in Wikipedia, die vrye ensiklopedie
Printed PediaPress books of Wikipedia content.
1) Kliek op
Order Book
2) Boek word deur PediaPress gelaai
3) Kies land, dan word die prys word getoon
4) Besigtig 'n voorskou
5) Voeg aan u waentjie toe
6) Voer u adres- en rekeninginligting in
Gedrukte boeke kan deur
PediaPress
bestel word.
Simply click on "Order book from PediaPress" on the
Special:Book
page. This uploads your book to the PediaPress website.
After choosing the destination country, an approximate number of pages and the price are shown. Title, subtitle and editor can be set or changed here. There is a preview which shows how your selected articles (only the first N pages) will look like in a printed book. (
Note
: The typesetting of printed books differs from downloadable PDFs, since the page size is A5, not A4, and it includes additional features like a table of contents, index, etc.)
At this point, your book can be ordered by adding it to the cart and checking out. Available payment methods are MasterCard, Visa and PayPal. Books are printed within 2-3 business days, and shipping takes another 2-10 days.
Printed Wikipedia-Book by PediaPress
PediaPress uses the
TeX
typesetting system to generate a digital prepress repro. Books are
printed on demand
either in the UK or the USA. Books produced by this technique look just like conventional paperback books.
Book specification:
Content
Table of contents
The selected articles
Licensing information
Index
Paper size: A5 (approx. 5.8 in × 8.3 in)
Images are printed in greyscale using the highest available resolution
Books can contain 50 to 800 pages
There is an
example book
(PDF) which shows how printed books are typeset.
number of pages
price
100
€8
200
€11
300
€14
400
€17
500
€20
600
€23
700
€26
!!! Exact cost varies from country to country and may fluctuate daily based on currency exchange rates.
!!!
Pricing for printed books depends on the number of included pages (see table). The larger the book, the less the cost per page. Shipping costs depend on the shipping destination. To get a detailed quote simply upload your book to PediaPress and select your country and currency.
The
Wikimedia Foundation
receives 10% of the sale price of each book.
Books are shipped using a standard shipping option to most countries in the world. Delivery time varies from 2 to 10 working days depending on the destination.
pediapress.com is an online service which offers customized printed books from wiki content. The web-to-print service works on any MediaWiki which has deployed the open source
Collection Extension
. The company actively supports the MediaWiki community and established a long-term partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation
. The company was founded in 2007 and is located in Mainz, Germany. For more information see
Why are articles displayed differently than in the browser?
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Books have no scroll bars, while a browser does, so printed content needs to be split up on several pages. To get an acceptable typesetting result, some page elements need to be displayed differently. This may result in some unexpected layouts, especially for tables and parts of wiki articles that use HTML instead of MediaWiki markup.
You can edit the wiki articles themselves to make them print better. See
Help for Experts
for some ideas.
The OpenDocument format (ODF) is an XML based file format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. It is a free and open OASIS standard aimed to replace the proprietary Microsoft Word file format.
Storing books in this format is useful if one wants to modify the books. This options allows to generate arbitrarily styled books with additional content. Teachers may find this useful.
All stored books are placed in
Category:Wikipedia:Books
. Since this category is growing rapidly, there will soon be a bookshelf which allows to explore the list of compiled and shared books.
link to each article and its version
all contributors are mentioned
images are linked to their image page on the wiki
Warning: Authors and licenses of images are not part of the PDF. So these PDFs can not be distributed without further manipulation if they contain images.
inclusion of the GFDL (English)
URL of each article and its version
all contributors are mentioned
URL of each image
all contributors of an image are mentioned
license name of the image is mentioned
inclusion of the GFDL (English)
The ID of the
element is
p-coll-create_a_book
(in all languages). To hide the box, insert the following text to your
Special:MyPage/monobook.css
#p-coll-create_a_book { display: none; }
The tool currently only works with the "Monobook" and "Modern" skins. There is a simple workaround: switch to Monobook when creating books.
Currently books can not contain more than 500 articles. Please keep in mind that generation of large PDFs can take a long time and results in high server load. Dividing article collections into multiple books might be a solution.
Printed books currently support no more than 800 pages (not articles!).
Rule of thumb: Printed books (A5) have approximately 2 times the number of pages than the PDFs (A4) have.
Infoboxes
and other large tables are printed at full page size, not "floated" to the side as on the Web. This is a result of the limited size of A5 paper: if the infobox was shrunk to fit, the text within would be illegible.
CSS and HTML used in the wiki markup are only partially evaluated when generating PDFs. Templates can be adjusted for print to avoid some of the problems, see
Help for Experts
for details.