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Comment MediaWiki books (Score 2, Interesting) 162

A somewhat related issue is using a Wiki to prepare contents for a book. I believe that there is lot of future in this since writing is more difficult than formatting, and using a wiki helps to organize ideas and collaborative work (testing it right now).

Now, for MediaWikis there is a sort of procedure. The German Wikipedia community seems to have the best experience so far and some reader really have been published in paper form.

WikiReader Handbuch and a Magnus' magic MediaWiki-to-XML-to-stuff converter

Btw there is also the idea that one could some day directly produce PDF from Wiki. A script for print on demand is on source forge .

Maybe a ./ reader went through the experience making a book from Wiki and could tell us how it went ...

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