This is another thing which would be a lot easier to do on Wikisource/Wikibooks if we had means to associate separate pages with books (Bug 15071). Currently, for each book in those projects, we need to duplicate the list of chapters in a lot of places:
* The book index
* The print version (since the collection extension doesn't provide any HTML printable version)
* The collection pages
Besides the above, in Bug 15073 is also mentioned the need of automatic forward/back links on subpages of a book, which usually has to be done (and updated (!) in more than one place each time a page is moved) by hand on Wikibooks. For Wikisources, the Proofread Page extension do this for Wikisources, but Collection extension isn't compatible with it (Bug 21653).
At pt.wikibooks we tried to use centralized templates ([[b:pt:Template:Lista de capítulos]]) to keep the list of chapters of each book, so that these templates could be used to the purposes above ([[b:pt:Template:Lista de capítulos/Imprimir]], [[b:pt:Template:Lista de capítulos/Coleção]], [[b:pt:Template:AutoNav]]/[[b:pt:MediaWiki:Gadget-Navegação automática.js]]). Currently, we are able to use such templates to automatically generate:
1. Automatic navigation between subpages of a book
2. HTML printable version
3. The wikicode for collection pages
Nonethelles, even being able to workaround Bug 15071 and generate the lists of item 3 above, the collection extension doesn't create the book from that list, because 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
So, it would be really good if the extension could be indeed be enhanced to solve our current problems, as suggested at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15073#c1
since, until now, it is not much compatible with projects other that Wikipedia:
* [[w:en:Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2009/November#Wrong order]]
* [[w:en:Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2009/December#Access to tex sourcecode]]
* [[w:en:Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2010/March#Bug: It is not possible to define a chapter to have only one wikipage]]
* [[w:en:Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2010/May#The extension is not parsing templates]]
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection/Wishlist#Output_HTML
* Bug 21070
* Bug 15071
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**Version**: unspecified
**Severity**: enhancement
**URL**: http://web.archive.org/web/20090211185102/http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/295
**See Also**:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090211185102/http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/295