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Medical Wikipedia / MDWiki (also known as WikiMed) is a mobile app and desktop app providing offline access to Wikipedia's and MDWiki'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. Download for Android, Apple or Windows / Linux.

Warning Some of the apps are in excess of 1Gb. Make sure you are able to download them without incurring expensive charges!

About

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Medical Wikipedia
Original author(s)Wikimedia CH, Wiki Project Med Foundation
Initial releaseJune 2015
Template:Infobox software/simple
OSAndroid 4.0 or later
Size257 MB (AR), 300 MB (DE), 1.2 GB (EN), 258 MB (ES), 142 MB (FA), 301 MB (FR), 300 MB (JA), 50 MB (OR), 156 MB (PT), 150 MB (ZH)
Available inArabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Odia, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese
TypeHealth information on the Internet
LicenseCC BY SA and GPL
Websitekiwix.org

Medical MEDWiki and Wikipedia is a mobile app which provides offline access to health information on MDWiki and Wikipedia. It is an instance 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 Google Play.

In 2018 an English-language WikiMed app was launched in the Microsoft Store: this app can be installed on all Windows 10/11 devices (PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox). In 2020 Electron versions of this app (with built-in WikiMed archive) were provided on the Kiwix JS PWA GitHub Releases page, and these run on Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 (32bit / 64bit).

For other operating systems, a two step process is required: download the app, then download the archive. Apps can be obtained from Kiwix.

This page is for collaboration to improve the existing versions and to launch new versions. The introduction page for the English app is at App/IntroPage

Further details HERE.