User:Elgaard/wishlist

My wichlist that I think would make Wikivoyage more usefull (apart from working on the destinations of course)

Printing, per destination

 * Bigger maps. The maps are way too small when you are under a lamppost on a dark rainy day. There is no "enlarge" button on paper. Either we should just make all maps bigger, or change the MW software so that printed maps are bigger than on the screen.


 * Better printed resolution Currently the resolution is set to work for currents monitors. Paper has a much higher resoultion (typically at least 7000x5000 per sheet). Printed images should be based on the the full-size image. Maps should converted directly from SVG to postscript or printer-pixels.

This is a common problem for printing and electronic offline use. The script on User:(WT-en) Elgaard sort of works, but the isin template seems like a better way. Maybe even combined with the geo template.
 * Selecting articles for printing and offline use


 * offline electronic use. There are many formats. The simplest is probably HTML. wget works perfect except that the "edit" links are a bit annoying on a small screen when offline.


 * offline paper use. Given that we already can select the destinations/articles to print, there are two problems:


 * Ordering. We should have a policy like. Phrasebooks first, then the rest depth-first, on the same level sorted north-to south, east to west. Maybe using some hinting templates.


 * * Printing. The moditied html2ps almost works, but still not good enough e.g. most charater sets are not supported. Parsewiki also does not quite work. Wikimedia has a page-template, that could be used to generate books dynamically, but that does not seem to work on Wikivoyage. Especially we have to allow more than one article on a page and still handle page-breaks in nice way.