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Wikipedia for KaiOS Wikipedia mobile app for the KaiOS operating system
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In line with the mission to make the sum of all knowledge free to all, the Inuka team is building a Wikipedia app for KaiOS users.KaiOS is a mobile operating system based on Linux.It gives smart-like capabilities to feature phones by enabling the use of apps.These phones come with limited computing capabilities, hardware keys, and a small screen display.It brings popular apps like YouTube, Twitter and WhatsApp to users who wouldn’t be able to afford a smartphone.
KaiOS is used on 100 million devices around the world, most of which are Jiophones in India.The Inuka team ran qualitative research in India to understand why and how these users use these phones.We learnt that users chose to purchase these phones because they're affordable and allow access to apps like smartphones do.We also learned the challenges they face trying to read Wikipedia within the native mobile browser.Challenges included ability to scroll through content, text size on the screen, searching for content and lack of awareness that Wikipedia content is available in multiple languages.
Design challenge[edit]
KaiOS phones have a small, 2.8 inch display, non-touch screen.In designing the app, we had to consider how we would present information from Wikipedia on the small screen size in a way that would provide a good reading experience for the target audience.
For the first version, the team wanted to make sure that users would be able to read and search for Wikipedia articles in their language of choice.In the design and engineering, we considered how users would be introduced to Wikipedia, how they discover articles, and how they navigate easily within articles.
Feature highlights[edit]
Onboarding flow[edit]
Research showed that, in India and other parts of emerging markets, there is low awareness of Wikipedia.We wanted to focus the onboarding experience on defining what Wikipedia is in simple language to a user who may or may not have used Wikipedia before.
Page by page scrolling[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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.
Known issues[edit]
The following limitations and known issues apply to the first release, V 1.0.0:
- RTL languages are not yet fully supported. Will be supported for the next release
- Translations for the UI not fully completed for several languages
App reach[edit]
Growing app usage[edit]
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.
FAQs[edit]
Please visit the FAQ page.
How to contribute[edit]
You can contribute translations in your language on translatewiki.net.
Our code base is located at https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-kaios
Sony corporation has announced that 360 Reality Audio, an immersive audio experience utilizing object-based spatial audio technology will be available for the public coming this late fall 2019. Listeners in the United States, Europe and a few other locations will be able to listen to approximately 1000 songs at launch from many popular artists such as Mark Ronson and Pharrell Williams.
Song introduced this technology early this year at CES 2019. It generated quite a bit of buzz among industry artists and artists who was interested in exploring this new tech. Object-based spatial audio technology makes it possible for artists and music creators to produce a music experience by mapping sound sources such as vocals, chorus and instruments with positional information and placing them within a spherical space centered around the user.
Initially, 360 Reality Audio will feature approximately 1000 songs. More music is scheduled to be added from Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. The service will also feature more than 100 songs recorded from an array of concerts by performers such as CHARLI XCX and Kodaline.
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The technology will be streamed through a variety of music streaming services, namely Amazon Music HD, Deezer, nugs.net, TIDAL with support for Napster coming later. Users will need a paid subscription on all these streaming services. 360 Reality audio will use an international open standard MPEG-H 3D Audio as its audio format.
Users will be to experience 360 Reality Audio through two ways:
- Headphones: Using an Android/iOS and the participating streaming service, users can have this experience with any pair of headphones from most major manufacturers.
- Speakers: Users will also be able to listen to 360 Reality Audio using their speakers if their speaker system has Sony’s unique decoder of the 360 Reality Audio music format, multiple speaker units and signal processing technology.
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Moreover, Sony has partnered with platform and chipset providers, in order to make 360 Reality Audio usable in a wide range of future connected devices that have Amazon Alexa, Google Chromecast built-in, Chipsets manufactured by Media Tek and Qualcomm.
Jerry Yu, MediaTek Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Intelligent Devices Business Group, said:
For the past two decades MediaTek has delivered cutting-edge audio solutions with the latest sound processing technology. Integrating Sony’s 360 Reality Audio technology into our audio portfolio will enable device makers to bring a concert-like audio experience to consumers around the world.