Hi Subodh, That is a very good news.
Do you know reason for only the select languages available on app? I was trying to find Gujarati as we have several completely proofread books but couldn't see it as an option. Thanks, Dhaval On Thu, 21 Aug 2025, 3:31 pm Subodh Kulkarni, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Wikimedians, > > (I am Subodh Kulkarni working with the Open Knowledge Initiatives team, > IIIT-Hyderabad. I am writing to provide an update that started at CIS and > has now come to fruition). This message has been sent by Bodhisattwa and > Sai Phanindra in their volunteer capacity on a few other relevant mailing > lists. > > It gives us immense pleasure and excitement to you that the *Wikisource > Reader mobile application > <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cis_india.wsreader>* is > now released for Android users at the Google Play Store for them to read > books which are completely proofread and transcluded on Wikisource > websites. The Github repo is here > <https://github.com/cis-india/wikisource-reader> and a website for the app > <https://cis-india.github.io/wikisource-reader-app/> is also created. The > development of the app was financially supported by Centre for Internet and > Society until March 2025, who also host the app on Google play store now. > The support to this app was of strategic priority (to develop and build > technological solutions for global majority projects on Wikimedia > platforms) for CIS and will continue to be taken up at OKI as well. > > The metadata of the books are fetched directly from Wikidata and strictly > follows the bibliographical book model > <http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books> of Wikidata. So to appear > in the app, any completed book must fulfill the three mandatory criteria > mentioned below. They need to have corresponding: > > - Wikidata items > - Wikisource sitelink with proofread or validation badges > - P1957 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957> property linked > in the items. > > A sample Wikidata item of one such book is here > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51614301>. A sample SPARQL query to list > the books to be displayed in the app for one specific language is here > <https://w.wiki/F4Av>. A detailed documentation can be found on this Meta-Wiki > page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_reader_app/Selection>. > > The app currently hosts more than 7300 books in 22 language Wikisource > editions like Assamese, Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, English, French, > Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Marathi, Malay, Polish, Punjabi, > Spanish, Sundanese, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. More > languages will be added in next releases as and when they fulfill the > mandatory criteria in due course for at least 1-5 books as a start. > > The app has the following features > > 1. Clean and beautiful user interface > 2. Dark and Light theme > 3. Option to browse free e-books in multiple languages > 4. Option to import books from non-Wikisource external sources > 5. Option to filter books in different literary forms > 6. Option to download books for offline access > 7. Option to store, read and delete books from library > 8. Option to jump through chapters > 9. In-built e-book reader > 10. Customization of font color, size and weight > 11. Light, Dark, Sepia and customized color mode for reading > 12. Adjustment of page margins > 13. RTL and LTR support > 14. System default typeface along with options for Literata, Sans > Sarif, IA Writer Duospace, AccsiibleDfa and OpenDyslexic typefaces > 15. Option to choose among left, right and justified text alignments > 16. Customization of line height, paragraph indent, paragraph spacing, > word spacing and letter spacing > 17. Options to highlight, underline and annotate texts > 18. Option to bookmark > 19. Text to Speech in different languages with customizable speed and > pitch > > The app is dependent on > > - WSindex API <https://wsindex.toolforge.org/books/>, which was built > specifically to fetch books for the app. The source code is here > <https://codeberg.org/ph4ni/wsindex>. > - WS export <https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WS_Export> tool to > generate Epubs > - Myne app <https://github.com/Pool-Of-Tears/Myne/> by Shivam > <https://krsh.dev/> for user interface > - Readium mobile <https://github.com/readium/kotlin-toolkit> by The > European Digital Reading Lab (EDRLab) > <https://www.edrlab.org/software/readium-mobile/> for the actual > reading experience. > > The app is now developed and maintained in volunteer capacity and we > welcome all open source developers and experienced Wikisourcerers to > contribute to the development of the app for the future. > > We sincerely thank everyone who was involved in supporting the app in > different ways, without whom this app could not have been developed. > > Regards, > > Subodh Kulkarni > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaIndia-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikimediaindia-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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