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 <[email protected]> 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 > > ______________________________**_________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/offline-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l> > -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation *
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