Richard James, 26/06/2018 18:36:
that's the one. Thanks Nemo
I didn't think it was available anymore. Kiwix looks interesting, although it doesn't have the same "drop out of a plane and throw away" aspect as the WikiReader
True, but nowadays Android phones are so cheap that ad hoc devices are rarely competitive... When we tried to distribute many WikiReader devices, we usually failed.
Federico
While I don’t think it’s what you are referring too, I use the Minipedia app which provides the N most popular articles in an offline format which I find useful when travelling. N is determined by how much you pay. Since it doesn’t offer to update the collection, I presume the articles are some years old but I don’t find it a problem in practice when I just want to learn something about Swaziland for example. I don’t think Minipedia has anything to do with WMF other than legitimately reusing its content.
Kerry
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On 26 Jun 2018, at 5:41 pm, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Richard James, 26/06/2018 18:36:
that's the one. Thanks Nemo I didn't think it was available anymore. Kiwix looks interesting, although it doesn't have the same "drop out of a plane and throw away" aspect as the WikiReader
True, but nowadays Android phones are so cheap that ad hoc devices are rarely competitive... When we tried to distribute many WikiReader devices, we usually failed.
Federico
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