—fyi— Best Regards, Rajeeb Dutta. (U: Marajozkee) (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity)
Begin forwarded message: > From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattachar...@wikimedia.org> > Date: 10 September 2020 at 12:19:27 PM IST > To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Wikipedia mobile app now available for KaiOS > phones > Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list > <wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Hi everyone, > > There is now an additional way to browse Wikipedia in India! We are happy to > confirm that the Wikipedia app is available on the top 3 mobile phone > operating system platforms in India - Android, iOS and newly KaiOS, which is > provided through Jiophones [1]. Jiophone users can download and install the > Wikipedia app on the JioStore. > > This first release is focused on how to make it easier to read Wikipedia on a > phone that does not have a touch screen. The platform supports over 100 > languages for reading, and we appreciate that volunteers have fully > translated the Wikipedia app user interface into five Indian languages so > far: Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Odia, and Punjabi. The app will continue to > have updates and reach more countries over time. > > If you (or someone you know) own a Jiophone, please give the app a try by > downloading it from the JioStore. We would like to hear about your experience > with it. Let us know about issues or bugs through the in-app feedback > feature, through the project talk page [2], or through Phabricator [3]. > > To enable the app to reach readers in even more Indian languages, we would > greatly appreciate additional translations of the user interface on > Translatewiki.net [4]. > > To know more about the app and our work, and why we believe this project is > so important to help us reach new users, you can see the main page for the > app [5] and the Questions and Answers page [6]. We welcome your comments, > suggestions, and feedback on the related talk page [2]. > > Lastly, please, do share this message on other venues of interest for > community members in India. > > Kind regards, > > Angie Muigai, Lead Product Manager > Runa Bhattacharjee, Engineering Director > (on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Inuka team[7]) > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jio#JioPhone > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_for_KaiOS > [3] > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=kaios-wikipedia-app > [4] > https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&group=wikimedia-mobile-wikipedia-kaios-strings#sortable:3=desc > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS/FAQ > [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Inuka_team > > -- > best regards, > Runa Bhattacharjee (she/her) > Director Engineering, Language and Inuka > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20200910/dc99702e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list Wikimedia-in-WB@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb
