Extension talk:Collection/2019
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Withdrawn functionality
[edit]OCG has been withdrawn. The only conversion functionality specified for its replacement is to PDF. Should the information given on this page be updated accordingly, or should it be left because the Collection extension remains theoretically capable of supporting it all? Steelpillow (talk) 11:09, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
en.wikipedia facility under discussion
[edit]There is a discussion here which is suggesting that the Wikipedia Books function be withdrawn. The RfC concerns user interface hooks to the collection extension and the discussion has broadened into the whole Books namespace and this software. You are invited to contribute.
I understand that PediaPress are, or were, heavily involved in maintaining this extension. Anybody who knows their full relationship with the WMF would also be more than welcome to give a clarification, as the upload link to their PoD service is also being criticised. Steelpillow (talk) 08:45, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for the heads up. I will try to clarify as much as I can. Ckepper (talk) 12:09, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Steelpillow, thanks for vouching for the Collection extension. It's a valuable tool for the wiki that I'm running (http://wikimedi.ca). Once we have the resources, we'll try and figure out a solution to get it back up and running.
- We're anxiously waiting for a new version of the Collection extension and we will happily devote some ressources maintaining and improving it . Tinss (talk) 18:01, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Tinss: The book rendering service is new, the collection extension will need only small updates to link to it.
- User:Ckepper at PediaPress is writing a new PDF renderer. I do not know if he will accept help, but you can ask. (His user page here seems very out of date).
- User:Dirk Hünniger maintains the MediaWiki2LaTeX renderer. It is available but needs some work, both on the software, which is written in an unusual language called Haskell, and on the service configuration. I think he will be glad of some proper help. Steelpillow (talk) 20:12, 23 September 2019 (UTC)