Wikimedia Foundation: James Heilman on expanding the reach of Wikipedia’s medical information

… had developed offline versions of Wikipedia, which for English ran to nearly 70 Gb, which was simply too big to easily fit on a phone’s memory. We wanted to see if an app closer to one gigabyte in size that would be specifically geared towards medicine would be successful. The app we developed turned out to be very successful in terms of downloads and user engagement. …