Greetings All,
Today we enabled openZim (http://openzim.org/Main_Page) export to the existing PediaPress collections extension on English Wikipedia and numerous others. In addition to PDF and ODF, you will now see a new export option when browsing the Download section of the Manage Book interface. You can then easily take these files and use them with the Kiwix offline reader (http://kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page).
We'd love to get some help testing to find bugs and receive feedback. Give the tool a go and let us know what you think!
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ under
Product: MediaWiki extensions Component: Collection
You can also note your thoughts on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collections/openZim and we'll move them over to Bugzilla.
For those following our offline developments this is the first part of our push into new tools mentioned at http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/
Come help us make the others a success. Thanks to both Heiko and Volker for their work in making this project successful.
--tomasz