v2.11.3 is a fairly minor release. It addresses one minor bug with "1. REDIRECT" showing up on pages.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Fix_for_.221._REDIRECT.22_showing_up_on_some_pages">Fix for "1. REDIRECT" showing up on some pages</span>
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This was a bug I introduced while fixing another issue in v2.11.2. Some pages would now show "1. REDIRECT", most notably en.w:Earth
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Wiki_bundles_for_Slovak.2C_Slovenian.2C_Galician.2C_and_Waray-Waray_wikis">Wiki bundles for Slovak, Slovenian, Galician, and Waray-Waray wikis</span>
I fixed the one minor Wikibase issue, but am deferring a few other possible issues till later. I'm still chugging away on the HTML dump. My aim is to get a simple wiki dump for the next release.
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I generated the English Wiki dump but there were only about 3 thousand new images, and I didn't feel that it merited an update. For wikis, I'm going to update French, and then go through as many as I can of Lithuanian, Limburgish, Estonian, Latvian and Nynorsk.
v2.11.2 is a significant release. It addresses minor, but noticeable issues with gallery sections, location maps, and references. It also has some Wikibase fixes.
<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Fix_for_Gallery_rendering_vertically_instead_of_horizontally">Fix for Gallery rendering vertically instead of horizontally</span>
Wikimedia added a change a few weeks ago to force <gallery> tags to use a css. See <ahref="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110709"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110709</a> This resulted in galleries being shown vertically, instead of horizontally.
This has been a bug for a few months, but I had misdiagnosed it as bad Module code. Basically, non-English wikis would copy-paste the same Module:Location_map code in to their wikis. This failed to work in XOWA, because:
This basically broke location maps in non-English wikis. I should have caught this earlier, but the first few I looked at were all bad usages (no location coordinates passed).
I think this is also a recent bug, but I can't track down the actual cause. MediaWiki has inconsistent logic for trimming whitespace around template and link arguments. The one at issue was a piece of code like <code>{{TemplateName| B\n }}</code>. On my local version of MediaWiki (1.25.2), it doesn't trim the <code>"\n "</code> after the B and creates a <pre> section. However, on Wikipedia, it does trim the whitespace and does not create a <pre> section.
I think this behavior changed recently, but couldn't find the actual line of code in MediaWiki. For now, XOWA will automatically trim end whitespace for all template arguments. In my opinion this is more intuitive behavior anyway.
Redirects would not work if they had an argument. For example, #REDIRECT [[Target_page|link=collapsed]]
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Clicking on "Redirected from" links at the top of the page would not work. For example, try <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK</a> and click on "Redirected from UK"
<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Wiki_bundles_for_Danish.2C_Serbo-Croatian.2C_Croatian.2C_and_Estonian_wikis">Wiki bundles for Danish, Serbo-Croatian, Croatian, and Estonian wikis</span>
I made some good progress with the rewritten HTML dump feature this week, but am still not done. I'm hoping to get ready for v2.11.3 but I need to work on a few other minor issues that have spilled over from this week. (namely in Wikibase).
For wikis, I'm generating 2015-11 English Wikipedia. I'm also going to continue through the minor wikis and try to do Slovak, Waray-Waray, Slovanian and Galician
v2.11.1 now supports Hebrew dates for the time function like <code>{{#time:xhxjj xjx xhxjY|28-08-1608 + 341 days}}</code> generating <code>ד' ה'שס\"ט"</code>. In addition there is basic support for Hebrew grammar like <code>{{grammar:prefixed|וabc}}</code> generating <code>ווabc</code>.
<spanclass='mw-headline'id='Image_packages_for_English_Wikipedia.2C_Hebrew.2C_Norwegian_and_Vietnamese_wikis'>Image packages for English Wikipedia, Hebrew, Norwegian and Vietnamese wikis</span>
I've been working on a new UI for the Android alpha. I've also spent time rewriting the HTML dump. For the next few weeks, I don't expect to do anything with the desktop app outside of bug fixing.
I'm skipping the release this week. I spent most of the time this week on the HTML dump as well as Android. I'm looking at doing the regular monthly release next week but don't expect any major issues.
I'm uploading Bulgarian now, but the rest should be ready at archive.org. See: <ahref="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_srwiki_latest"class="external text"rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/Xowa_srwiki_latest</a><ahref="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_mswiki_latest"class="external text"rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/Xowa_mswiki_latest</a> and <ahref="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_bgwiki_latest"class="external text"rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/Xowa_bgwiki_latest</a>
For code, I'm going to change tack again and table the article update function. I'm working on a different XOWA Android UI with hopes of updating the alpha in the next few weeks.
v2.10.2 is a major release. It has a critical fix for the 2015-10 English Wikipedia dump. It also features better functionality for Chinese / Serbian language wikis. Finally, it also has some significant under-the-hood changes
<spanclass='mw-headline'id='Fix_for_broken_references_in_2015-10_English_Wikipedia_dump'>Fix for broken references in 2015-10 English Wikipedia dump</span>
XOWA was showing broken references on 2.6 millions pages for the 2015-10 English Wikipedia dump. This was due to some recent changes in <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Citation/CS1">Module:Citation/CS1</a>. Specifically, the number of local variables in the citation0 function was greater than the default 200 limit for Luaj.
Serbian languages now have language dropdowns. For example, sr.wikipedia.org now allows you to switch between Cyrillic and Latin variants
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Chinese and Serbian wikis now fully implement the "-{}-" syntax. This includes some significant functions like recursive conversion, word-interchangeability, and adhoc rule-definition. See: <ahref="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_systems/Syntax">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_systems/Syntax</a>
I'm really hoping that the new functionality matches MediaWiki. If you're a Chinese / Serbian user, please take a moment to spot-check a few pages and let me know if there is anything amiss.
<spanclass='mw-headline'id='Better_support_for_.3Csource.3E_and_.3Csyntaxhighlight.3E'>Better support for <source> and <syntaxhighlight></span>
MediaWiki recently changed the <syntaxhighlight> extension away from geshi to Pygments. In the process, it looks like they changed a few of the general parsing rules as well. v2.10.4 has better support for these blocks, though actual syntax coloring is still some time away.
v2.10.2 now incorporates online calls to Wikimedia APIs. The first use was to download a full list of interwiki aliases for each wiki. For those users in offline mode, you can manually generate the list. For more info, see [[Help:Site config]]
XOWA supports custom creation of wikis by matching articles against words. For example, you can create an English Wikipedia that doesn't have any Pokemon articles. Or you can create an English Wikipedia that just has Pokemon articles. The system is intricate but should be quite powerful. For more info, see [[Help:Import/Dansguardian]]
I'm skipping the release this week. I ran into some issues with Chinese / Serbian translations, though I think I'm pretty close to being done. In addition, I have some other significant changes in queue which I didn't want to introduce for a "first-week-of-the-month" release.
If you want a recent stable release, use <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/tag/v2.9.4.1"class="external text"rel="nofollow">v2.9.4.1</a>. I'll keep that release up for a month.
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