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A link should be provided to create a book from mobile
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Description

erik mentioned some time ago how important zim support is in
collections, and mentioned that there are barely downloads. very
rarely i get my hands on a new enought android version where kiwix
runs. and i tried to (1) create a book, and (2) download a book. both
failed.

  1. create a book

the mobile skin is lacking the "book" or "add page to book" link.
calling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book does not help
either, there is no obvious way to add pages to a book.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz60249

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:08 AM
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tested on android-4.1, standard browser chrome.

This is not a blocker at all - it looks like a request for enhancement to me.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Fields#Severity

This is not a Collection bug, Special:Book works perfectly on mobile. The issue is MobileFrontend killing links to it too aggressively. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book

bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1963

Not sure what actions there are here. We could potentially add a link to the bottom of the page in alpha as a starting point to explore interest but before that can happen the Special:Book page looks poor.

If it was rewritten to use HtmlForm it would look much better in mobile. Patches for that welcomed!

Jdlrobson set Security to None.
Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs triage to Triaged on the Mobile board.

@Nemo_bis T65459 concerns adding the Book link to the menu.
if Special:Book does not work in mobile that is a problem with the extensions collection
I don't see how any of this is specific to MobileFrontend - there is nothing to do here :-)

@Nemo_bis T65459 concerns adding the Book link to the menu.

Not really. That bug is more general; I tentatively marked it as blocker as you say it's related. *This* bug is about adding the Book link to the menu.

if Special:Book does not work in mobile that is a problem with the extensions collection
I don't see how any of this is specific to MobileFrontend - there is nothing to do here :-)

How so? Are you saying the addition of the link to Special:Book doesn't require a patch to MobileFrontend?

TTO renamed this task from create a book should be possible from mobile to A link should be provided to create a book from mobile.Jan 22 2015, 11:30 PM
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Updated the title to reflect the actual task description.

Is there a bug for making Special:Book work on MobileFrontend ?

Jdlrobson changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jun 7 2017, 5:20 PM
Jdlrobson changed the status of subtask T87400: Collections extension doesn't use OOUI PHP/JS from Stalled to Open.
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