<spanclass="mbox-text-span">Note: This feature is currently not supported. The WMF Tarballs are severely out of date (2012 December). See the following for more info:</span>
<spanclass="mbox-text-span">Once the WMF provides a more up to date tarball, I'll resume work on this feature. If you are interested in this feature, please send inquiries to the xmldatadumps mailing list or comment on bugzilla.</span>
XOWA displays images by using online downloads as specified in <ahref="//gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/wiki/home/page/Dev/File/Setup.html"id="xolnki_2"title="Dev/File/Setup">Dev/File/Setup</a>. However, XOWA can also be setup to use offline sources. If you have the time and storage space, you can download all the images for your wiki and run them from a hard drive. Note that the full tarball set for English Wikipedia is over 2 TB and may take 15 days to download and unzip. Even a small wiki like Simple Wikipedia requires 56 GB. Please prepare accordingly.
Navigate to the Wikimedia image dump site at <ahref="http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/</a>
If you are on a Windows system, the current version of 7-Zip does not handle UTF-8 filenames (it default to CP-1252). You will need to download the latest 7-Zip alpha (I used 9.27).
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You can try the latest alpha here: <ahref="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45797/topic/6063877"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45797/topic/6063877</a>
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Unzip the tarball to the hard-drive's root.
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For example, on a Windows 7 system with a hard drive mounted at W, unzip to W:\. This will create a directory called <b>W:\wikipedia\common\</b>.
Two changes will have to be made to the config file:
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commons source
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Search for the following: <code>.set('src_http_commons', '<ahref="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/'"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/'</a> , 'commons.wikimedia.org' ).ext_rules_('img_only').owner</code>
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Replace it with the following: <code>.set('src_http_commons', 'W:\wikipedia\commons\' , 'commons.wikimedia.org' ).fsys_('wnt').tarball_('y').ext_rules_('img_only').owner</code>
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Search for the following: <code>.set('src_http_~{wiki_key}', '<ahref="http://upload.wikimedia.org/~{wiki_type_name}/~{wiki_lang}/'"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://upload.wikimedia.org/~{wiki_type_name}/~{wiki_lang}/'</a> , '~{wiki_key}').ext_rules_('img_only').owner</code>
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Replace it with the following: <code>.set('src_http_~{wiki_key}', 'W:\~{wiki_type_name}\~{wiki_lang}\' , '~{wiki_key}').fsys_('wnt').tarball_('y').ext_rules_('img_only').owner</code>
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Note: the .fsys_('wnt') is not needed for Linux systems. It is a "hack" for Windows systems to handle File titles that have invalid Windows NT filesystem characters (such as " or :)
Dumping all the thumbnails in a wiki is currently being implemented. See <ahref="//gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/wiki/home/page/Dev/Design/Offline_files.html"id="xolnki_3"title="Dev/Design/Offline files">Dev/Design/Offline_files</a>
<li><ahref="//gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/wiki/home/page/App/Setup/System_requirements.html"title='Get XOWA's system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
<li><ahref="//gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/wiki/home/page/App/Setup/Installation.html"title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
<li><ahref="//gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/wiki/home/page/App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html"title='Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia'>Simple Wikipedia</a></li>
<li><ahref="//gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/wiki/home/page/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html"title='Learn how to set up English Wikipedia'>English Wikipedia</a></li>
<li><ahref="//gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/wiki/home/page/App/Import/Other_wikis.html"title='Learn how to set up other Wikipedias'>Other Wikipedias</a></li>
<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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