Wiki Book

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WikiBook is a way to work on a new book or translation using Wiki.


The idea is to use clusters to place a book in Wiki in a “natural” way, dividing it into clusters according to the book's rubrication.


The book title forms a top-level cluster, into which child sections are nested, such as preface, introduction, parts, each of these sections forms its own cluster, into which additional clusters can be nested, which correspond to chapters, into which sections, subsections, and so on can be nested.


Example of Structure


BookTitle?
BookTitle/Foreword?
BookTitle/Introduction
BookTitle/Part One
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter One
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter One/Section One
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter One/Subsection One
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter One/Section One/Subsection One
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter One/Section One/Subsection One
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter Two
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter Two/Section One
BookTitle/Part One/Chapter Two/Section One/Subsection One
BookTitle/Part One
BookTitle/Part One
BookTitle/Section Two
BookTitle/Section Two
BookTitle/Section One
BookTitle/Conclusion
BookTitle/Bibliography


Put everything back together with:

  • use {{include page="somepage" nomark=1}} and try to combine all pages into one or with cluster/export.xml

Add navigation between chapters

  • use {{navigation main="/BookTitle" prev="Introduction" next="ChapterTwo"}}

Wiki Books


Add better examples of Wiki Books
PPR:TheCollaborativeWikiNovel – The idea is good. The novella? Hmm, well, okay.



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