Hello offliners!
The Foundation has been working on building in support for ZIM files to the
Android App for Wikipedia. We're been in touch with Emmanuel quite a bit
about how this might work.
We've taken on some user research in 2 forms to support this work.
1. An online usability study using
usertesting.com
2. An on the ground study in Pune, India
You can see the results from both studies here (linked in "Research
findings"):
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_resea…
The biggest takeaways that I think will be interesting to you folks are
around size and topic of content. Respondents are largely uninterested in
large file sizes (over 100MB) and would prefer that these files be very
topic specific. These are people working from their own Android phones, who
have connectivity at least some of the time.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Anne
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