Thanks for the reports - especially to Robert & Wayne for the detailed
feedback. This is what I've sent to PediaPress for now.

I think the main priority should be to make the thing more tolerant,
so that we always get _some_ output, even if it's not ideal.

Cheers,
Erik

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From: Erik Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 6, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: Open issues in wiki-to-print functionality


Heiko,

(writing in English so I can CC Brion :-)

the following issues probably should be addressed before we can start
using the wiki-to-print functionality on WMF projects. Brion will
weigh in with additional comments & concerns as he reviews the code.

* PRIORITY HIGH: When the parser dies, the user should get a more
friendly message, explaining the beta status of the code, what issues
are most likely to cause problems, etc.

* Is it possible to turn off logging & temp files? It might be good to
have an explicit &debug=true URL switch for admins to get log
information through the web. Of course, if we can reliably cache
generated PDFs, we should figure out a way to do so.

* PRIORITY HIGH: The more tolerant we can make the code towards stuff
it can't handle, the better. It's much better for us to spit out a PDF
that ignores HTML / stylesheets in the wiki-code than to throw an
error message.

* The <gallery> tag is not supported. It's used on quite a few WP
pages - would it be hard to make it work?

* Images without an alignment parameter seem to be resized to be
fairly huge. See
http://www.wikieducator.org/Using_Audacity/The_Interface as an
example.

* PRIORITY MEDIUM: There are some issues with clearing collections.
I've forwarded you separate mails about this.

Thanks,
Erik

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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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