Wiki to printed book

From Ukcider

This page is for developing the idea of making pages from the wiki available to be printed on demand and bound as a book via online printing services such as lulu.com

Various practical questions need to be considered including for example:

What order would the content of the wiki go into the book as? (Alphabetical?)

Probably pre-defined using category tags to denote the sections for inclusion

Would the user have to opt in or out of pages one by one?

Section by section, ie

DO you want the cider makers FAQ pages Y/N ?

DO you want the entire cider pub guide Y/N ?

if no then do you want to select a few counties?

Would there be any form of "dependency" graph if you don't want to print the whole wiki? (e.g. if you select "Computer" and it links to "CPU", should CPU be automatically included, and thus should "AMD" also be included as a dependency of CPU, and other such issues)

No. Hypertext links within pages are not followed in the printed version.

What about the "talk" pages? Appendix? Optional?

No talk pages included

User pages?

No user pages

Other pages that aren't wiki entries?

Only wiki entry pages.

exclude those designated as "not for printing"

How would the wiki pages "link" to each other - a page reference in brackets, perhaps? Or just a name to look up in the index at the back (which would be easier ;))

No linking in the printed version

Would the footnotes/references be copied in on a per-wiki-page basis, or one huge appendix?

Any footnotes are treated as part of the page

How would we manage the media, for example images? We could try putting them inline as normal, but what if they are too large?

Shrink to fit?

We could not guarantee that the books would come out well... we might have to force-break some lines of text for example (even where the wiki says not to, for example code).

Text has to flow to fit the page.