Wikipedia:WikiReader/Decade Volcanoes

[edit] Scope

Title	Status
Decade Volcanoes	Good
Avachinsky	Good
Colima (volcano)	Good
Mount Etna	Reasonable
Galeras	Good
Koryaksky	Good
Mauna Loa	Needs more content
Mount Merapi	Good
Mount Nyiragongo	Good
Mount Rainier	Needs more content
Sakurajima	Good
Santamaría (volcano)	Good
Santorini	Lots of content, needs polishing
Taal Volcano	Good
Teide	Needs more content
Ulawun	Good
Mount Unzen	Good
Mount Vesuvius	Lots of content, needs polishing

Nice job! Well defined scope, organized and consistent layout, fairly complete content. If this was printed out would the link highlites be there? Not sure if thats user defined, or if two versions might be helpful (an online PDF, and one made for printed hardcopy) --Stbalbach 19:27, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment! I did wonder whether it would be better to strip out all the links. I could certainly produce a version with links and one without, but as the emphasis of WikiReaders is on them being available off-line, might be better if I just strip the links completely? I'll check and see whether some terms need explaining where the on-line version just relies on a link. Worldtraveller 00:36, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
I always feel silly saying this, but it makes a big deal to me: Everything is much more readable in a font like Arial than in Times New Roman. It'll look much sleeker and easily legible with a change. — Laura Scudder | Talk 02:18, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

No, I totally agree that font issues are a big deal! But I tried it out in Arial, and it didn't look as good to me. Anyone else got any thoughts on this? Worldtraveller 11:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

It would be nice if the link outlines were black or almost black in a print version, as it's quite disturbing to have lots of words in blue when you can't click them... It's good to keep a more subtle marker though, like a plain underline. Also, about the font: There is a large difference between screen and print. For print, it should be some kind of serif font (so, not Arial). Be sure to try and print it before you decide. — Sverdrup 11:32, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Well done. You can use Wikipedia:Stable versions to select your articles. -- Zondor 14:47, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Really fantastic. I just had a similar idea of producing pdfs of narrowly defined topics, and this is a really well done example of the concept. Agree with the above comments on links, would also try and suppress the External Links section if possible. My main motivation for this sort of project was basically holiday reading - I'm stuck on a train for 3 hours, and would like something interesting to read, so why not learn about, in this case, the Decade Volcanoes. I particularly like the fact that the process here was not "improve all the articles to some high standard, then print", but simply "collect, review, print". I'd like to see another 100-200 of these wikireaders! Stevage 09:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)