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a third-party company. Editors in the discussion about suppressing book templates valued the user experience of Knowledge readers over the business prospects of PediaPress. The namespace and its transclusions are still retained in the hope that the WMF will come up with a solution. As a result of
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Please keep in mind, generation of very large PDFs can take a long time and result in high server load. Dividing a large article collection into multiple volumes might make it more practical for you.
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The early ambitions of the book project have been substantially cut back over the years, due to the withdrawal of resources. Many features previously offered or proposed have disappeared.
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As the Book Creator no longer generates downloadable copies of Knowledge books, its primary working feature directs users to order a printed copy of a Knowledge book from
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at the end of June where they remained for a month to allow users to keep books in userspace and allow for refunds after namespace deletion.
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A Knowledge book is a collection of articles linked from a special Book page comprising brief details and a table of contents.
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provides a softcopy conversion service to pdf and other formats. It remains under active support and may be used online or
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You can use the book's title page as a home page and browse the book by clicking the links in the table of contents.
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Knowledge books are available for rendering as PDF files or printing off as paper books by third party providers.
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namespace containing community books was deleted in July 2021. More information can be found at
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anticipated future solutions template transclusions should not be removed from articles. See
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As time goes by and the articles get edited, the contents of the book will change to match.
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You create the book in the same way as any other Wikibook, using the Book Creator.
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When you visit the book's page you are also offered the option to send it to
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You will need to check this with your chosen external rendering service.
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works out of the box with most MediaWikis and the PediaPress service.
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also offers an independent pull service to create a PDF softcopy.
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For help with downloading a single Knowledge page as a PDF, see
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Bugs, feature requests and questions are best reported at the
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E-books are available from the independent rendering service
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You will need to ask the rendering service how they comply.
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For details of how to restore a book after deletion, see:
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You can create and edit a Knowledge book design using the
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You click the Book Creator option to upload the book to
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Can I use the book tool with my MediaWiki installation?
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If you created the book by mistake or as a test, place
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Where has the on-Wiki PDF rendering and download gone?
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Help:Books
Help:Books/Frequently Asked Questions
Book Creator
MediaWiki2LaTeX
installed locally
Pedia Press
print-on-demand
A5
Help:Download as PDF
formally deprecated
delete the book namespace and all pages within it
restored
uninstalled from the English Knowledge
Knowledge:Books/archive
Knowledge:Books/archive
Category:User namespace book pages
Knowledge:Books/archive
bookshelf
PediaPress
MediaWiki2LaTeX
Help:Books
Help:Books
User:USERNAME/Books/My book
db-u1
Book:Foobar
db-test
db-author
bots
Miscellany for Discussion
Proposed Deletion (for books)

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