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You can collect articles, generate and download a document in one of several formats from article collections or from single articles, order books from a print-on-demand partner and save article collections for later use or to share them,
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[edit] Add and remove articles
When you are on an article page, you see a small box titled "collection" on the left. Here you can add the current article (in the currently shown revision) to your collection. If the article has previously been added to the collection you can remove it instead.
[edit] Manage the collection
Click "Show collection" to go to the Special:Collection. Here you can manage your collection:
- enter a title and a subtitle for the collection
- create chapters
- rearrange the articles and chapters in the collection
- remove articles and chapters from your collection
- sort the collection (chapter-wise)
[edit] Download documents
To download an entire collection as a document, go to the Special:Collection page, choose the desired format and click the "Download" button.
[edit] Improving the output
Some articles use wikitext that is not ideal for producing e.g. PDFs. One important special case is the use of templates that should look different or be omitted in the rendered output. There are two ways to handle such a template during document generation:
- exclude the template by adding its name to the [MediaWiki:PDF Template Blacklist|template blacklist]
- override it with another template by creating a template with name "PrintSOMETEMPLATE" where SOMETEMPLATE is the name of the original template.
[edit] Format for the template blacklist
The template blacklist page should contain a list of links to the blacklisted templates in the following form:
* [[Template:Templatename]] * [[Template:SomeOtherTemplatename]]
[edit] Order books
You can easily order a book made from your collection. Just click on the links of a print-on-demand partner at the right of the Special:Collection page.
[edit] Save and load collections
You have to be logged-in to save a collection. Go to the Special:Collection page, choose whether you want to save the collection as a subpage of your userpage or as a subpage of Wikipedia:Collections, enter a title and click the save button. Collections are automatically added to the Collections category.
If you are on a collection page, the "collection" portlet on the left contains a "Load collection" link to load the shown collection.
[edit] Format of saved collection pages
A collection with title "My Collection" and subtitle "Just an Example" consisting of two chapters "Foo" and "Bar" each containing three articles will be saved as a page with the following wikitext:
== My Collection == === Just an Example === ;Foo :[[First_article]] :[[Second_article]] :[[Third_article]] ;Bar :[[Fourth_article]] :[[Fifth_article]] :[[Sixth_article]] [[Category:Collections]]