Book management 2012/Scope

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The main aim of this project is to create way of having books and its easy management and usage. Based on the current requirement and comments of the Mediawiki community, an initial list of deliverables has been compiled. The project would need to address the following set of features:

  • Put the book pages in a specific group(Bug 15071)(high importance)
    • Edit (specialpage?)
      • Pages
        • Basic edit options(1)
          • Arrange order of pages in a group (Bug 15073)
          • Editing without leaving of the special page (similar to LQT)
          • Create a link to "veiw", "edit" and "history" beside each page of the list
          • Add pages that exist(with content)
            • From special page
            • By individual pages(like collaction)
          • Add pages that do not yet exist, but are in the plans (wikitout content, similar to the red links)
          • Display in recent changes when page is added or when sort pages in a group.
        • Run bulk actions from the list of pages (Bug???)(3)
          • Watchlist (Bug 15072 and Bug 12908)
          • Move (Bug 15072 and Bug 12908)(when renaming an existing page in the list it should be moved... in case of books and the prefix should be ignored
          • Delete(Bug 15072 and Bug 12908)
          • Print (Bug ??????)
          • Order printed version (pediapress, lulu.com?) (Bug 26448)
          • Export (Bug 26448)
            • PDF
            • ODT
            • Kindle
            • EPub
            • Zim
      • Edit metadata(4)
        • Automatically generated
          • Colaborators(list all by history)
          • Number of (wiki)pages
          • Size(total number of bytes of wikitext)
          • Average size of the page
        • Cover
        • Subject(DDC, UDC, LOC etc)
        • Larn and/or educational level(generally in wikibooks)
        • Comprisement or level of development(generally in wikibooks)
        • Author(in wikisource)
        • Original language (in wikisource)
        • Ref edition(wikisource)
      • Other maintenance functions of groups of pages(5)
        • Recent changes
        • WhatLinkHere
        • Files
        • Wanted pages
        • Double redirect
        • Broken redirect
        • New pages
        • Recent changes by newbie
      • Gadgets (CSS-JS per books) (Bug 15075)(6)
    • Read
      • Basic(2)
        • Navbar(providing easy access to:)
          • Table of content(list of pages)(Bug 31075)
          • Meta-data(4)
          • Get book
            • Export link
            • Print link
            • Order printed book link
          • Next page
          • Prev page
        • Index(maybe a specialpage)
          • Table of content(list of pages)(Bug 31075)
          • Meta-data(4)
          • Get book
          • References group (special page?) link deve estar disponível na lista de páginas (Bug 10092)
      • Complet(optional)(8)
        • A similar experience with the tools of reading books on the market (which is a complicated task is not a requirement of this years GSOC) ex:Ebook Reader, Google Docs PDF Reader, docstoc(flash), issuu(flash e meu predileto), yudu(flash), scribd(flash), wepapers(flash), iBooks
    • Talk page(of group) (or list talk pages of group)
    • History(of group)
    • Random page(in group) (Bug 31254)
      • Random book
      • Random page
    • List books (or groups of groups of pages)(7)
      • Should be done automatically through metadata.


..(any more which would be required)

The above list forms an initial scope and boundary of this project. More features may be added as and when further discussions take place.