Author: f.poeck

Description:
Hi,

after searching & testing several hours i reached the following situation:

Current Situation:

It's seem like there is no single extension allowing an easy export of all articles to a single pdf - while there are several ways to generate pdfs from a collection of articles or single categories.

Extensions i did consider:

Extension: DumpHTML - working - but due to missing search (html) its not really useable as offside backup

Extension: PDF Export -> broken (see extension discussion/talk page)

Extension: Collection: complex config & requires online access or additional servers - might be a problem for specific setups.

Extension: PDF Book (pdf & html) - works pretty good for single categories - but is missing an option to select ALL articles.

Target:

A simple way to generate easy readable offsite backups of entire mediawiki installations - in best case the pdf-generation could be triggered from mediawiki itself but as well from cli (i.e. for cron-jobs/script usage)

Ideas:

I guess it could make sense to tweak Extension:PDFbook - as in theory/right now it should just miss an option to collect all articles. The pdf-generation in general is working already for single categories.

If that function would be added it would be pretty easy to generate pdf-backups from entire wikis - which might help several people overall.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement