Bookshelf combines wiki pages to create books with a chapter navigation. The book or book chapters can then be exported (for example with Extension:PDFCreator).

• Sets of different pages (chapters) can be put together individually to create a book.
• The table of contents of the book is displayed in the left navigation bar.
• The chapters are displayed in a collapsible tree structure.
• The book or parts of the book can be exported to PDF.
• Some aspects of this extension can be customized in the configuration management.

• 👁 Bookshelf thumbnail with user actions
  
  Bookshelf thumbnail with user actions
• 👁 Action "Create new book"
  
  Action "Create new book"
• 👁 Create book dialog window
  
  Create book dialog window
• 👁 Drag-and-drop chapter editor
  
  Drag-and-drop chapter editor

Books have the following characteristics:

• On book pages, the book navigation is displayed instead of the standard navigation.
• The book chapter levels can be created with a visual drag-and-drop interface.
• A wiki page can be in multiple books. If a page is in multiple books, the book navigation shows a dropdown menu that allows to switch between these books.
• Books can be printed completely or partially as a PDF with a cover sheet.
• Books can be grouped into individual bookshelves.

Wiki administrators can configure the following settings:

• Show a chapter pager before or after the page content.
• Show book chapter numbers in table of contents and headlines.
• Use display title from book source on article.
• Set the default export template for books.

• Add the repo url (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-BlueSpiceBookshelf

.git) as a "vcs repository" and the package name (mediawiki/BlueSpiceBookshelf) and version to the require section of your composer.local.json. Example:

{
"repositories":[
{
"type":"vcs",
"url":"https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-BlueSpiceBookshelf
.git"
}
],
"require":{
"mediawiki/BlueSpiceBookshelf":"BlueSpiceBookshelf"
}
}

• Run the following command in your MediaWiki installation path

composer update --no-dev

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

wfLoadExtension( 'BlueSpiceBookshelf' );

• 👁 Yes
  Done Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

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