Benutzer:Stefan Kühn/The Book

2020-06-28 Screenshot The Book 0.2

The Book is a project at the Wikimedia toolforge.org.

Description

This project side shows your Wikipedia like a printed lexicon book. From every article you get only the first paragraph and the first image and also all neighbor articles in a multi-column page. This help to research and discover unknown interesting article in your Wikipedia. The tool is available in over 300 languages.

Version 0.2

https://thebook.toolforge.org

Features

• 300+ languages
• Multi-column Layout
• 20 articles on one page (alphabetic order)
• goto function
• goto random page
• goto next or previous page (alphabetic order)

Screenshots

• 
  English
• 
  English
• 
  Spanish
• 
  Armenian
• 
  Urdu
• 
  French

Technical

• Use Wikimedia API
• Perl and CGI.pm
• CSS Multi-column Layout Module
• tested in Firefox, Google Chrome, IE, Edge
• HTML-Framework Bootstrap
• The Language Icon http://www.languageicon.org

Options

debug

&debug=1

• shows debug information
• Example
• only on page.cgi available

noimage

&noimage=1

• shows no image on this page
• Example
• only on page.cgi available

apilink

&apilink=1

• shows the link to the API after every article
• Example
• only on page.cgi available

Known bugs

• Math elements
  • Example Archimedes number
  • Reason: Wikimedia-API don't parse the math in plaintext

• Template elements
  • Example Laos or 19-Lachter-Stollen
  • Reason: Maybe wrong template programing?!?

• Widows and orphans
  • Reason: Technical problem of the HTML-Parsering in the browser (Write me, if you know a solution.)

Your wish-list

Please write your wish in English or German at the site: Benutzer Diskussion:Stefan Kühn/The Book. Thanks!

Version 0.1

Technical

• The Book - 0.1 (Offline, since toolserver is down)
• Perl CGI-Script
• parsing Wikipedia-Dumps for first pages and first images
• CSS Multi-column Layout Module
• tested Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome
• only 20 languages available

Screenshots

• 
  Lëtzebuergesch Wikipedia
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  Lëtzebuergesch Wikipedia
• 
  Deitsch Wikipedia
• 
  Deutsche Wikipedia
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  Deutsche Wikipedia
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  Deutsche Wikipedia
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  Deutsche Wikipedia