken it is still a decent user interface for creating and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Jan Ainali
Even with all output options broken it is still a decent user interface for creating and organizing collections of articles. On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu wrote: > The correct question is: does it still do anything of value? > > Here is what I see on rowiki: Due to severe issues with our

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Strainu
The correct question is: does it still do anything of value? Here is what I see on rowiki: Due to severe issues with our existing system, the Book Creator will no longer support saving a book as a PDF. There is also a link to PediaPress which doesn't seem to work and I can't choose any output