(Browser) Go to <ahref="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa</a> and press Install
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(Offline) Go to <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases</a> and grab the latest xowa_app_android_v*.apk
<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Download_the_wiki">Download the wiki</span>
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Pick a wiki from the list below <supid="cite_ref-more_wikis_0-0"class="reference"><ahref="#cite_note-more_wikis-0">[1]</a></sup>
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To view text only, download the <code>html</code> links
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To view images, also download the <code>images</code> links
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Not all files are required for the wiki
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Only the files marked <code>core</code> are required
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Other files may be skipped, but you won't see data in those files
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For example, if you don't download <code>html.category articles</code>, you won't be able to read categories (articles in the [[Category]] namespace)
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For example, if you don't download <code>images.main articles.part-02</code>, you won't have 500,000 random images.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Unzip_the_download">Unzip the download</span>
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Use <ahref="http://www.7-zip.org/"rel="nofollow"class="external text">7-zip</a> to unzip the downloads
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Move_the_files_to_your_SD_card">Move the files to your SD card</span>
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The unzip will create a folder like <code>C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org</code>
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Move this folder to your SD card.
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For example, if your SD card is on the X drive, you will be moving them to <code>X:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org</code>
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When done, you will have a file like <code>X:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-core.xowa</code> as well as many others
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Import_the_wiki_in_XOWA">Import the wiki in XOWA</span>
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Press <code>the menu button</code> in the top left-hand corner
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Press the <code>XOWA</code> item
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Press the <code>blue plus</code> image in the top right-hand corner of the grid
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If you're on Marshmallow, you will get a prompt to allow XOWA to read your SD card. Please allow it. For more information on XOWA's privacy policy, see <ahref="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Privacy/Android.html"id="xolnki_2"title="Help/Privacy/Android"class="xowa-visited">Help/Privacy/Android</a>
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Go to the wiki folder on your SD card
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For example, on an LG G4 device, you would navigate to <code>storage</code> -><code>CARD-CODE</code> -><code>xowa</code> -><code>wiki</code> -><code>en.wikipedia.org</code>
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Press the file with the XOWA icon. In this case it would be <code>en.wikipedia.org-core.xowa</code>
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Open_the_wiki">Open the wiki</span>
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Press the link for the wiki on the <code>XOWA</code> page
<spanclass="mw-cite-backlink"><ahref="#cite_ref-more_wikis_0-0">^</a></span><spanclass="reference-text">More wikis will be generated over the coming months. If you want a specific wiki, please make a request at <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues</a></span>
<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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