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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> From: Anne Gomez <agomez(a)wikimedia.org>
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> Hello offliners!
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> 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.
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> We've taken on some user research in 2 forms to support this work.
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> 1. An online usability study using
usertesting.com
> 2. An on the ground study in Pune, India
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> You can see the results from both studies here (linked in "Research
> findings"):
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_resea…
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> 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.
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> Let me know if you have any questions.
> Anne
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