Wiki-to-print

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About wiki-to-print

Wiki-to-print is a collective publishing environment based on MediaWiki software[1], Paged Media CSS[2] techniques and the JavaScript library Paged.js[3], which renders a preview of the PDF in the browser. Using wiki-to-print allows us to work shoulder-to-shoulder as collaborative writers, editors, designers, developers, in a non-linear publishing workflow where design and content unfolds at the same time, allowing the one to shape the other.

Following the idea of "boilerplate code" which is written to be reused, we like to think of wiki-to-print as a boilerplate as well, instead of thinking of it as a product, platform or tool. The code that is running in the background is a version of previous wiki-printing instances, including:

  • the work on the Diversions[4] publications by Constant[5] and OSP[6]
  • the book Volumetric Regimes[7] by Possible Bodies[8] and Manetta Berends[9]
  • TITiPI's[10] wiki-to-pdf environments[11] by Martino Morandi
  • Hackers and Designers'[12] version wiki2print[13] that was produced for the book Making Matters[14]

So, wiki-to-print/wiki-to-pdf/wiki2print is not standalone, but part of a continuum of projects that see software as something to learn from, adapt, transform and change. You can find the code of the version that is running on this wiki here[15].

This wiki-to-print is hosted at CC[16] (creative crowds). While moving from cloud to crowds, CC is a thinking device for us how to hand over ways of working and share a space for publishing experiments with others.

  1. ↑ https://www.mediawiki.org
  2. ↑ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/
  3. ↑ https://pagedjs.org
  4. ↑ https://diversions.constantvzw.org
  5. ↑ https://constantvzw.org
  6. ↑ https://osp.kitchen
  7. ↑ http://data-browser.net/db08.html + https://volumetricregimes.xyz
  8. ↑ https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org
  9. ↑ https://manettaberends.nl
  10. ↑ http://titipi.org
  11. ↑ https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki-to-pdf
  12. ↑ https://hackersanddesigners.nl
  13. ↑ https://github.com/hackersanddesigners/wiki2print
  14. ↑ https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Publishing/p/Making_Matters._A_Vocabulary_of_Collective_Arts
  15. ↑ https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/wiki-to-print
  16. ↑ https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org

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Links to get started with

Wiki-to-print boilerplates

Created wiki-to-print environments

These are some wiki-to-print environments that have been used so far:

Publications made with wiki-to-print

wiki-to-print log

See the issue tracker of the git repository: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/wiki-to-print/issues

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