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Best Regards, Rajeeb Dutta. (U: Marajozkee) (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity)

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From: Runa Bhattacharjee rbhattacharjee@wikimedia.org Date: 10 September 2020 at 12:19:27 PM IST To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Wikipedia mobile app now available for KaiOS phones Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

 Hi everyone,

There is now an additional way to browse Wikipedia in India! We are happy to confirm that the Wikipedia app is available on the top 3 mobile phone operating system platforms in India - Android, iOS and newly KaiOS, which is provided through Jiophones [1]. Jiophone users can download and install the Wikipedia app on the JioStore.

This first release is focused on how to make it easier to read Wikipedia on a phone that does not have a touch screen. The platform supports over 100 languages for reading, and we appreciate that volunteers have fully translated the Wikipedia app user interface into five Indian languages so far: Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Odia, and Punjabi. The app will continue to have updates and reach more countries over time.

If you (or someone you know) own a Jiophone, please give the app a try by downloading it from the JioStore. We would like to hear about your experience with it. Let us know about issues or bugs through the in-app feedback feature, through the project talk page [2], or through Phabricator [3].

To enable the app to reach readers in even more Indian languages, we would greatly appreciate additional translations of the user interface on Translatewiki.net [4].

To know more about the app and our work, and why we believe this project is so important to help us reach new users, you can see the main page for the app [5] and the Questions and Answers page [6]. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and feedback on the related talk page [2].

Lastly, please, do share this message on other venues of interest for community members in India.

Kind regards,

Angie Muigai, Lead Product Manager Runa Bhattacharjee, Engineering Director (on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Inuka team[7])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jio#JioPhone [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_for_KaiOS [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=kaios-wik... [4] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&group=... [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS/FAQ [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Inuka_team

-- best regards, Runa Bhattacharjee (she/her) Director Engineering, Language and Inuka Wikimedia Foundation

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