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/PartOne
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterOne
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterOne/SectionOne
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterOne/SubsectionOne
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterOne/SectionOne/SubsectionOne
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterOne/SectionOne/SubsectionOne
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterTwo
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterTwo/SectionOne
BookTitle/PartOne/ChapterTwo/SectionOne/SubsectionOne
BookTitle/PartOne
BookTitle/PartOne
BookTitle/SectionTwo
BookTitle/SectionTwo
BookTitle/SectionOne
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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