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User:Steelpillow/Wikipedia Books/Nav book tool

Aiming to try and build some Wikipedia:Books via Book creator.

My books

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Aircraft wing configurations

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

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

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Wings of Hamburg (Blohm & Voss)

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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
  • Lufthansa Ha 139 transatlantic mail plane being launched from a ship at sea. Used
    Lufthansa Ha 139 transatlantic mail plane being launched from a ship at sea. Used
  • The one I tidied up and better resolution, but it's a warplane. Not used.
    The one I tidied up and better resolution, but it's a warplane. Not used.
Preface to PediaPress edition

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.

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)

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Just check for new articles from time to time.

History of Flight

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Built broadly around Template:History of aviation.

Checkout for bits to add to the articles below:

Notional contents to date
Try with no chapter headings and see what it looks like in PDF (once available again)

Aircraft design configurations

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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.

Software

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Summary of components

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Book Creator

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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)

Resources

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Miscellaneous

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Status last updated 23 August 2020.


Wikipedia namespace

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(probably incomplete)

Help pages

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Single pages
Book collections

Templates

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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:

Other links:

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

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Softcopy conversion pull service, created by Dirk Hünniger.

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Options

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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.

Notes

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Tables
Tables will be rendered if and only if the template prettytable or the attribute class="wikitable" is present in the table header. You can reduce the fontsize for a table by adding latexfontsize="scriptsize" into its header. In contrast to the tolerant behavior of mediawiki, wikipdf requires new tables to start on a new line.
Template expansion
The small differences using different ways of template expansion are expected. Usually you can simply use Print and everything will be Ok. Book Mode is used for collections, like wikipedia books. The other modes do not process html but wiki source text, and could get better results is some situations. In particular normal is helpful since it uses handwritten expansions rules for many templates on the englisch and german wikibooks. Also if you use a collection that is in wikipedia book namespace, book mode will be used even if you select Print.

Issues/suggestions

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Book rendering
  • No Chapter headings or custom article titles.
  • Categories should not be included (although in-page text legends for links marked up as [[:Category:...]] 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. At least partially implemented
  • Navigation templates should be dropped and not rendered at all. At least partially implemented
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."
  • "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

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All books are 5.5 inches (14.0 cm)* x 8.5 inches (21.6 cm)*.

You can add a cover image and styling on upload.

You can also add an author name and custom Preface.

Queries

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