Hi,
I could generate PDF versions of all community maintained books in the English Wikipedia and store them in a cloud accessible with sftp. I could update each PDF once a year. We could link form the book template to the cloud with lua. Are you interested?
Yours Dirk
So, I started a minimal setup now, 5 years old dual core laptop next to my fridge, with one process at a time. The first three resulting pdfs are available here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17g5Ey6jauKd3CLMDNBOnV3RYKcJN0QZu?usp=sharing . I need about 1 hour per pdf and each has got a size of 20 MByte on average. Since I got roughly 6000 pdf to make. This will take about 250 days an use about 120 GByte of disk space.
I think the computer is not so much of a problem at the moment. I can afford the necessary hardware and I am quite happy if I don't have to do more paperwork. But what I actually think I need is a community decision on the English Wikipedia that says that I can run a bot to upload the pdfs on the English Wikipedia. I started the discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab) . I think the 20 PDF files I generated up to now are enough to come to a decision on that.
