Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Wikisource/Improve export of electronic books

Improve export of electronic books

Problem: Imagine if Wikipedia pages could not display for many days, or would only be available once in a while for many weeks. Imagine if Wikipedia displayed pages with missing informations or scrambled information.

This is what visitors get when they download books from the French Wikisource. Visitors do not read books online in a browser. They want to download them on their reader in epub, mobi or pdf.

The current tool to export books in these formats has all those problems: last spring 2017, it was on and off for over a month; since october 2017, mobi format does not work, then pdf stopped working. I did not publish a book because the electronic formats has different problems. (I have made a list of these problems if required.)

Who would benefit: The end users, the visitors to Wikisource, by having access to high quality books. This would improve the credibility of Wikisource.

This export tool is the showcase of Wikisource. Contributors can be patient with system bugs, but visitors won’t be, and won’t come back.

The export tool is as important as the web site is.

Proposed solution: We need a professional tool, that runs and is supported 24/7, as the different wikimedia web sites are, by Wikimedia foundation professional developers.

The tool should support different possibilities of electronic book, and the evolution of ebooks technology.

The different bugs should be corrected.

More comments: There are not enough people in a small wiki to support and maintain such a tool.

Wikisource should not only be considered a web base platform: the ebooks are as important, and even more important for visitors.

Phabricator tickets: phabricator:T178803

Proposer: Viticulum (talk) 09:31, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: Français

Discussion

For some information the current problem (only the last episode of a long and sad road of problem) is phabricator:T178803. The problem is ongoing for almost a month now and we have a lot of complaints from readers. Cdlt, VIGNERON * ^discut. 13:01, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Goldzahn (talk) 23:33, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support —viciarg⁴¹⁴ 08:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support VIGNERON * ^discut. 09:01, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support HHill (talk) 11:54, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --*j*jac (talk) 12:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:31, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support FON-DA-MEN-TAL Consulnico (talk) 15:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Acélan (talk) 15:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kaviraf (talk) 15:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ninovolador (talk) 20:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 23:20, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 05:59, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Toto256 (talk) 06:31, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Laurent Jerry (talk) 10:13, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support AlessioMela (talk) 10:40, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 13:26, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Accurimbono (talk) 08:16, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exilexi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Wuyouyuan (talk) 15:43, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dromedar61 (talk) 21:57, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Manseng (talk) 21:58, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sahaquiel9102 (talk) 22:08, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jayantanth (talk) 14:12, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Haytham^Abulela 18:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 20:35, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support If I could vote 100 times, I would vote 100 times this one. Stéphane22 (talk) 12:53, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 13:40, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 14:13, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bzhqc (talk) 10:40, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support PMG (talk) 16:53, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support HugoHelp (talk) 02:37, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bodhisattwa (talk) 19:29, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ankry (talk) 22:13, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thurs (talk) 06:12, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nala ^Discuter 08:16, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
Support Zazaattila55 (talk) 08:30, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Afnecors (talk) 09:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --EusebiaP (talk) 10:11, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hector (talk) 13:34, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Le ciel est par dessus le toit (talk) 14:49, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cantons-de-l'Est (talk) 16:41, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support STRONG SUPPORT. Books today are read on smartphones. Codex (talk) 18:48, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vigno (talk) 19:15, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support export the content of our wikis is a underestimated task. It is essential to the diffusion and reuse part of the free knowledge goals. Simon Villeneuve 22:12, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
Support Bertrand GRONDIN → ^(Talk) 17:44, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Support Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:12, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:22, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ruslik (talk) 13:42, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Psychoslave (talk) 08:54, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Seudo (talk) 09:38, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tpt (talk) 12:57, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Luchesar • T/C 14:38, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support X:: black ::X (talk) 17:33, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]