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[Sasha Ehrenstein]

This is a very important legal issue, as I cannot enable the extension until I figure out how to remove the ability to send books created from wiki content to Pedia Press for printing for sale. 

Link to the extension on MediaWiki.org http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection

Does anyone know how to do this?  I really want users to be able to use this extension and create books from the content which will be easier to read, but it would not be legal for Pedia Press to be making money off of them.  I need to figure out how to disable this feature.

[WikiDude]

Not sure.

If your asking to "remove" it why not remove it via cPanel?

[Sove]

What license are you using? If you are using CC BY-SA, you have no legal right to prevent commercial use of the work, CC BY-NC-SA does the trick.

You should ask for help from their IRC channel mentioned on the page.

[Sasha Ehrenstein]

I don't use a free liscense.

The problem is not with me.  It's because it's a Warhammer wiki and I don't think Games Workshop would want Pedia Press to be making money printing books of people's fan created content.  They even say they don't want people paying companies to print flyers for Warhammer gaming events.

I don't currently have the extension enabled.  Some at MediaWiki suggested just doing something that would remove the link between the wiki and Pedia Press, but I'm not sure that's fool proof, and it would look pretty terrible.

[Wikkii]

I don't actually recommend using this extension, as it can cause quite high server loads while each collection is generated, particularly if there are many pages involved.

Plus, as you say, there is also the issue of Pedia Press having access to print the books.

[Sasha Ehrenstein]

I didn't install this on Wikkii, but I'll keep it in mind for the wikis I create here.  I remember someone else requested it here, and the amount of memory was a concern about it.  It's also a concern for me too, as I don't want my server getting filled up with books that people create.  I was planning on only allowing administrators to save books to counter that problem.

No problem though, I won't install Collection on any of the Wikkii wikis I run.