Cross-post.
-Adam
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From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:16 PM
Subject: Demo of offline in the Wikipedia for Android app
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all -
I wanted to share a cool demo with you recorded by Dmitry Brant from the
apps team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Dmitry demos an alpha version of the
app that adds support for offline ZIM files.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESP20HGPiE
The feature will be undergoing some changes based on the research Dmitry
mentions. To learn more about the research Dmitry mentions in the video,
see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_
support/V1_User_research.
Enjoy!
-Adam
I would agree that among the general public size below 100 mbs is
desired. Among professionals in a specific topic area I bet the
pattern will be different as we have nearly 100 K active users of the
offline medical apps.
James
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> Hello offliners!
>
> The Foundation has been working on building in support for ZIM files to the
> Android App for Wikipedia. We're been in touch with Emmanuel quite a bit
> about how this might work.
>
> We've taken on some user research in 2 forms to support this work.
>
> 1. An online usability study using usertesting.com
> 2. An on the ground study in Pune, India
>
> You can see the results from both studies here (linked in "Research
> findings"):
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_resea…
>
> The biggest takeaways that I think will be interesting to you folks are
> around size and topic of content. Respondents are largely uninterested in
> large file sizes (over 100MB) and would prefer that these files be very
> topic specific. These are people working from their own Android phones, who
> have connectivity at least some of the time.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
> Anne
>
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Hello offliners!
The Foundation has been working on building in support for ZIM files to the
Android App for Wikipedia. We're been in touch with Emmanuel quite a bit
about how this might work.
We've taken on some user research in 2 forms to support this work.
1. An online usability study using usertesting.com
2. An on the ground study in Pune, India
You can see the results from both studies here (linked in "Research
findings"):
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_resea…
The biggest takeaways that I think will be interesting to you folks are
around size and topic of content. Respondents are largely uninterested in
large file sizes (over 100MB) and would prefer that these files be very
topic specific. These are people working from their own Android phones, who
have connectivity at least some of the time.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Anne
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate
<http://donate.wikimedia.org>. *
We have finalized and tested the image for the alpha version of
internet-in-a-box. We have purchased 100 units which should be shipped
in the next couple of days. Final cost comes in at $33CAD / $27USD per
unit. They contain all of WPs healthcare content in English, Arabic,
and Spanish plus the ability to download our offline medical apps to
your phone. Additional content include practical action, medical
videos by healthphone, and openstreetmaps.
Hopefully shipping within two weeks. Pre-orders here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmSX2TOhwAhIRCGfkIv2Don5o58vVcv5q…
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Hello y'all,
Quick announcement: we're putting a small grant request with the
Wikimedia Foundation [1]: the overall goal is to improve our user
experience, starting with the long overdue desktop UX/UI revamp.
All comments (and endorsements) are welcome; and if you know a great
UX/UI engineer, let us know!
Stephane
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Kiwix/User_Experience