Huge encyclopaedia: The Dictionary of Christianity and the Bible

Mark,

i have completed compiling the book and followed the instructions for adding it to topic guide.

i would like to upload this book, but the button is greyed out.  Has Logos 6 already done this automatically, or is the book to large to be uploaded?

You might want to look through this forum - https://community.logos.com/forums/66.aspx

Thank you!

I downloaded the files correctly and was able to convert the dictionary when I was using Logos 5, but do to an issue I had to re-download the dictionary in Logos 6 and convert it again. But this time the conversion never finishes. It seems stuck at around 25% or so. Anyone else have this problem with personal book builder in Logos 6? Suggestions?

Thanks.

But this time the conversion never finishes. It seems stuck at around 25% or so. Anyone else have this problem with personal book builder in Logos 6? Suggestions?

My conversion is stuck at 25%. I deleted it and started over. Still no luck.

Any help?

4 hours with no movement.

My conversion is stuck at 25%. I deleted it and started over. Still no luck.

Logs?

4544.cef.zip

3107.PBB Logs.zip

So I just needed to be patient.

Thanks. I will give it all night.

I don't know if this is allowed because I've never seen anyone do it before, but I've also never seen anything that says it's not allowed - so please, report this post if this is a violation of the rules.

I am attaching a link to the fully compiled file, which can then be scanned into Logos.  You can download it here.

I'll leave this up for a few days, unless it is violating rules and gets reported.

SUCCESS at last.

Thank you very much Mark Barnes for another great contribution to Logos.

One problem I encountered was the inability to start over from scratch. The book would resume at 25% every time I tried to start over even though I had deleted it from my PB panel.

My laptop is an older (slower) one. I figure that is the main reason it took so long.

To anyone else who has yet to compile this resource; give it time. It is a BIG resource.

Mark:

Are there any plans to update this entry over time as new entries are added to Wikipedia or old entries are updated?  How many changes would there be in a five year period?  Enough to warrant an update?  Or does the new connection to Wikipedia built into LOGOS somehow make this book redundant?  

I know that older dictionaries are still valued - maybe no changes are planned.  But given the fluid nature of Wikipedia, the question does make sense.  

Thanks for any details you can provide on your plans.

I will update it from time to time. It really doesn't seem like 9 months since it was first built. I'll try and do an update before it's anniversary! It's not a huge hassle to rebuild it, but it does take several days to download and format all the articles. 

Thanks for the details.

Floyd

Thank you for your efforts, Mark! Any chance that you could share the process so that it may be replicated for Wikipedia in other languages?

I was thinking about the German Wikipedia.

I know roughly what PHP and MySQL are, but use them, I cannot. If it is straight-forward to adapt the links and categories in the script, I may be able to do that, though.

If you'd be willing to help, that would be great. No expectations, though. [:)]

Thank you for your efforts, Mark! Any chance that you could share the process so that it may be replicated for Wikipedia in other languages?

Mark,

Thanks for the great effort put out to compile the articles into a PBB.  Along the lines of the request above I was wondering if we could add another wiki source to the list. 

I am thinking of the OrthodoxWiki that is a collection of Orthodox articles.  It isn't real huge, about 4800 articles.  Might be of interest to some folks.

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Main_Page