Comments on: PDF live testing on English Wikipedia

By: brion

brion — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:25:12 +0000

From what I understand the Kindle’s conversion from PDF is notoriously flaky, but in theory it ought to do ok with something full of text. I’ll pass it on and see if we can test it out…

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:04:05 +0000

Hey, does anyone know why the PDFs rendered by this tool won’t work with the amazon Kindle 2?

By: Mike.lifeguard

Mike.lifeguard — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:58:09 +0000

That’s because nobody has created that page yet.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:26:49 +0000

Yep, looks really nice!

One thing: On the “Rendering finished” page, there’s a red link to “MediaWiki:PDF Template Blacklist”.

By: Res2216firestar

Res2216firestar — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:08:44 +0000

Tried it on the daily FA, seems great so far, much better than the printable versions that are in plain text/images.

By: Korrigan

Korrigan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:28:26 +0000

It may be worth mentioning http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_tool , the howto manual for preparing your wiki for this tool (which answers many questions and avoids a lot of unwanted feedback on on-issues)…

By: brion

brion — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:22:35 +0000

On some complicated tables it’ll kind of give up But it’s doing pretty well on most pages these days.

By: Pietrodn

Pietrodn — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:16:08 +0000

Cool! I’ve tried to render the Main Page on en.wikipedia but tables aren’t rendered.