User talk:Zanimum

Someone with more involvement in the Dutch project should move this to Main_Page:Leitseite, to stay in proper correspondance with the standards used on the other foreign language main pages. Or, non-English really. - user:zanimum


 * Have you seen the previous discussion on Talk:Leitseite? -- 217.1.207.172 21:34, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Big Cats Wikijunior
Where is the discussion surrounding the December 10th deadline for Big Cats to be up-to-code? Thanks. -- LV (Dark Mark) 18:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * On the original proposal to the Beck Foundation (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior/proposal_to_Beck_Foundation), we said it would be printed by December 2005. All good printers likely have a backlog of jobs, because they're so in demand. Plus, I have to preflight the file to make sure it will print. So, sooner is better than later. --  user:zanimum


 * Well, thanks for the response. So what is going to happen to the Solar System book? I thought that that book was going to be the first to print. Maybe I read that wrong somewhere. Anyway, do we even know who is going to be doing the printing or distributing? Do we have any of the processes in place to actually make this happen, or is this just something you noticed and decided to act upon? -- LV (Dark Mark) 19:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


 * That was discussed at Talk:Wikijunior Solar System/Archive 2. I think it'd be a way better idea to publish Solar System first, but unforunately our grant proposal for some reason explicitly says that our first one will be on animals.  Not sure if they'd really hold us to that or not.  Anyone know who is actually in communication with the Beck Foundation?  &mdash; Laura Scudder | Talk 20:36, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Example chapter
You wrote:

"Shall I do up an example of a chapter of the US Constitution and Government textbook? Just thought I'd mention that Cafepress would be our best choice, because they print of demand. That way, if it sinks, it doesn't hurt anyone's pocketbook."

Excellent idea. It is actually quite easy to do the whole book. I have just finished "Consciousness Studies". See:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/b/bb/Consciousness_studies.pdf

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Consciousness_studies/Print_version

This was how I did it:


 * I made the print version then viewed and saved it. I opened this file in MS Word and saved it once more in Word format. This allowed Word to set the pagination, produce a TOC etc. The document "read" differently as a whole book so I did some final edits and juggled with the image placements. I then downloaded PDFCreator and printed the Word document to PDF. This preserved the page breaks, which are the big problem with the HTML original whether printed direct or converted to PDF and printed.

RobinH 21:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)