Yes we have apks for the app. Am working with an organization called "health information for all" to promote distribution. Am also hoping to see organic spread. Realize that google play is blocked in China but many are also using anonymizers to get around that. This was developed in collaboration with Wikimedians in Taiwan who are also helping with distribution. Appreciate your advice / help though on other mechanisms.
James
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
James,
This is great! Thanks for sharing. The Wikipedia app for Android sees quite a lot of usage both in China and in the Chinese diaspora, so choosing the Chinese language for your second release is wise and will probably allow you to reach a broad user base.
How are you planning on getting the app distributed in China? Google Play is frequently inaccessible in China; in fact, we didn't realise China was a big market for us until we analysed our own EventLogging data rather than just looking at the statistics in Google Play. In China, distribution often relies on people uploading APKs to third-party sites. The Wikipedia app is big enough that users take care of that for us, but for this that might not be the case. Do you have any plans to investigate that?
Thanks, Dan
On 20 July 2016 at 09:01, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Hey All
Today we launched a second language of our offline medical app (Chinese). It can be downloaded from google play here <
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimedzh
.
The English version <
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimed
has now been downloaded more than 15k times with about 80% of downloads being from the developing world. The app currently only works for
android.
We hope to come out with further language versions soon. Email me if you are interested in getting involved.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JeTxBPmfeA_4CONBOguQCXYbJOgmi-Aj3yFpn6a...
Best
James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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