On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:23, Tei <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 August 2010 10:27, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > If we applied this web 2.0 principle to Wikibooks and Wikisource, > > we wouldn't need to have pages with previous/next links. We could > > just have smooth, continuous scrolling in one long sequence. Readers > > could still arrive at a given coordinate (chapter or page), but > > continue from there in any direction. > > > > Examples of such user interfaces for books are Google Books and the > > Internet Archive online reader. You can link to page 14 like this: > > http://books.google.com/books?id=Z_ZLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14 > > and then scroll up (to page 13) or down (to page 15). The whole > > book is never in your browser. New pages are AJAX loaded as they > > are needed. > > You are not thinking "web" here. > > The "web" way to solve a problem like easy access to "next page" or > "different chapters" is to have a "next page" link or have all the > chapters as tabs, or something like that. Make the wiki aware of the > structure of a book, and make it render these nextpage link / chapters > tabs. >
Well, "to make the wiki aware of the structure of a book" is essentially what is requested in bug 15071 [1], which is open since 2008 and blocking 6 other requests which would solve Wikisource/Wikibooks (but non-Wikipedia) specific issues... Helder [1] Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
