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it doesn't expand the templates used, as mentioned at
[[Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2010/May#The_extension_is_not_parsing_templates]]
and
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21653#c4

I've filled this on Bug 26533.

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• The print version (since the collection extension doesn't provide any HTML

printable version)

This seems an easy thing to add to the Collection extension. See e.g. the [[Special:PrintVersion]] provided by
[[mw:Extension:BookManager#Automatic_print_version]]

mhershberger wrote:

Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734

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(In reply to comment #0)

it doesn't expand the templates used, as mentioned at
[[Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2010/May#The_extension_is_not_parsing_templates]]
and
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21653#c4

I've filled this on Bug 26533.

and our current workaround on Portuguese Wikibooks is to use "subst" in the template, but this requires a new edit every time the list of chapters changes. E.g.:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/pt/w/index.php?diff=221782&oldid=216651&uselang=en

Yes, this is well known to be the single most important feature request for the Collection extension on Wikisource/Wikibooks, originally filed by Mike.lifeguard in 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20090211185102/http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/295

When I discussed this issue with PediaPress in 2011, I proposed http://web.archive.org/web/20111002214427/http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/827 as a workaround, because we almost always use subpages; they told me that the community should have developed gadgets or bots to make such listing automatically.

However that never happened. Instead we're using WSexport because it only asks the root page title and does all the rest on its own. https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WSexport
Helder, I jut got fed up and decided to make the lists "by hand" for all it.source books, see [[s:it:Speciale:Contributi/AnankeBot]] (1300 books to start with). If you're interested, we could try and work together on some standard semi-automated process for such bulk creations, that each Wikisource could then reuse.

Raylton, is this on the radar for this year's development on bug 15071? If I had to pick *one* book management feature to have at the end of the year, this would be it. :)

Some notes: on Portuguese Wikibooks, we are using
https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Module:Book
for a few of the "book management" tasks:

• It generates the previous/next links for the navigation bar[1]
• It produces the printable version in HTML using Special:ExpandTemplates[2][3]

For this, the module parses the collection page of the associated book, e.g.
https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Project:Livros/Budismo

We used a python script[4] to compare the index (root page) of each book to its collection, so we can keep only the collection pages and possibly deprecate the indexes.

I remmember a user from fr.wikibooks was trying to do something similar a while ago[5].

I haven't used Wikisource for a while, so I don't know how things are going over there...

[1] Discussed here: https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/T%C3%B3pico:Wikilivros_Discuss%C3%A3o:Portal_comunit%C3%A1rio/Navega%C3%A7%C3%A3o_autom%C3%A1tica

[2] https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/T%C3%B3pico:Wikilivros_Discuss%C3%A3o:Portal_comunit%C3%A1rio/Navega%C3%A7%C3%A3o_autom%C3%A1tica/resposta_%2814%29

[3] https://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?diff=268297&oldid=265600

[4] https://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?oldid=268476#collection.py

[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension_talk:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#getContent_returns_the_unparsed_content.2C_but_how_to_return_the_interpreted_one.3F