Wikipedia for KaiOS/hi

Wikipedia for KAIOS is a Wikipedia reading app for smart feature phones that the Inuka team started developing in 2019 to avail Wikipedia content on 4G smart, feature phones, and bridge the digital divide through worldwide readership across many parts of emerging markets, specifically India. We released in 2 versions - 1) for India (due to a separate app store and device variations), 2) for rest of the world

Background
सभी ज्ञान को सभी के लिए मुफ्त बनाने के मिशन के अनुरूप, KaiOS उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए एक विकिपीडिया ऐप बना रहा है। KaiOS लिनक्स पर आधारित एक मोबाइल ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम है। KaiOS लिंक्स पर एक मोबाइल ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम आधारित है। ये फ़ोन सीमित कंप्यूटिंग क्षमताओं, हार्डवेयर कुंजियों और छोटे स्क्रीन डिस्प्ले के साथ आते हैं। यह यूट्यूब, ट्विटर और व्हाट्सप्प जैसे लोकप्रिय ऐप उन उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए लाता है जो स्मार्टफोन खरीदने में सक्षम नहीं होंगे।

दुनिया भर में 160 मिलियन उपकरणों पर काईओएस का उपयोग किया जाता है, जिसमें लगभग 100 मिलियन सक्रिय उपयोगकर्ता हैं, जिनमें से अधिकांश भारत में जियोफोन हैं।

Goals & Objectives

 * Increase adoption and engagement with Wikipedia content for readers in Emerging Markets and grow readership.

Assumptions & Hypothesis

 * If we develop a custom Wikipedia experience for the KaiOS platform for emerging markets this will lead to content engagement and awareness.

Design Research

 * इनुका टीम ने यह समझने के लिए भारत में गुणात्मक शोध चलाया कि ये उपयोगकर्ता इन फ़ोनों का उपयोग क्यों और कैसे करते हैं। हमें पता चला है कि उपयोगकर्ताओं ने इन फ़ोनों को खरीदना इसलिए चुना क्योंकि वे सस्ते हैं और स्मार्टफ़ोन जैसे ऐप्स तक पहुंच की अनुमति देते हैं। हमने मूल मोबाइल ब्राउज़र के भीतर विकिपीडिया को पढ़ने की कोशिश में आने वाली चुनौतियों के बारे में भी जाना। चुनौतियों में सामग्री के माध्यम से स्क्रॉल करने की क्षमता, स्क्रीन पर पाठ का आकार, सामग्री की खोज और जागरूकता की कमी शामिल है कि विकिपीडिया सामग्री कई भाषाओं में उपलब्ध है।



फ़ीचर हाइलाइट्स
KaiOS फोन में एक छोटा, 2.8 इंच डिस्प्ले, नॉन-टच स्क्रीन है। ऐप को डिजाइन करने में, हमें इस बात पर विचार करना था कि हम विकिपीडिया से जानकारी को छोटे स्क्रीन आकार पर कैसे प्रस्तुत करेंगे जो लक्षित दर्शकों के लिए एक अच्छा पढ़ने का अनुभव प्रदान करेगा। पहले संस्करण के लिए, टीम यह सुनिश्चित करना चाहती थी कि उपयोगकर्ता अपनी पसंद की भाषा में विकिपीडिया लेखों को पढ़ने और खोजने में सक्षम हों। डिजाइन और इंजीनियरिंग में, हमने विचार किया कि कैसे उपयोगकर्ताओं को विकिपीडिया से परिचित कराया जाएगा, वे लेखों की खोज कैसे करेंगे, और वे लेखों के भीतर आसानी से कैसे नेविगेट करेंगे।



ऑनबोर्डिंग प्रवाह
शोध से पता चला है कि भारत में और उभरते बाजारों के अन्य हिस्सों में विकिपीडिया के बारे में जागरूकता कम है। हम ऑनबोर्डिंग अनुभव को उस उपयोगकर्ता के लिए सरल भाषा में परिभाषित करने पर ध्यान केंद्रित करना चाहते थे जो पहले विकिपीडिया का उपयोग कर सकता था या नहीं कर सकता था।

Page by page scrolling
Wikipedia articles, at least the really good ones, are relatively long. In our research, users indicated that they found it frustrating to scroll down with the hardware keys as it needed many key presses. We have introduced page by page scrolling, that allows a user to read the article as if they were reading a book, rather than scrolling pixel by pixel.

Language choice and selection
Research has also shown that it is not easy to discover the languages that Wikipedias are available in, particularly in Emerging Markets. We have placed the option to change language where a reader can always see it.

Table of contents
Similar to the Android and iOS apps for Wikipedia, we wanted to give users the functionality to be able to quickly switch to the sections of interest within an article

Article Quick links
At the start of an article, we provided quick links for users to choose how they would like to navigate - they can choose to:


 * see the sections of an article,
 * read quick facts (which is the content in the infobox),
 * See a gallery of images in an article
 * Switch the language of the article
 * Go directly to read the article summary

App availability
The first version of the app was released on 9th September 2020 in India. The app was released to KaiOS users on 7th December 2020. Readers can find the Wikipedia app in the JioStore in India and in the KaiStore in all parts of the world where KaiOS phones are available.

Edit functionality
For the first version, the app does not support editing. Editing articles in the form factor of the KaiOS phone is complex, time-consuming and likely to lead to errors. We are following the work of other teams at WMF, who are working on allowing micro contributions through phones, and plan to provide editing capability in future releases. Editing Wikipedia is still available on the native mobile browser.

Enhanced search function
KaiOS search function allows all words in a user's search query to show results.

Partnerships
We partnered with Jio  in India and KAIOS for non-India market to meet the digital divide in emerging markets and align with the Foundation’s medium and long term plans towards worldwide readership.As a 4G enabled device, their smart feature phones are specifically created for people currently on 2G devices who cannot afford smartphones or the plans that come with them. Even with internet accessibility growing in many parts of emerging markets, we could reach billions of people who are unable to afford smartphones. KaiOS phones were an affordable option to access the internet, and as a result, Wikipedia content if structured right.

Product Feedback
Positive feedback


 * Good app for  for study
 * Best app for exploring the world to politicians and film actors
 * Gaining knowledge from the app
 * nice to have information in wikipedia because when we search for some for telugu language wikipedia we are getting problems in searching

Suggested improvements


 * Adding voice search for people who don’t know english or typing
 * There is no search option
 * Editing option
 * Add more articles
 * Add a short video for description along with related article
 * Change the language to Hindi only
 * How to create articles in Wikipedia
 * How to download images and information
 * How to play games in Wikipedia
 * Incorrect results when when searching

Lessons Learnt

 * 1) Approach to Partnerships: To continuously monitor market share and trends that could affect product adoption.
 * 2) Approach to Product Experiments: Exploring ways to productize the app once there's a clear product-market-fit. In the context of the KaiOS homepage suggestions experiment, we tested adding country-specific trending articles to our basic homepage (containing just a search bar). We could have explored adding content to the page (like a standard global list of most-read content).

FAQs
Please visit the FAQ page.

How to contribute
You can contribute translations in your language on translatewiki.net.

Our code base is located at https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-kaios

Q1 2022/2023

 * On 26th September, Wikipedia app v1.8.1.0 was published on JioStore for all the JioPhone models (JioPhone1,2 and JPV users).

Q4 2020/2021

Q3 2020/2021 Q2 2020/2021 Q1 2020/2021 Q4 2019/2020
 * Content engagement experience based on showing readers top read content in their country increased engagement with content by 15% overall.
 * Release version 1.6.0 to the KaiStore that introduced the ability to share an article URL, migration to our new analytics service and improved localization.
 * Launched a content engagement experience in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Pakistan, showing readers top read Wikipedia content in their country on the app homepage.
 * Release the Wikipedia app for KaiOS on the KaiStore, to users around the world where KaiOS phones are available
 * Run a usability study in India where we learned of the challenges users were facing within the app. The main areas for improvement were in the search experience, and simplifying the onboarding process and allowing easier use of the feature that allows changing text size
 * Had 1.6 million app downloads at the end of Q2
 * Released the first version of the Wikipedia app to KaiOS users in India who use JioPhones.
 * Introduced support for RTL languages
 * Updated copy for onboarding
 * Improved image gallery
 * Performance and security optimizations
 * Introduced a feature where when KaiOS users in India want to select their preferred language, regional languages are shown first on the list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247255
 * Fixes to support how the app works on Jiophone 2 which has a qwerty keyboard rather than a candybar keyboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248285 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248443  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250642
 * Allow users to provide feedback from within the app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236317