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I used to do that a year or two ago and it was pretty straightforward back than (there was Export to epub link or something like this on the left pane of a Wikipedia page). Not any more! Currently, there are two options for export in the book creator, namely, pdf and plain text (only pdf for single article).
What is worse I did not manage to find any clear info on why it is not there. The article at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools#PDF.2C_EPub.2C_Odt_and_LaTeX mentions it is still possible to produce epubs and re-directs to some weird page.
Do I miss anything obvious or they really disabled this useful functionality for good?
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The missing features are available form the following website
mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/
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This might not address your specific question, but I suspect that what you really want is a way to read Wikipedia articles offline on your mobile device.
I recommend the app Offline Browser app and if you have a paid subscription, you can also use Evernote. There are many other similar apps, but I think Offline Browser is the best.
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There is an extension for Firefox called GrabMyBooks that can convert any webpage to .epub format.
It seems to me that it was also available for Chrome, but I'm not entirely sure, maybe I'm wrong.
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This feature was removed as the result of changes of the mwlib that was used for export to ocg that has better support for non-latin scripts for PDF files.
In the process EPUB export was disabled, probably because the ocg library renders to images via LaTeX (that is a guess, I have not looked at the details).
The announcement for the change was made on the wikitech mailing list,
As part of this change, we will disable ZIM and EPUB export for the
time being. If you're interested in working on ZIM or EPUB support for
the new offline content generator, or other export formats, please let
us know via the above channels.
and it looks like it has not come back yet.
What that "weird" page does is take the source of the wikipedia page, which has the page description, and tries to render it to ePub. That should give better results than e.g. starting with the HTML version or the rendered PDF. I normally caution to not use such cloud based rendering services, but since the input you feed it is public anyway, you won't have to fear that the data you upload there gets stored for further use by the website owner.
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