Extension:Collection

Overview
This extension makes it possible to collect a number of pages. Collections can be edited, persisted and optionally retrieved as PDF (adding ODF and XML in the near future).

See this press release Wikis Go Printable for more information on this project.

Generating PDFs
After a major refactoring this Extension is now really easy to install. It is configured by default to use the server http://tools.pediapress.com to generate PDFs. Therefore (low traffic) sites don't need to install their own PDF Server anymore.

Simply install and configure the Collection extension using the default value  http://tools.pediapress.com/cgi-bin/pdf-server.py  for $wgPDFServer (see README.txt of the Collection Extension for instructions).

No installation of Python, ReportLab, mwlib etc. required!

Documentation & Support
Further information can be found at code.pediapress.com

There is also a google group for support and discussion of mwlib, mwlib.rl and the Collection extension.

Source
The Collection extension is copyrighted by PediaPress GmbH and is distributed under the GNU General Public License (see the included README.txt for details).

Current sources can be obtained from the official MediaWiki Subversion repository found at http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/. You can checkout a copy right into the extensions directory of your MediaWiki installation with the following commands (after installing Subversion):

cd extensions/ svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Collection

Please read the included README.txt for further installation and configuration of the extension.

Additional Requirements
In order to have PDF generation working, you need to have the following packages installed:
 * mwlib
 * mwlib.rl (the PDF Generator)

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See also: http://wikieducator.org/Help:Collections

Related

 * Extension:PDF_Writer
 * Extension:XML_Bridge
 * Extension:OpenDocument_Export