# Main Page

From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application

## Summary

XOWA is the free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection!

XOWA showing Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia

## Features

- Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
- Display 5.0+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
- Show images within an article. Access 5.0+ million images using the offline image databases.
- Set up over 800+ other wikis including:
  - English Wiktionary
  - English Wikisource
  - English Wikiquote
  - English Wikivoyage
  - Non-English wikis, such as French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Dutch Wikivoyage
  - Wikidata
  - Wikimedia Commons
  - Wikispecies
  - ... and many more!
- Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups.
- Navigate between offline wikis. Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
- Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
- Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
- Run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, and Android
- View the HTML for any wiki page
- Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box
- Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages
- Find a word on a page.
- Access a history of viewed pages
- Bookmark your favorite pages.

## Recent News

2017-04-26 2017-04 English Wikipedia released

- English Wikipedia

2017-03-28 2017-03 English Wikipedia, 2017-03 Russian, 2017-03 Hindi, and 2017-03 Tibetan wikis released

- English Wikipedia
- Russian wikis
- Hindi wikis
- Tibetan wikis

2017-03-06 2017-02 German and French Wikipedia released

- German Wikipedia
- French Wikipedia

2017-02-21 2017-02 English Wikipedia released. Also, 2017-02 Gujarati wikis

- English Wikipedia
- Gujarati wikis

2017-01-27 2017-01 Chinese wikis released

- Chinese Wikis

2017-01-02 2016-12 English Wikipedia released. Also, 2016-12 Italian and Swahili wikis

- English Wikipedia
- Italian wikis
- Swahili wikis

2016-12-04 2016-11 Dutch and Russian wikis released. Also, 2016-11 German Wikipedia

- Dutch wikis
- Russian wikis
- German Wikipedia

### XOWA

- Main page
- Screenshots
- Download XOWA
- Download wikis

### Getting started

- Requirements
- Installation
- Simple Wikipedia
- English Wikipedia
- Other Wikipedias

### Android

- Setup

### Help

- About
- Contents
- Media
- Feedback

### Blog

- Current

### Links

- Wikimedia dumps
- XOWA @ archive.org
- English Wikipedia

### Donate

- archive.org
- Wikipedia
- XOWA