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All stored books on LIMSwiki can be found via LIMSWiki:Books.
Yes, the book tool is based on the open source project mwlib. The MediaWiki Collection extension works out of the box with most MediaWiki installations as well as the PediaPress service.
If you're not an administrator and need your book deleted, you can simply request deletion by placing {{Db-speedy}} on top of the book's page. You MUST include a reason, however, for the deletion using the |rationale=
parameter.
The ID of the <div> element is p-coll-create_a_book
(in all languages). To hide the box, insert the following text into MediaWiki:MonoBook.css:
#p-coll-create_a_book { display: none; }
Books have no scroll bars, while a browser does, so printed content needs to be split up on several pages. To get an acceptable typesetting result, some page elements need to be displayed differently. This may result in some unexpected layouts, especially for tables and parts of wiki articles that use HTML instead of MediaWiki markup.
You can edit the wiki articles themselves to make them print better. See the advanced help section for some ideas.
1) Click on "Order as a printed book" | 2) Book gets loaded by PediaPress | 3) Choose country, get price |
4) View preview | 5) Add to cart | 6) Enter shipping and billing information |
Printed books can be ordered through PediaPress.
Simply click on "Preview with PediaPress" on the Special:Book page. This uploads your book to the PediaPress website.
After choosing the destination country, an approximate number of pages and the price are shown. Title, subtitle, and editor can be set or changed here. There is a preview which shows how your selected articles (only the first N pages) will look like in a printed book. (Note: The typesetting of printed books differs from downloadable PDFs, since the page size is A5, not A4, and it includes additional features like a table of contents, index, etc.)
At this point, your book can be ordered by adding it to the cart and checking out. Available payment methods are MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal. Books are printed within two to three business days.
PediaPress uses the TeX typesetting system to generate a digital pre-press reproduction. Books are printed on demand either in the U.K. or the U.S. Books produced by this technique look just like conventional paperback books.
Book specification:
There is an example book (PDF) which shows how printed books are typeset.
number of pages | price |
---|---|
100 | €8 |
200 | €11 |
300 | €14 |
400 | €17 |
500 | €20 |
600 | €23 |
700 | €26 |
Pricing for printed books depends on the number of included pages (see table) as well as type of binding and colors chosen. To get a detailed quote, simply upload your book to PediaPress and select your country and currency.
The Wikimedia Foundation receives 10% of the sale price of each book.
Books are shipped using a standard shipping option to most countries in the world. Shipping takes one to fourteen days depending on the shipping option you select. Consult the PediaPress Shipping FAQ for more information.
pediapress.com is an online service which offers customized printed books from wiki content. The web-to-print service works on any MediaWiki which has deployed the open source Collection extension. The company actively supports the MediaWiki community and established a long-term partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation. The company was founded in 2007 and is located in Mainz, Germany. For more information see http://pediapress.com/about/.
The tool currently only works with the "Monobook" and "Modern" skins. There is a simple workaround: switch to Monobook when creating books.
Currently books can not contain more than 500 articles. Please keep in mind that generation of large PDFs can take a long time and results in high server load. Dividing article collections into multiple volumes might be a solution.
Printed books currently support no more than 800 pages.
Infoboxes and other large tables are printed at full page size, not "floated" to the side as on the wiki. This is a result of the limited size of A5 paper: if the infobox were shrunk to fit, the text within would be illegible.
CSS and HTML used in the wiki markup are only partially evaluated when generating PDFs. Templates can be adjusted for print to avoid some of the problems, see the advanced help section for details.
Due to technical limitations Math tags are rendered as raster images and not in print-quality.
Bugs, feature requests, and questions are best reported at the Help:Books/Feedback page.