AFAIK, there isn't way to be doing this yet for Android -- but the mobile team is currently working on building out the functionality for this in the Android PhoneGap application.

This is a great initiative, though, and something that is being experimented with on a few Linux tablets. These tablets have an offline Wikipedia stored on the SD card, which is then read by the application Kiwix[1] which is already installed on the low-memory device.

Jessie

[1] www.kiwix.org

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales@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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