Submissions/Wikis In Print 2010

This is an open submission for Wikimania 2010.

Title of the submission: Wikis In Print 2010
Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation): Presentation
Author of the submission: Heiko Hees
Username

He!ko

Country of origin

Germany

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)

pediapress.com

Personal homepage or blog

http://pediapress.com

Abstract

This presentation updates on last years presentation about the state of the Book Tool. In the meantime the tool was deployed on all major language versions of Wikipedia - including the English Wikipedia lately. The talk starts with a short introduction to the tool and briefly summarizes the improvements that happened during the last year, like the GUI-update, the suggestion tool, custom covers, addition of a 'Book:'-Namespace, etc. It will further give some insight on community and visitor adoption of the tool, backed by statistics. The focus of the presentation will be on upcoming developments like cross-wiki collections, a way to patch articles w/o modifying them to be more suitable to books, another remake of the UI and the catalog.

Note: Please write me if you are missing any interesting aspect in the outline and I'll happily add it.

Outline of the presentation

Wikis in Print 2010

Basics

Background of the project

Displaying of real printed books

Short live demo

Improvements during the last year

New UI

Suggestion tool

Custom covers

'Book:'-Namespace

Adoption of the tool

Within Wikipedia (Statistics and Examples): PDF downloads; Saved books; Community books
In other Wikis: Wikibooks; Wikisource; Other Wikis

Upcoming features

Mixing and Mashing without Limits: Cross Wiki Collections; Article overlays to omit/replace/rewrite sections
More output options: openZIM; EPub; Color Books; Hardcover Books; Publishing books (ISBNs & Co)
Other imporvements: RtL language support; Improved UI (Mockups); Remake of the catalog (Mockups)

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Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure): Infrastructure
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