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Contents
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XOWA is an application for reading and editing wikis offline. It aims to provide full offline access to all content in every Wikimedia Foundation wiki.
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XOWA has several features:
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Displays all articles from a Wikimedia data dump.
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Works with English Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, as well as the non-English language counterparts (for example, French Wikipedia).
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Renders articles with full HTML formatting.
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Downloads images and other files on demand.
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Edits articles.
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Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry PI, and Android.
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Installs to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
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Is customizable and extendable at many levels: from keyboard shortcuts to HTML layouts to internal options.
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Is open-source under the AGPLv3 license.
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XOWA should work with any dump that has been generated by MediaWiki software. It has been personally tested for over 200 wikis, including:
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< a href = "https://en.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > English Wikipedia< / a >
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The English sister projects: < a href = "https://en.wiktionary.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wiktionary< / a > , < a href = "https://en.wikisource.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikisource< / a > , < a href = "https://en.wikivoyage.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikivoyage< / a > , < a href = "https://en.wikiquote.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikiquote< / a > , < a href = "https://en.wikibooks.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikibooks< / a > , < a href = "https://en.wikiversity.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikiversity< / a > and < a href = "https://en.wikinews.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikinews< / a >
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Non-English Wikipedias including < a href = "https://de.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > German< / a > , < a href = "https://es.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Spanish< / a > , < a href = "https://fr.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > French< / a > , < a href = "https://it.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Italian< / a > , < a href = "https://nl.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Dutch< / a > , < a href = "https://pl.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Polish< / a > , < a href = "https://ru.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Russian< / a > , < a href = "https://sv.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Swedish< / a > , < a href = "https://ja.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Japanese< / a > , < a href = "https://zh.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Chinese< / a > , < a href = "https://ar.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Arabic< / a > , < a href = "https://la.wikipedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Latin< / a > , and many more.
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Unique wikis including < a href = "https://commons.wikimedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikimedia Commons< / a > , < a href = "https://www.wikidata.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikidata< / a > , < a href = "https://species.wikimedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Wikispecies< / a > , < a href = "https://www.mediawiki.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > MediaWiki< / a > , < a href = "https://meta.wikimedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Meta-wiki< / a > , < a href = "https://incubator.wikimedia.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > Incubator< / a > , < a href = "https://wikimediafoundation.org" rel = "nofollow" class = "external text" > WikimediaFoundation< / a >
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For a full list, see < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Import/Online.html" id = "xolnki_2" title = "Dashboard/Import/Online" class = "xowa-visited" > Dashboard/Import/Online< / a > and < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" id = "xolnki_3" title = "Dashboard/Image databases" > Dashboard/Image_databases< / a >
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XOWA is free software. The code is open source under the AGPLv3 license, and available to anyone for review or modification. See < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/License/Code.html" id = "xolnki_4" title = "Help/License/Code" class = "xowa-visited" > Help/License/Code< / a > for more information as well as < a href = "https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa" rel = "nofollow" class = "external free" > https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa< / a > .
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XOWA advocates free content. All documentation and project artifacts are provided under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. See < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/License/Docs.html" id = "xolnki_5" title = "Help/License/Docs" > Help/License/Docs< / a > for more information.
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XOWA values user privacy. It will never collect and upload personal information. It is designed to be run in a standalone environment, without any connection to the internet. See < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Privacy/Desktop.html" id = "xolnki_6" title = "Help/Privacy/Desktop" class = "xowa-visited" > Help/Privacy/Desktop< / a > for more information.
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title = 'Download the XOWA application' > Download XOWA< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title = 'Download offline wikis and image databases' > Download wikis< / a > < / li >
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< h3 > Getting started< / h3 >
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title = 'Get XOWA's system requirements' > Requirements< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Installation.html" title = 'Get instructions for installing XOWA' > Installation< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html" title = 'Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia' > Simple Wikipedia< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html" title = 'Learn how to set up English Wikipedia' > English Wikipedia< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Other_wikis.html" title = 'Learn how to set up other Wikipedias' > Other Wikipedias< / a > < / li >
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Android/Setup.html" title = 'Setup XOWA on your Android device' > Setup< / a > < / li >
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/About.html" title = 'Get more information about XOWA' > About< / a > < / li >
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< li > < a href = "http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title = "Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia" > Wikimedia dumps< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title = "Search archive.org for XOWA files" > XOWA @ archive.org< / a > < / li >
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