[OWW-SC] POWW!

[John Cumbers]

speaking of those who like PDF's...

WikiEducator is a wiki for e-learning material, this extension allows you to
click a button to add things to your 'PDF shopping cart' as you go along,
finally you check out and print all the things you put in there as a single
PDF, could be a useful feature for POWW, still in beta,

from: http://wikieducator.org/Help:Collections
cheers,
John


WikiEducator is currently testing a new feature for managing collections of
wiki pages. The *Collection Manager*, shown in the WikiEducator sidebar,
allows any user to build selections of wiki content, and to export them as a
PDF file.

With this new feature you can:

   - add or remove pages from a collection;
   - generate and download a PDF file from your current collection;
   - Produce a PDF from a single page; or
   - save your page collections for later use or to share them with your
   friends.

The feature is still experimental, and may not work on some pages, typically
those containing large amounts of custom HTML.

*If you notice pages that do not work, please help us by adding them to our Bug
report <http://wikieducator.org/Help:Collections/Bug_reports>.*


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On Jan 4, 2008 1:10 PM, John Cumbers <johncumbers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree, perhaps separating the content management idea, trying it out on
> PLOS content first sounds like a better idea,
> some good ideas,
> John
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2008 12:52 PM, Austin Che < austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > > read and study something in detail, mainly because viewing PDF's on
> > screen
> > > sucks, viewing wiki pages is somewhat better and the PLOS on-line
> > format is
> > > good, but I think we're missing the main point.
> >
> >    I actually think PDFs online are easier to read than wikis.
> >
> > > We need a way to replicate the things that we like about reading
> > things on
> > > paper, in a digital way so that people wanting to study the content,
> > want to
> > > read it on-line instead of printing it.   I have some ideas for
> > tracking the
> >
> >    This a good idea but I think is quite separate from the idea of a
> >    POWW journal. We don't need a journal to do any of these things.
> >
> > > Perhaps the main article could be a traditional wiki page, but tagged
> > so
> > > that the content could be scrapped into the different forms?
> >
> >    plos has a xml format for their content. If we just wanted to work
> >    on the easy online reading of content, we could begin by creating
> >    a front-end for plos content and displaying their articles in a
> >    friendly way.
> >
> >    I think a POWW journal has more possibilities in actually changing
> >    the way the publishing process works rather than just the final
> >    form of the content.
> >
> >    Some ideas:
> >    - All peer reviews are public, on the wiki, and reviewers get
> >    credit
> >    - A better credit, authorship system at least for who wrote an
> >    article on the wiki. If I see an interesting fact/sentence in an
> >    article, I should be able to easily figure out who wrote that and
> >    should contact to get more info.
> >    - Continually evolving articles
> >    - Article comments/discussions being tracked with an article
> >    - Of course, openness in everything
> >
> > --
> > Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu >          (617)253-5899
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>
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John Cumbers,  Graduate Student
Biology and Medicine
Brown University, Box G-W
Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA
Tel USA: +1 401 523 8190,  Fax: +1 401 863-2166
UK to USA: 0207 617 7824
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