<ahref="#.28Wiki.29_Release_2016-10_English_and_German_wikis_.28Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_Wikinews.29"><spanclass="tocnumber">2.1</span><spanclass="toctext">(Wiki) Release 2016-10 English and German wikis (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews)</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC_.2F_Android.29_Allow_filtering_wikis_by_language_.2F_type_in_Download_Central"><spanclass="tocnumber">2.2</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC / Android) Allow filtering wikis by language / type in Download Central</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Add_better_support_for_English_Wikivoyage"><spanclass="tocnumber">2.3</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Add better support for English Wikivoyage</span></a>
<ahref="#.28Wiki.29_Release_2016-10_English_and_German_Wikipedia"><spanclass="tocnumber">5.1</span><spanclass="toctext">(Wiki) Release 2016-10 English and German Wikipedia</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Multiple_category_changes.2C_including_performance.2C_international_sorting.2C_numeric_sorting.2C_and_HTML_database_loading"><spanclass="tocnumber">5.2</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Multiple category changes, including performance, international sorting, numeric sorting, and HTML database loading</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Fix_for_.22Script_error:_index_out_of_bounds.22_on_2016-10_enwiki_pages"><spanclass="tocnumber">5.3</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Fix for "Script error: index out of bounds" on 2016-10 enwiki pages</span></a>
The PC version is a minor release. It adds filtering to Download Central, better support for English Wikivoyage, and fixes errors in the Import Offline page
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The Android version is a minor release. It also adds filtering to Download Central.
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28Wiki.29_Release_2016-10_English_and_German_wikis_.28Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_Wikinews.29">(Wiki) Release 2016-10 English and German wikis (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews)</span>
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC_.2F_Android.29_Allow_filtering_wikis_by_language_.2F_type_in_Download_Central">(PC / Android) Allow filtering wikis by language / type in Download Central</span>
Download Central now has a lot of wikis. I added some basic filtering to allow selection by language or wiki type. I'll be adding more customization to Download Central as time goes on, but hopefully this should make the list more manageable.
I discovered a number of issues with 2016-10 English Wikivoyage:
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<b>Quickbar script errors</b>: There was a lot of script errors in the Quickbox due to a Wikibase error with renderSnak. This was fixed in this release
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<b>Kartographer</b>: There was also a lot of "stray" text due to new extension tags <maplink> and <mapframe>. This release takes the simple approach and just hides them
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<b>Assessment text at bottom of page</b>: This was also due to a new extension. This too is suppressed in this release.
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In addition, there were issues with Chinese pages on English Wiktionary due to an obscure LuaJ error. This too was resolved in this release.
<ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Import/Offline.html"id="xolnki_14"title="Dashboard/Import/Offline">Dashboard/Import/Offline</a> was broken due to the recent changes in the Category system. In addition, there were a few other minor fixes.
<b>Wikis</b>: I'm generating the wikis for the 2016-10 French wikis (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, etc). Afterwards, I'll work on updating the Polish set.
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<b>Light schedule</b>: The schedule will probably be lighter for the next month. I'll still be producing wikis on a weekly basis, and resolving issues as they come up. However, I'm going to keep new development initiatives to a minimum.
The PC version is a minor release. It now shows the 2016-10 entries for English and German Wikipedia in Download Central.
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Thanks to Ope30 for reporting the bug (<ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/90"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/90</a>).
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Multiple_category_changes.2C_including_performance.2C_international_sorting.2C_numeric_sorting.2C_and_HTML_database_loading">(PC) Multiple category changes, including performance, international sorting, numeric sorting, and HTML database loading</span>
First, round of thanks to <ahref="https://github.com/Ope30"rel="nofollow"class="external text">Ope30</a> who noticed a number of issues with the category system as decribed in <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/87"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/87</a>
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This particular release has a lot of changes based on the bug reports:
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<b>Improved performance on SATA drives, especially for large categories</b>: The category system in v3.9.4.1 worked okay on SSD drives, but did poorly on SATA drives. Large categories (2,000+) like <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_albums"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_albums</a> would take 20-30 seconds to load. Now they take 4-5 seconds.
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<b>Next 200 / Previous 200 would not work on English Wikipedia for large categories</b>: English Wikipedia recently changed their sorting collation from "uppercase" to "uca-default-u-kn". As a result, a number of entries no longer sorted correctly, and pressing "Next / Previous" would break. As an example, <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_stub_articles"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_stub_articles</a> now works correctly navigating forward
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<b>HTML dumps now show wikitext HTML</b>: Category pages sometimes have a letter index at the top of the page, or other information. For example, <ahref="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mann"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mann</a> has a large table of contents listing many 2-letter combinations. This information didn't appear in the HTML dumps before. Now they do
<b>Other minor changes</b>: There are a small number of other changes as well which are covered more in the <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Change_log/v3.10.3.1.html"id="xolnki_17"title="Change log/v3.10.3.1">Change log</a>
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Fix_for_.22Script_error:_index_out_of_bounds.22_on_2016-10_enwiki_pages">(PC) Fix for "Script error: index out of bounds" on 2016-10 enwiki pages</span>
A number of pages in 2016-10 English Wikipedia would should "Script error: index out of bounds" in the Infobox area near the Coordinates. For example, <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris</a> This was fixed in this release
This was a feature requested at <ahref="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/88"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/88</a>
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Basically, v3.10.4.2 allows changing XOWA pages through custom Javascript. This is intended for non-Wikimedia wikis (such as Wikia) which use custom extension that are not supported in XOWA. A user can add this missing custom extension by writing an extension in Javascript.
<b>Wikis</b>: I'm generating 2016-10 French Wikipedia now, and should have it uploaded in the next day. Afterwards, I'm going to go through the English sister wikis (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage) and then hopefully the German ones.
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<b>Dynamic update of wiki pages</b>: Between categories and scripting, I didn't get a chance to work on this feature
The link is here: <ahref="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/en.wikipedia.org-file-deletion-2016.09.xowa"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/en.wikipedia.org-file-deletion-2016.09.xowa</a> The instructions are here: <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion.html"id="xolnki_19"title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a>
<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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