Hi all,
The Android market has an offline Wiki reader application capable
of reading ZIM files (
). Currently, it houses ArchWiki
and is built using zimreader-java (
).
I haven't tried it out myself, but it should be feasible to build a
similiar one for Wikipedia as well.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Christoph Kepper <
christoph.kepper(a)pediapress.com> wrote:
How about using EPUB as a format?
EPUB is an open standard and there are quite a few free ePUB readers for
most platforms (including Symbian). Non-Latin scripts would be handled by
the client and there would be no need to develop new clients.
We (PediaPress) have a working prototype for ePUB export via the
collection extension. However, EPUB export has only been tested with
collections of a few thousand articles. Essentially, it should be possible
to generate EPUB files containing all articles of even the biggest
wikipedia projects - but this might need some more work.
Christoph
Am 17.04.2012 um 09:20 schrieb Shahid Farooqui:
Hi..
Yes, we are looking for offline wikipedia in several regional Indian
languages for our 50$ Akaash tablet. We want offline content to be
shipped with the device.
I already had few conversation with Emmanuel Engelhart in this regard,
I am waiting for a fruitful solution from him soon.
Thanks & Regards
Shahid
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:23 PM, atul jha <koolhead17(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Patrice Khawam <patrice(a)wikipock.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> That's exactly what
www.wikipock.com provides. Preloaded microSD card
>> with Wikipedia + a native Android app.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia-inc.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm particularly interested in availability of Wikipedia on memory
cards
>>> and
>>> the like. This is for a relatively small language, so extremely large
>>> size
>>> isn't the issue.
>>>
>>> I'm wanting to know if there is a way to distribute Wikipedia in a
small
>>> language on memory cards for android
phones. This is for people for
>>> whom
>>> data service is not available or cost prohibitive, and who may not
have
>>> access to a computer for transfer.
Physical distribution of cards is
>>> something that could be done.
>>>
>>> --Jimbo
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> I suppose this was one of the key requirement
> from
http://www.sakshat.ac.in/ , they wanted something similar for the
50$
> tablet Akash they are shipping in india. They
wanted offline content to
be
shipped
with the device.
I am sure they contacted folks from the list on same.
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