On June 10th we at Wikipedia launch the first version of our offline medical app. This is an easy to download offline version of all of English Wikipedia’s medical content for android avaliable for free at Google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimed
The version is 466M and includes images. We plan to update it monthly and will be adding further language versions soon. We are also looking at a version without images to decrease the apps size and a version for Apple devices. We would encourage cell phone manufacturers to consider preloading this content onto devices before they ship them to the developing world. We would also encourage individuals and organization to join us in developing and improving the underlying content.
We view this as an important complement to Wikipedia zero, which currently provides access without data charges to 400 million people in the developing world. We realize that not all areas of the world have cellular access and not all carriers have signed up to free Wikipedia. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Starting July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation
My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF
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