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== Fit strategy and user demand ==
== Fit strategy and user demand ==


Increase reach is currently [https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_Priorities#Increase_Reach the first Wikimedia strategic goal]. Offline is an essential part of the Wikimedia strategy to increase the audience of our content, and Kiwix as official Wikimedia offline reader is the offline lead tool.
Increase reach is currently [https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_Priorities#Increase_Reach the first Wikimedia strategic goal]. Offline is an essential part of the Wikimedia strategy and Kiwix, as official Wikimedia offline reader, is a master piece of this strategy.


GNU/Linux represents only a small part of the audience, but this is the audience we want to push. We think that free software is the best solution to access to free content. This is also the best solution for economically poor people who are our most targeted audience. At the same time, this part of the audience is used to collaborate, and so one often make more feedbacks about the software - something essential to improve it.
GNU/Linux represents only a small part of our audience, but this is the audience we want to push. We think that free software is the best solution to access to free content. This is also the best solution for economically poor people who are our most targeted audience. At the same time, this part of the audience is used to collaborate, and so on often make more and better feedbacks about the software - something essential to improve it.


Around 20.000 people per month download Kiwix. This is a lot and this number is growing constantly. But we still things that millions of people need Kiwix and that in fact this number represents only a small fraction of our potential audience. That's why such project are essential to push the software to those users.
Around 20.000 people per month download Kiwix. This is a lot and this number is growing constantly. But we still things that millions of people need Kiwix ; this number represents only a small fraction of our potential audience. That's why this project is essential to push Kiwix and Wikipedia to those users.


== Wins ==
== Wins ==