Wiki Project Med/App

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Medical Wikipedia (also known as WikiMed) is a mobile app providing offline access to Wikipedia's health content. Built on Kiwix and supported by Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland, the app is available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is available in several languages. The app includes medicine, anatomy, medication, and sanitation articles.

All versions of the app are free and available for download below!

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About[edit]

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Medical Wikipedia is a mobile app which provides offline access to health information on Wikipedia. It is an instance of the Wikipedia arm of Kiwix.

On June 10th, 2015 Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland launched an android app that contains all of the English Wikipedia's health care content: including medical, anatomy, medication, physiology, dentistry, and sanitation related articles as tagged by the respective WikiProjects. Since then, further language versions have followed. All versions of the app are available for download on en:Google Play. In 2018 an English-language WikiMed app was launched in the en:Microsoft Store by Kiwix: this app can be installed on all Windows 10 devices (PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox). For other operating systems, a two step process is required.

This page is for collaboration to improve the existing versions and to launch new versions. The introduction page for the English app is at Textbook of Medicine

Language download links for Android phones [edit]

The existing language versions of the app can be downloaded at these links from Google Play:

  1. Download the app in Arabic (AR)
  2. Download the app in German (DE)
  3. Download the app in English (EN)
  4. Download the app in Spanish (ES)
  5. Download the app in Persian (FA)
  6. Download the app in French (FR)
  7. Download the app in Japanese (JA)
  8. Download the app in Odia (OR) (also spelled Oriya or Odiya)
  9. Download the app in Portuguese (PT)
  10. Download the app in Modern Standard Chinese (ZH)

Smaller version[edit]

  1. Download the smaller EN version

Video[edit]

A version with video is avaliable as of July 2017. To get this version:

  1. First download the Kiwix app
  2. Then download this zim

Store link for Windows 10 devices [edit]

  1. Download the app in English (EN)

For other languages, see instructions in the About tab of the above app, or if you do not want the English-language archive at all, install the small generic Kiwix JS app and download your preferred language archive directly in the app from the Settings page.

The above Windows 10 apps can be installed on a microSD card: simply change the install location in Settings -> Storage.

Other operating systems[edit]

Other operating systems click here

  • For Windows versions prior to Windows 10: [1]
  • For iOS first download Kiwix (requires iOS version 10.0.0 or higher) then download the language ZIM you wish
    • There is also a standalone iOS app «WikiMed» available in the Apple app store (English only).

Browser add-ons:

Moving to SD card[edit]

I believe that this will work from an SD card as well. You put the small Kiwix software on the main data space and then the ZIM on the SD.

Data files[edit]

All ZIMs here

  • To download the English (EN) ZIM file click here
  • To download the Portuguese (PT) ZIM file click here
  • To download the Chinese (ZH) ZIM file click here
  • To download the Arabic (AR) ZIM file click here
  • To download the Spanish (ES) ZIM file click here
  • To download the Persian (FA) ZIM file click here
  • To download the French (FR) ZIM file click here

18 official languages of India[edit]

Future work[edit]

Future plans include:

  • download better quality images when clicked on
  • ability to add larger pictures than thumbnail
  • ability to save data to an sd card
  • add en:WP:MCB, WP:Physiology, WP:VetMed, WP:Neuroscience, en:WP:Dentistry
  • allow people to download just the topic areas they want
  • allow direct sharing between phones[4]

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A banner to raise awareness of the app is here. There was consensus against the use of the banner at the top of articles at a village pump discussion in January–February 2017 (closed in March). Use; however, may be appropriate on user pages (e.g. at the top of them) and project pages.

  • {{Meta:WikiProject Medicine/App/Banner}}

Sidebox[edit]

The offline app allows you to download all of Wikipedia's medical articles in an app to access them when you have no Internet.
Wikipedia's health care articles can be viewed offline with the Medical Wikipedia app.

A sidebar to raise awareness of the app is here. Consensus was gained for the use of the sidebar in the external links section of medical articles at a pump discussion in March–April 2017 (closed in April).

  • {{Offline|med}}

Stats[edit]

Press release[edit]

Possible data collection[edit]

1) A CSV file of the date by the number of downloads of each app

2) For the viewing of content right from the harddrive

a) Product loaded

b) Number of page views of that product

c) Terms searched for which returns zero results

Launching a language[edit]

A number of translations are needed plus a logo.

Intro page[edit]

  • Rest of intro here.
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Welcome to the Offline Medical Encyclopedia by Wikipedia. This is a complete collection of all health care, anatomy, and medication related topics from Wikipedia in an offline format. Like Wikipedia all content is open access, meaning that it is free to download, reuse, share, and build upon.

We are working to develop these apps in a number of languages. There are ongoing efforts to increase access to medical information in all languages in collaboration with en:Translators Without Borders among others. If you like this app and are interested in helping us make it better please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine or contact us directly.

Please keep in mind that this is volunteer generated content. While we try our best to make it as accurate as possible it is not perfect. Thus we request that you use common sense.

James Heilman, MD, CCFP(EM)
The Teams at WikiProject Medicine &
Translators Without Borders

  • Partly machine translated here. Just substitute the language code. Newer layout here.

Android app details[edit]

Title: Medical Wikipedia (Offline)

Sub-Title: Healthcare articles available offline, everywhere, for free!

Description: Wikipedia's Offline Medical Encyclopedia is the biggest collection of healthcare articles on Android. It includes medical, anatomy, medication, and sanitation articles. If you are in the developing world without access to the Internet or on a boat in the middle of nowhere you can now access one of the foremost and up-to-date medical dictionary, for free. Perfect for community health workers, doctors, medical students, and those simply interested in health. Also available in a number of other languages with ongoing efforts to expand the selection.

Powered by Kiwix http://www.kiwix.org/

Logos[edit]

  • Ar (Arabic)

  • En (English)

  • De (German)

  • De (German)

  • De (German)

  • Es (Spanish)

  • Es (Spanish)

  • Es (Spanish)

  • Fa (Farsi)

  • Or (Odia)

  • Pt (Portuguese)

  • Zh (Chinese hans)

  • Zh (Chinese hant)

  • Zh (Chinese traditional)

  • Or (SVG)

  • Or (PNG)

Intro pages[edit]

Get involved[edit]

The app is open source which means that you can view its source code and build derivatives off it.

You can do so by:

  1. first setting up Kiwix as described here
  2. downloading the .zim file of the language you'd like to have from here (for English that's wikipedia_en_medicine_2016-11.zim as an example)
  3. following the instructions under "Steps to build a Custom App" in the readme
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