User:Steelpillow/Wikipedia Books

Aiming to try and build some Books via [ Book creator].

My books

 * User:Steelpillow/Wikipedia Books/Test Book. (Formerly User:Steelpillow/Books/Test Book and User:Steelpillow/Wikippedia Books/Test Book.)
 * User:Steelpillow/Wikipedia Books/Aircraft wing configurations: An overview.
 * User:Steelpillow/Wikipedia Books/Strap It On Your Back: The Supermarine Spitfire Family.
 * User:Steelpillow/Wikipedia Books/Wings of Hamburg: Aircraft of Blohm & Voss and the HFB.

Aircraft wing configurations
Built around the article on Wing configurations. Ideally, directly via Category:Wing configurations.


 * Track Wing configuration and Category:Wing configurations links for possible updates. When rebuilding, it is safest to go ground-up from Category:Wing configurations. Tidy TOC entries to add chapter headings, remove brackets, etc.


 * Preface to PediaPress edition

Books about aircraft design tend to be either very simple and full of pictures or deeply technical and full of equations. Few show you how the basic needs of flight can be turned into a multitude of different forms for different purposes, or why some of these shapes are chosen over others.

The defining aspect of any aeroplane in flight is its wing configuration. This book begins with Wikipedia's overview of the subject, followed by chapters on all the themes and variations for which articles are available. It should give you some idea of why different aircraft look the way they do, and why some shapes are more common than others.

Because Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, a great many editors have contributed to these pages. My main contributions have been to donate the drawings used in the initial overview and to bring together everybody else's work in this book.

Guy Inchbald

[date]

Wings of Hamburg (Blohm & Voss)

 * For any other rendering tool:
 * Try renaming it Wings from Hamburg, to see if it still messes up the PDF cover title (works OK for PediaPress).


 * Cover illustrations

This book is a collection of articles from Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. As such, although I have contributed much to them, many other editors have also helped.
 * Preface to PediaPress edition

All the aircraft designed and built are described, together with the more significant design projects for which reliable information can be found. But many minor design studies and proposals were not notable enough to include in the encyclopedia, so can not be described here. Similarly, background information on the company is provided where it can be.

The most important source for these articles has undoubtedly been Hermann Pohlmann's "Chronik Eines Flugzeugwerkes 1932-1945", Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 2nd Impression, 1982 (in German).

The cover illustration shows a Lufthansa Ha 139 transatlantic mail plane being launched from a ship at sea.

Guy Inchbald

12 April 2018

Strap It On Your Back (Spitfires)
Just check for new articles from time to time.

History of Flight
Built broadly around Template:History of aviation.

Checkout for bits to add to the articles below:
 * History of military ballooning
 * History of unmanned aerial vehicles
 * Jet Age


 * Notional contents to date: Try with no chapter headings and see what it looks like in PDF (once available again)
 * Overview
 * Early flight
 * Claims to the first powered flight
 * The pioneer era
 * World War I
 * The interwar years
 * World War II
 * The postwar era
 * The digital age

Aircraft design configurations
A book on Aircraft design configuration(s) or Classes of aircraft, built around Category:Aircraft configurations.

First step is a summary article - but how to give it a notable tale to tell?

Problems include:
 * Horizontal-axis rotor classes naming and taxonomy.
 * Blimp fanboys.
 * Overlap with wing configurations.

Summary of components

 * Collection extension (aka Book Creator), on Mediawiki.
 * PDF Functionality on Mediawiki: also the Talk page.
 * Book renderer Collector PediaPress test server.
 * MediaWiki namespace:
 * See Help:MediaWiki namespace
 * "The MediaWiki namespace is a namespace containing the text to be displayed in certain places in the interface. Only administrators and interface editors can edit pages in this namespace, but all editors can propose changes on appropriate talk pages."
 * Cyberbot 1/NoomBot, maintains Book reports on the book talk pages.

Book Creator
The main sidebar link "Create a book" opens https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator

Within the page: (Note that this is the MediaWiki: namespace which replicates across both this and the mediawiki.org wiki)
 * The "Due to severe issues with our existing system, the Book Creator will no longer support saving a book as a PDF for a short period of time. We are working hard to replace our system and re-enable PDFs within the Book Creator" message is maintained at MediaWiki:Coll-warning-disable-pdf-text
 * The "Learn more" legend is maintained at MediaWiki:coll-warning-learn-more. The link to Reading/Web/PDF Functionality is hardcoded.
 * the "With the book creator you can create a book containing wiki pages of your choice. You can export the book in different formats (for example PDF or ODF) or order a printed copy." message is maintained at MediaWiki:Coll-book creator intro.

Miscellaneous

 * Category:Wikipedia book tool
 * Template:Bookcreatorstatus:

Wikipedia namespace
(probably incomplete)
 * wp:Books
 * wp:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books
 * wp:Offline Content Generator - redirect elsewhere
 * wp:Collections
 * wp:
 * wp:

Help pages

 * Single pages
 * Help:Printing
 * Help:Download as PDF


 * Book collections
 * Help:Books
 * Help:Books/Book creator text
 * Help:Books/FAQ
 * Help:Books/Frequently Asked Questions (redirect)
 * Help:Books/Feedback
 * Help:Books/License
 * Help:Books/PediaPress PDF rendering
 * Help:Books/PediaPress order information
 * Help:Books/Printed books
 * Help:Books/Rendering page info text
 * Help:Books/for experts
 * Help:Books/for expert (redirect)

Templates
Tailor the printed content using Template:Print version.

Style the cover using Template:Saved book. A cover image and colours can be manually set (see also Help:Books/for experts), although at present these are only implemented in the book's Wikipedia page. They are not picked up by PediaPress.

Link sidebox:
 * Template:Wikipedia books
 * [Note that Template:Wikibooks links to a different, dedicated wiki]

Other links:
 * Template:Wikibooks-inline
 * Template:Wikibooks redirect

Misc stuff:

Category:Wikibooks link templates Category:Wikibooks templates Category:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books Category:Internal link templates

Category:Wikipedia book tool

Category:Exclude in print

Template:Hide in print Template:Noprint Template:Only in print Template:Print version Template:Print version/web

Template:PediaPressTicket

MediaWiki2LaTeX
Softcopy conversion pull service, created by Dirk Hünniger.

Links

 * Hosted by wmflabs. They inc. Dirk's contact details and useful links.
 * Most books: http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/
 * Very large books: http://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org/
 * User manual: http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf/manual
 * Dirk's user talk page on Wikibooks: https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Dirk_Hünniger
 * Dirk's MediaWiki2LaTeX talk page on Wikibooks: https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf/manual
 * MediaWiki2LaTeX Requests page on Wkibooks: https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf/Requests
 * User manual adapted for Edutech wiki: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Mediawiki2latex

Options

 * Template expansion: Print, BookMode, Mediawiki, Normal.
 * Image formats: Vector-to-bitmap conversion option.
 * File formats: PDF, LaTeX zip, ePub (x/html via HTML-to-Calibre), ODT (via HTML-to-LibreOffice).
 * Page formats: A4, A5, B5, US Letter, Legal, Executive.

Issues/suggestions

 * Book rendering:
 * No Chapter headings or custom article titles.
 * Categories should not be included (although in-page text legends for links marked up as  with an opening colon  should be included.
 * Templated Infoboxes, which are displayed small on the page, are best processed and included but kept no wider than a single page.
 * Navigation templates should be dropped and not rendered at all.
 * Web interface:
 * "To compile MediaWiki pages via LaTeX to PDF choose any URL from Wikibooks or any other website running MediaWiki. If you intent to compile a wikibook make sure you use the link to the printable version of the book." to read, "To build a softcopy from MediaWiki content (such as Wikipedia or Wikibooks), enter the full web URL of the book page. For a Wikibook, ensure it is the link to the printable version of the book."
 * Either "Wikibooks" to link to https://www.wikibooks.org/ and not to https://en.wikipedia.org or, if this is wrong, then the legend should read "Wikipedia Books" and link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Books
 * "URL to the Wiki to be converted" to read, "Full web URL of the book page."
 * Move the Output Format selector below the template option and page size selectors. In the selector:
 * "Complied PDF" to read "PDF".
 * "Source Zip" to read, "LaTeX zip"
 * "EPUB File" to read "EPUB"
 * "ODT File (Word processor)" to read, "ODT (Word processor)"
 * "Template Expansion" to read, "Template options". In the selector:
 * "Print" to read "Standard book" or similar. But they how is this different from Book Mode?
 * "BookMode" to read "Wikipedia Book".
 * "MediaWiki" to read "Wikitext" (they are all MediaWiki input!).
 * "Normal" to read "Custom expansion" or similar (it is not at all normal for most users!).
 * "Paper" to read, "Page size". In the selector:
 * letter, legal and executive to be capitalised as Letter, Legal and Executive.
 * Immediately below the page size warning specific to the configuration, add a note that:
 * For the 200 page server, "If your book is up to 800 pages you can use the large book service." and link to that server.
 * For the 800 page server, "This server can be busy for long periods. For a book below 200 pages you can use the small book service." and link to that server.
 * "There is no limit in the downloadable versions shown on the right." to read, "There is no limit by default in the downloadable version of the software, see link on right."
 * Questions:
 * For a page or book which is not in the Book: namespace, how is the Book Mode different from Print mode?
 * How does the default config of Normal mode behave? Is it the same as MediaWiki mode? If not, what is different?
 * Can you update both the main server and the large book server at wmflabs?

PediaPress PoD

 * PediaPress
 * Help:Books/Printed books
 * Help:Books/PediaPress PDF rendering
 * Template:PediaPressTicket
 * Website: https://pediapress.com/

All books are 5.5 in x 8.5 in.

You can add a cover image and styling on upload.

You can also add an author name and custom Preface.

Queries

 * Personalised edition vs generic Wikipedia edition for wider release?
 * New editions alongside or replace the old?
 * Multiple editors uploading editions?