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Add infoboxes to pdfs
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Current Status: Currently, no tables of any sort are included when you print a wikipedia article as pdf. Infoboxes are treated as "normal" tables and as such not included, either.

Task: Include Infoboxes in article pdfs

Questions to answer:

  • Is there an easy way to identify all infoboxes?
  • Is there a limit on how wide an infobox can be and if yes, would that be smaller than the column width of the 2-column-pdf layout?
  • How would the layout within the pdf look like?

Please be aware that there are separate tasks for improving a patch to add all kinds of tables to the pdf(T137431) and for adding tables to the appendix of a pdf (T137432)

Background:
The proposal to Include tables in pdfs received 23 support votes in the community wishlist survey, and was ranked #39 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Templates#Inserting_templates_.28tables.29_in_PDF_and_Books

This was also on the German Community Wishlist 2015: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_2015/PDF_und_Drucken#Tabellen_in_PDFs

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• Lea_WMDE created this task.Jun 9 2016, 3:37 PM
Restricted Application added a project: TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish). · View Herald TranscriptJun 9 2016, 3:37 PM
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• Lea_WMDE mentioned this in T137431: Improve patch to show tables in pdfs.Jun 9 2016, 3:50 PM
• Lea_WMDE mentioned this in T137432: Add a table appendix to pdfs.Jun 9 2016, 3:56 PM
• Lea_WMDE updated the task description. (Show Details)
• Lea_WMDE added a parent task: T135643: Show tables in pdfs (#9).Jun 9 2016, 3:59 PM
• Lea_WMDE added a project: Wikimania-Hackathon-2016.
• Lea_WMDE moved this task from Backlog to Projects on the Wikimania-Hackathon-2016 board.Jun 9 2016, 4:01 PM
• Lea_WMDE mentioned this in T135422: Wishlist tasks suggested for the Wikimania Hackathon 2016.Jun 9 2016, 4:08 PM
Krenair subscribed.Jun 9 2016, 6:40 PM

How is this task distinct from the others about implementing table support?

• Lea_WMDE added a comment.Jun 10 2016, 10:22 AM

Thanks for the critical question! It would have been distinct if there was an easy way to identify all infoboxes, but this does not seem to be the case. Therefore, there is no real distinction as in this task you would run into all the problems you would also have tackling all kinds of problems. I will close the task.

• Lea_WMDE closed this task as Invalid.Jun 10 2016, 10:23 AM
• Lea_WMDE removed a parent task: T135643: Show tables in pdfs (#9).Jun 13 2016, 2:10 PM
Addshore moved this task from Incoming to Done on the German-Community-Wishlist board.Jul 7 2016, 11:00 AM
Tobi_WMDE_SW moved this task from Incoming to Tables in pdfs on the TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish) board.Nov 22 2016, 11:13 AM
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