Save a wiki offline android#
Save a wiki offline Offline#
Save a wiki offline zip#
Save a wiki offline download#
Save a wiki offline free#

The main file generation option for offline Wiki content.

MW Offliner - Tool produced by Kiwix to convert MediaWiki pages to ZIM files.

The term was used both to refer to the overall feature, as well as the set of articles.

Compilation / Offline compilation - the initial placeholder name used for this feature to read ZIM files offline in the Wikipedia mobile app.

Example use in context: 'Download Wikipedia article packs to your Offline Library now for data-free access later'

Article packs - proposed name for the individual downloadable sets of articles in the ZIM format.

Save a wiki offline download#

Offline Library – proposed name for the new feature in Wikipedia mobile apps which enables users to download large 'pack' of articles for reading without needing connectivity.

Save a wiki offline zip#

A variant of the common zip compression format, specific to storing html offline.

ZIM file - The file format used to store a set of articles.

Discover whether participants find this feature useful and if they are successful in fulfilling their offline information needs.Ī second study was also conducted with other 'Active Readers' using ] for unmoderated testing.įindings and recommendations from the studies are now available at Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_research.

Hureo, a third-party user research agency, conducted a user study the initial 'V1 prototype' with participants in Pune, India. Tasks for this 'V1 prototype' are captured in the Phabricator board: V1 - User research study

Save a wiki offline android#

The Wikipedia Android team created a prototype for the core interaction flow for the Sandeep 'Browsing offline' user story. Motivation: Active Wikipedia reader in a health/medical specialist field about to experience connectivity issues Story: As a health worker going to work in an area with poor internet access, I want to still have easy access to Wikipedia for content related to my field of work in medicine. Motivation: Active app user bout to experience connectivity issues Story: As an active user going overseas where I will have no mobile data, I want to be able to continue using Wikipedia to look up interesting content related to my travel destination. Motivation: Conserve mobile data usage Story: As a user (paying a premium) to primary use Wikipedia on mobile data, I want to be able to use Wikipedia whilst conserving mobile data usage.

Save a wiki offline free#

Motivation: Browsing without an internet connection Story: As a user with limited internet connectivity except free wifi on campus, I want to continue to browse Wikipedia even when I’m offline. Michelle is part of the 'Pragmatic' personas which may be found here, with the New Reader personas available from the New Readers user personas page. The personas upon which detailed user stories are based will be Sandeep (Indian New Reader), Femi (Nigerian New Reader) and Michelle (Active Reader). Better offline capabilities may also help boost retention and uptake of mobile apps as another differentiator to the mobile web. Primarily, we want to improve the offline experience for a large number of Wikipedia users, especially new readers who often have spotty internet access and wish to save data usage. Provide the means for those without reliable sources of internet to use Wikipedia. This feature might be the same as the previous 'wikilater' project, or not. On the app side, after research was conducted using a prototype built into the Wikipedia Android app, an initial 'sideloading-only' version was released to production in February 2018. In response to New Readers research showing the need for better offline support, as well as a well-received Community Wishlist proposal, the Wikipedia Readers team is working on improving the offline user experience by adding support for loading Wikipedia articles from ZIM files. In the meantime, existing users can continue to read Wikipedia using the Kiwix app Summary Due to ongoing unresolved questions, further development of this feature has been paused, with more information available on the Phabricator task T195518. By enabling Offline Library from the app's settings, Wikipedia ZIM files detected on the device could be accessed by the app, thus allowing articles from these files to be searched and loaded instead when the user was offline. NOTE: Android test 'Offline Library' paused as of June 2018įrom February to May 2018, the Offline Library was released as an 'Easter egg' feature in the Wikipedia Android app.