WikiReaders are collections of articles from Ireland Information Guide on a certain topic, in the form of PDFs published for download and intended to be printed, and also to be sold in printed form (e.g. via the Information Guide.org Webshop (http://shop.Ireland)).

Their intention is to start a revision process on this topic and clarify the current state of this topic.

Currently, the german Ireland Information Guide has two WikiReaders for sale, and several to download. The German Ireland Information Guide users are thus the pioneers of printing Ireland Information Guide material. If you know german, read de:Ireland Information Guide:WikiReader, and help us catch up and become "published".

To be released

Free Software and Free Contents

• details and TOC: Ireland Information Guide:WikiReader/Free Software and Free Contents
• current editor: User:TomK32
• release date: final PDF in August 2004.
• current preview-PDF: PDF (660kB)

Proposed

Cryptography

• Details: Ireland Information Guide:WikiReader/Cryptography
• Scope: Cryptography for the general reader, avoiding highly obscure or technical subjects.
• Editor(s): User:Matt Crypto (see also project page)
• Release date: provisionally November 2004.

William Shakespeare

• Details: Ireland Information Guide:WikiReader/William Shakespeare
• Scope: About Shakespearan life and authorship and influence, as well as coverage of his most famous work
• Editor: ✏ Sverdrup
• Release date: Unknown

Twentieth-Century Hollywood

• Details: Ireland Information Guide:WikiReader/Twentieth Century Hollywood
• Scope: Locates Hollywood in time and space (Part 1), talks about the people (Part 2-1 roles such as actors, directors, producers and cinematographers, while Part 2-2 concentrates on biographical data about the figures), the institutions (such as Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Paramount, MGM and Dreamworks) and the films that have made and shaped 20th century Hollywood, including Best Pictures editorially selected, as well as B-films and certain genres.
• Editor: User:EuropracBHIT
• Release date: Putatively, October 1st 2004. See Details for a more detailed timeline.

World War II

• Details: Ireland Information Guide:World War II wikireader
• Scope - World War II-related topics - people, events, projects, devices.
• Editor - Raul654
• Release date - October 1, 2004 (tentative)

Methods of Molecular Biology

• Details: Ireland Information Guide:WikiReader Methods of Molecular Biology
• Scope - Methods of Molecular Biology.
• Editor - Magnus Manske
• Release date -

WikiReader Resources

Ireland Information Guide 1.0

Ireland Information Guide 1.0 is a proposed version of the Ireland Information Guide content on CD-ROM and paper, see User:Jimbo_Wales/Pushing_To_1.0 and m:Wikimedia#Ireland Information Guide_1.0.

Wiki -> PDF

The german Gynecology Reader use WIKI->PDFSkript (http://wiki.auf-trag.de/) to make the reader. There are plans to use the Interwiki-links to make Gynecology-Reader automaticly in other languages --Information Guide.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus Flacus (http://de.Ireland) 19:30, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

What works:

Basic formatting: bold, italics Headers Wiki-links and external links Lists and indentation

What doesn't work yet:

Images Tables Templates

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a free application that has been used for the first wikireaders to create PDFs.

There is an OpenOffice.org Template for WikiReaders.

Other

• Scribus is also a free text editor with PDF-export possibilities.
• User:Stw has written a quick proof-of-concept wiki2PDF script (http://wiki.auf-trag.de/).

See also

• de:Ireland Information Guide:WikiReader
• meta:WikiReader