[Booki-dev] wikibooks to booki-zip via epub

[adam hyde]

hey

this is very rockn...if a factor in the speed is the network would it
make sense to see if wikimedia foundation would implement the epub
generator on their side and we request epubs from them? they might find
the generator useful for their own needs too. Erik Moeller (WMF) as said
he would like to work with us more, so this might be a good start to
that as well.

in the meantime...can we place the wikibooks importer in the same the
page we put the archive importer in booki? how do we implement this?

adam



On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 21:44 +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> I batch tested Jan's wikibooks2epub script against Wikibooks' "featured
> books".  Most of them worked OK.  The exceptions were some that failed
> with unicode errors in two separate places, and one that hung mysteriously.
> 
> You can see the unicode errors here:
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/epub/wikibooks/fetch.log
> 
> It looks like the usual python thing where you need to scatter
> ".encode('utf-8')" around the place.  (BTW, urllib.urlencode does what
> line 48/49 does, though I don't know if it does unicode).
> 
> The "Ada Programming" book used over an hour of CPU time and about the
> same in elapsed time before I terminated it.  I don't know what was up.
> 
> Some others took a while but didn't use much CPU -- presumably they were
> just waiting on the network.
> 
> Then I ran espri over all the successful epubs, which seemed to work
> with no problems.  All of the scripts and results are here:
> 
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/epub/wikibooks/
> 
> The real test is to see how the books behave in Booki, but I'm not quite
> sure how to do that.
> 
> 
> Douglas
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