Capability to download a Wikibooks book for offline reading
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	• bzimport
	Feb 13 2008, 7:13 AM

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Author: inyuki

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Accessing all subpages of a book in order to save each is burdensome.

The solution could a function for downloading the page zipped with it's all subpages linked.

Possible steps:

Function for determining determining the list of pages to be downloaded from the name of a given page.
Function for assembling these by generating them locally to a temporary folder.
Function for changing the links inside the pages into filenames of the subpages.
Function for zipping the temporary folder.
Initiating the download.

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Severity: enhancement

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:05 PM

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Just two raw ideas:

Tools like Offline Explorer can be used to save selected pages of a web site (as a remedy).
I think what should be requested here, is an "extension" which allows saving the pages in an special format (say PDF).

inyuki wrote:

Comment on the two raw ideas:

Yes, OE can be useful, but just in some cases...
Saving a page in PDF <i>can</i> be useless in this case (namely, if you don't expand the subpages (pages with a URL that has "/" after the main article's namespace).

The MediaWiki extension "Collection" seems to fix that problem.