Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

This also applies for different languages (e.g. German+English), of course.

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/408

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

Added PediaPress support team to CC

volker.haas wrote:

The "back-end" (storage file format + rendering engines) already supports this feature. Currently the "only" problem is the the Extension:Collection (-> the UI) does not allow creating such collections. At the moment there is no plan to add this feature.

[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html .
Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest".
For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will
not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]

• Bug 44184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/44848

We'll still need upstream fixes, see mwlib/metabook.py -- none of the interwiki code seems to be wired in. Also, the permalink fields ("oldid", etc) are not available for external pages, they will have to be fetched along with the article source.

Finally, the UI is an interesting challenge. File moar bugs!

We've tried to do something vaguely similar, though we have a different problem. We've tried to just interwiki transclude then add that new page to the book. When we interwiki transclude a Wikipedia page to our wiki, the content appears normally on the wiki. When we output the interwiki transcluded page (render) it to a PDF, only the text appears. We don't have the faintest clue why the Wikipedia text appears but the images don't in the PDF.

In T19168#2114949, @Lostraven wrote:

We've tried to do something vaguely similar, though we have a different problem. We've tried to just interwiki transclude then add that new page to the book. When we interwiki transclude a Wikipedia page to our wiki, the content appears normally on the wiki. When we output the interwiki transcluded page (render) it to a PDF, only the text appears. We don't have the faintest clue why the Wikipedia text appears but the images don't in the PDF.

Useful experiment! Do you have InstantCommons enabled? Interwiki trasclusion users action=render, which of course hotlinks whatever thumbnail URL is used on the source page. You should check if the image which "appears normally on the wiki" also exists locally (i.e. you can see it on a "File:" page with the same title).

In T19168#2115960, @Nemo_bis wrote:

Useful experiment! Do you have InstantCommons enabled? Interwiki trasclusion users action=render, which of course hotlinks whatever thumbnail URL is used on the source page. You should check if the image which "appears normally on the wiki" also exists locally (i.e. you can see it on a "File:" page with the same title).

Yes, Instant Commons is enabled on our wiki. For example, we Interwiki Transcluded the "Implant (medicine)" page to our wiki. The content from Wikipedia appears on our wiki just fine, images and all. The images have a corresponding local page on our wiki as well. (The page File:X-ray3.jpg appears on both Wikipedia and our wiki, for example.) Yet the Collection extension is tripping up somehow, not including the images from any Interwiki Transcluded pages added to a book in the PDF output. Well, I assume it's the extension. If it's not and there's some other setting we need to alter, we sure don't know what it is.