Hi all,
          The Android market has an offline Wiki reader application capable of reading ZIM files (http://bit.ly/I2I3Ix). Currently, it houses ArchWiki and is built using zimreader-java (http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/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@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@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Patrice Khawam <patrice@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@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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