Wikipedia para KaiOS
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Wikipedia for KaiOS
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Em linha com a missão de tornar a soma de todos os conhecimentos gratuita para todos, o Inuka team está construindo um aplicativo da Wikipedia para usuários do KaiOS. KaiOS é um sistema operacional para dispositívo móvel basedo no Linux. Ele oferece recursos inteligentes para telefones característicos, permitindo o uso de aplicativos. Esses telefones vêm com recursos de computação limitados, teclas de hardware e uma tela pequena. Ele traz aplicativos populares como YouTube, Twitter e WhatsApp para usuários que não poderiam comprar um smartphone.
O KaiOS é usado em 100 milhões de dispositivos em todo o mundo, a maioria dos quais usam o JioPhone na Índia. A equipe Inuka realizou uma pesquisa qualitativa na Índia para entender por que e como esses usuários usam esses celulares. Aprendemos que os usuários optam por comprar esses telefones porque eles são acessíveis e permitem o acesso a aplicativos como os smartphones fazem. Também aprendemos os desafios que eles enfrentam ao tentar ler a Wikipedia no navegador móvel nativo. Os desafios incluíam a capacidade de rolar pelo conteúdo, o tamanho do texto na tela, a pesquisa de conteúdo e a falta de consciência de que o conteúdo da Wikipedia está disponível em vários idiomas.
Desafio de design
Os celulares com KaiOS possuem uma tela pequena de 2,8 polegadas sem sensibilidade ao toque. Ao projetar o aplicativo, tivemos que considerar como apresentaríamos as informações da Wikipedia na tela pequena de uma forma que proporcionasse uma boa experiência de leitura para o público-alvo.
Para a primeira versão, a equipe queria ter certeza de que os usuários seriam capazes de ler e pesquisar artigos da Wikipedia em seu idioma de escolha. No projeto e na engenharia, consideramos como os usuários seriam apresentados à Wikipedia, como eles descobrem os artigos e como navegam facilmente nos artigos.
Recursos destacados
Fluxo de integração
A pesquisa mostrou que, na Índia e em outras partes dos mercados emergentes, há pouca divulgação da Wikipedia. Queríamos concentrar a experiência de integração na definição do que é a Wikipedia em uma linguagem simples para um usuário que pode ou não ter usado a Wikipedia antes.
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.
Wikipedia for KaiOS Version 1.6.0
The Version 1.6.0 was released in early 2021 with:
- A content engagement experiment: half of the users in Nigeria, Uganda, Pakistan and Tanzania will see a feature that shows a daily refreshed list of Trending articles in their country
- Ability to share an article URL
- No QuickFacts button from article actions
- Improved localization
App reach
Growing app usage
As part of the Wikimedia Foundation's partnership with KaiOS, in January 2021 we began running advertisements to increase the visibility and downloads of the Wikipedia app on the KaiOS platform. As most KaiOS adopters are first-time internet users, they are far less likely to know that Wikipedia exists—let alone use it on a regular basis.
KaiOS regularly displays small banner ads to their phone users while they are browsing the internet, and we are using their standard process for placing our ads. Each of our banner ads are composed of two parts:
- A short message about Wikipedia
- A button that brings users to Wikipedia's listing in the KaiOS app store where they have the option to download it
These ads are running globally in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic, languages which cover approximately 90% of KaiOS's current userbase. No ads are or will be run on the KaiOS Wikipedia app.
Perguntas frequentes
Em caso de dúvidas visite a página FAQ.
Como contribuir
Você pode contribuir com traduções em seu idioma em translatewiki.net.
Nossa código base está localizada em https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-kaios
Status Updates
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
- Content engagement experience based on showing readers top read content in their country increased engagement with content by 15% overall.
Q3 2020/2021
- 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.
Q2 2020/2021
- 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
Q1 2020/2021
- 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
Q4 2019/2020
- 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