<ahref="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2017-02_English_Wikipedia_and_2017-02_Gujarati_wikis"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.1</span><spanclass="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2017-02 English Wikipedia and 2017-02 Gujarati wikis</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Support_editable_Categories"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.3</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Support editable Categories</span></a>
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<ahref="#.28PC.29_Add_Import_option_for_Personal_wikis"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.4</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Add Import option for Personal wikis</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Fix_extremely_short_url_bar_on_some_machines"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.5</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Fix extremely short url bar on some machines</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Other_changes_including_curid.2C_Special:XowaSql.2C_and_keyboard_shortcuts"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.6</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Other changes including curid, Special:XowaSql, and keyboard shortcuts</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Support_creation_of_personal_wikis._See_App.2FPersonal_wikis"><spanclass="tocnumber">2.1</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Support creation of personal wikis. See App/Personal_wikis</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Add_minor_changes_to_Download_Central"><spanclass="tocnumber">2.2</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Add minor changes to Download Central</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Add_new_in-app_updater"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.1</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Add new in-app updater</span></a>
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<ahref="#.28PC.29_Add_better_support_for_images_in_Wikia_and_other_custom_wikis"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.2</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Add better support for images in Wikia and other custom wikis</span></a>
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<ahref="#.28PC.29_Fix_Random_not_working_for_HTML_databases"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.3</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Fix Random not working for HTML databases</span></a>
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<ahref="#.28PC.29_Add_Creative_Commons_footer_to_bottom_of_page"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.4</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Add Creative Commons footer to bottom of page</span></a>
The PC version is a major release. It adds page deletion, category updates, wiki import, and a high-DPI machine support.
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The Android version has no release.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2017-02_English_Wikipedia_and_2017-02_Gujarati_wikis">(Wiki) Publish 2017-02 English Wikipedia and 2017-02 Gujarati wikis</span>
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2017-02 English Wikipedia is officially up. See <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Wiki_setup/English_wikis.html"id="xolnki_15"title="Wiki setup/English wikis"class="xowa-visited">Wiki_setup/English_wikis</a>
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In addition, I reuploaded the entire English Wikipedia file database set. This is a periodic task which is necessary to keep the image databases small for new users.
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Without the change, new users would need to download 110 GB of data to get a full set.
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With the change, new users would only need to download 94 GB
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Depending on if you're a new user or an existing user, you'd need to do the following:
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<b>New user</b>: Just download the task named <code>English Wikipedia - Images: New Users (2017-02) [94.23 GB]</code>. This will give you all the images for 2016-02 English Wikipedia
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<b>Existing user</b>: You'll probably have to do two things
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Download the task named <code>English Wikipedia - Image Update: Existing Users (2017-02) [6.60 GB]</code>. This will give you all the images for 2017-01 and 2017-02 English Wikipedia
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If you want to "shrink" your image databases and reclaim about 15 GB of space
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Download the deletion database from here: <ahref="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/en.wikipedia.org-file-deletion-2017.02.xowa"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/en.wikipedia.org-file-deletion-2017.02.xowa</a>
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Use the page here: <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion.html"id="xolnki_16"title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion"class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a>
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Also, per request, I generated 2017-02 Gujarati wikis. See <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Wiki_setup/Gujarati_wikis.html"id="xolnki_17"title="Wiki setup/Gujarati wikis"class="xowa-visited">Wiki_setup/Gujarati_wikis</a>
This build adds a <code>Delete page</code> button. To use it, do the following:
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Switch to <code>Edit</code> mode
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Press <code>Delete page</code>
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Confirm that you want to delete the page
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Note the following:
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You can delete any page from the wiki, including the Main_Page
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The page is permanently deleted. If you need to recover it, you would have to restore from a backup.
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This feature is mainly intended for personal wikis. With that said, you can also delete a page from a Wikimedia wiki (like en.wikipedia.org).
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Support_editable_Categories">(PC) Support editable Categories</span>
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This build also adds editable Categories. To try it, do the following:
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Edit a page
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Add the following text: <code>[[Category:Test]]</code>
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Scroll down to the bottom of the page. You will see a <code>Categories</code> section and <code>Test</code> listed
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Navigate to <code>Category:Test</code>. You will see the page listed
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This feature is also mainly for personal wikis. However, it will also work with Wikimedia wikis (like en.wikipedia.org)
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Add_Import_option_for_Personal_wikis">(PC) Add Import option for Personal wikis</span>
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The previous build didn't have an easy way to move a personal wiki from one machine to another. This build now has an import button. To use it, do the following:
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Copy the personal wiki file from the first machine to the second machine
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Go to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaWikiDirectory.html"id="xolnki_18"title="Special:XowaWikiDirectory"class="xowa-visited">Special:XowaWikiDirectory</a> on the second machine
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Click the <code>Import</code> button. It's a white sheet of papers with a white arrow pointing rightwards.
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Select the file.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Fix_extremely_short_url_bar_on_some_machines">(PC) Fix extremely short url bar on some machines</span>
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XOWA had issues with machines with different DPI settings. This resulted in one of the following:
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The progress bar being clipped at the bottom of the screen. This occurred on laptops or other machines with Large Fonts enabled
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The URL bar being extremely short. This occurred on machines with High DPI settings.
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Both of these are resolved with this build.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Other_changes_including_curid.2C_Special:XowaSql.2C_and_keyboard_shortcuts">(PC) Other changes including curid, Special:XowaSql, and keyboard shortcuts</span>
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This build also has a few other notable changes:
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Navigate to page using the curid argument. For example, <code>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=303</code> will navigate to the <code>Alabama</code> page
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A new special page to easily run SQL within XOWA: <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaSql.html"id="xolnki_19"title="Special:XowaSql"class="xowa-visited">Special:XowaSql</a>. This is mainly intended for any future troubleshooting.
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Changes to some default keyboard shortcuts. This requires a longer explanation:
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XOWA used Ctrl+U to restore the text in the URL bar. Note that all major browsers use escape for the same purpose.
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XOWA wasn't using escape, because escape transferred focus to the main browser.
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XOWA now uses Ctrl+M to transfer focus to the main browser
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As such, escape now restores the text in the URL bar.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28Dev.29_Change_license_to_GPLv3_.2F_Apache2">(Dev) Change license to GPLv3 / Apache2</span>
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This change affects the XOWA source-code only. It has no direct impact on users.
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Basically, XOWA's source code was offered under a more "strict" license called the AGPLv3. It is now being offered under a choice of two license:
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A "strict" licence: GPLv3
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A "permissive" license: Apache2
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For more background, see <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/115"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/115</a> as well as <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/License/Code.html"id="xolnki_20"title="Help/License/Code"class="xowa-visited">Help/License/Code</a>
<b>New 2017-02 wikis</b>: I still need to rebuild the Linux box so wikis are on hold. I'm hoping to resume this week
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<b>Personal wikis</b>: I'm going to add an interwiki feature (link from one personal wiki to another) to the next release, as well as any other minor feature.
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Support_creation_of_personal_wikis._See_App.2FPersonal_wikis">(PC) Support creation of personal wikis. See <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Personal_wikis.html"id="xolnki_21"title="App/Personal wikis"class="xowa-visited">App/Personal_wikis</a></span>
A user was kind enough to suggest supporting personal wikis. These are standalone wikis that are entirely created and edited by a user. A reddit thread was created and there looks like there's some interest in the worldbuilding community:
<b>New 2017-02 wikis</b>: I'm almost done uploading 2017-02 English Wikipedia, but am waiting on archive.org to release some things. I've hit a snag in terms of building new wikis as my Linux box is effectively broken. I'm going to rebuild it this week, but that may set me back
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<b>Shrinking XOWA wikis</b>: I'll also release a deletion database for 2017-02 English Wikipedia. The final size of images should be around 92 GB
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<b>Personal wikis</b>: Depending on feedback from others, I may work on personal wiki features.
<b>A new page to show any pending updates</b> : This can be reached by doing Help -> Update XOWA or by going to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaAppUpdate.html"id="xolnki_22"title="Special:XowaAppUpdate"class="xowa-visited">Special:XowaAppUpdate</a>
More info is available at <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Update/In-app.html"id="xolnki_23"title="App/Setup/Update/In-app"class="xowa-visited">App/Setup/Update/In-app</a>
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Add_better_support_for_images_in_Wikia_and_other_custom_wikis">(PC) Add better support for images in Wikia and other custom wikis</span>
XOWA had only minimal support for images in Wikia wikis. However, as a result of tickets <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/124"rel="nofollow"class="external text">#124</a> and <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/125"rel="nofollow"class="external text">#125</a>, the following changes were made:
<b>Images in the File namespace will now show</b>: For example, <ahref="https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/File:Keyboard_shortcuts.svg"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/File:Keyboard_shortcuts.svg</a> . Note that clicking on an image here will also open it up in the image viewer.
<b>File names with spaces are automatically renamed to use underscores</b>: For example, <code>SpellIcon PsionicBlast.png</code> will be renamed to <code>SpellIcon_PsionicBlast.png</code>
<b>SVG thumbnails will now use ".png" instead of ".svg"</b>: For example, "C:\xowa\file\nethackwiki.com\thumb\8\3\f\d\Keyboard_shortcuts.svg\800px.png"
<b>View HTML will now show the img src and width info</b>: For example, <img id="xoimg_1" alt="File%3AKeyboard+shortcuts.svg" src="file:///D:/xowa_temp/file/nethackwiki.com/thumb/8/3/f/d/Keyboard_shortcuts.svg/800px.png" width="800" height="293" />
<b>Images are now integrated directly into the app file cache</b>: See <code>home/wiki/Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.files.general</code>. This means that a separate thumbs directory is no longer generated
<b>A startup script is no longer needed</b>: No startup script is needed at <code>home/wiki/Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.app.startup</code>. XOWA now automatically assumes that all non-WMF wikis will have offline files in the wiki directory. For example, <code>C:\\xowa\\wiki\\your_wiki\\file\\orig\\</code>
<b>Updated instructions</b>: Instructions were updated at <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Wiki_types/Wikia.com"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Wiki_types/Wikia.com</a>
This was reported in issue #121: <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/121"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/121</a>
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Add_Creative_Commons_footer_to_bottom_of_page">(PC) Add Creative Commons footer to bottom of page</span>
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This was a minor request made by Ope30 also. Pages will now show the Creative Commons footer at the bottom of the page. I also redesigned the footer as well.
<b>Shrinking XOWA wikis</b>: I'm going to try to reduce the size of the XOWA wikis. Among other things, I'm planning to remove obsolete images (images once used, but since removed) and also do some configurable downloads for Category / other namespaces
<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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<li><ahref="https://archive.org/donate/index.php"title="Support archive.org!">archive.org</a></li><!-- listed first due to recent fire damages: http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/ -->
