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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Patrice Khawam <[email protected]> >> 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 <[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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Offline-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >> >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Atul >> >> www.atuljha.com >> >> irc(freenode) : koolhead17 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l -- Christoph Kepper PediaPress GmbH Boppstraße 64 55118 Mainz Phone: +49 (0)6131 3271809 _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
