<ahref="#Import_simple.wikipedia.org_through_the_command-line"><spanclass="tocnumber">1</span><spanclass="toctext">Import simple.wikipedia.org through the command-line</span></a>
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<ahref="#Import_a_different_wiki_by_editing_the_build_script"><spanclass="tocnumber">2</span><spanclass="toctext">Import a different wiki by editing the build script</span></a>
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<ahref="#Import_a_wiki_with_a_manual_download"><spanclass="tocnumber">3</span><spanclass="toctext">Import a wiki with a manual download</span></a>
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<ahref="#Download_the_wiki_dump"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.1</span><spanclass="toctext">Download the wiki dump</span></a>
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<ahref="#Specify_location_of_the_wiki_dump"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.2</span><spanclass="toctext">Specify location of the wiki dump</span></a>
Run the following: <spanclass='console'>java -jar C:\000\200_dev\110_java\100_core\out\production\400_xowa\ --cmd_file C:\xowa_release\xowa_build.gfs --app_mode cmd</span>
Open the following file in a <ahref="/wiki/Dev/Environment/Text_editor"id="xolnki_2"title="Dev/Environment/Text editor">text editor</a>: <spanclass='path'>C:\xowa_release\xowa_build.gfs</span>. See Script below for the full text.
Replace all instances of <spanclass='bold'>simple.wikipedia.org</span> with the domain name. For example, for English Wikipedia, use <spanclass='bold'>en.wikipedia.org</span>
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Run the command-line import again.
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Launch XOWA and enter in the domain name in the the URL bar.
Navigate to <ahref="https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki</a>
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Click on the <b>latest</b> directory
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Download the file just under "<b>Articles, templates, media/file descriptions, and primary meta-pages.</b>". It should read <b>enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2</b>
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The download is 11+ GB and may take anywhere between 2 and 5 hours to complete.
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If you also want talk pages, you should download the "<b>Recombine all pages, current versions only.</b>" version. It should read <b>enwiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2</b>. Note that this dump is twice the size of the regular dump.
<li><ahref="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html"title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa"title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
<li><ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org"title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
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