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

[adam hyde]

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 10:19 +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> Adam wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure that speed matters that much.  The time to import is
> minuscule compared to the time it takes to edit the book, and there
> aren't that many wikibooks that are worth importing.  We're looking at
> saving, perhaps, 3 minutes each on 20 books.

it could be, but maybe people use this alot...i really dont know

> 
> If the point is to give wikimedia an epub export option (which would be
> good), then the testing focus should turn to the epub reader experience.
>  Espri is forgiving of things that reading devices might not be.

yeah, i notice the wikibooks do not open in the sony ereader. this might
be the file length issue we saw before

adam


> 
> Douglas


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