<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>
<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>
2017-02 English Wikipedia is officially up. See <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Wiki_setup/English_wikis.html"id="xolnki_6"title="Wiki setup/English wikis"class="xowa-visited">Wiki_setup/English_wikis</a>
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>
Use the page here: <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion.html"id="xolnki_7"title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a>
Also, per request, I generated 2017-02 Gujarati wikis. See <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Wiki_setup/Gujarati_wikis.html"id="xolnki_8"title="Wiki setup/Gujarati wikis">Wiki_setup/Gujarati_wikis</a>
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
Go to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaWikiDirectory.html"id="xolnki_9"title="Special:XowaWikiDirectory"class="xowa-visited">Special:XowaWikiDirectory</a> on the second machine
<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>
A new special page to easily run SQL within XOWA: <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaSql.html"id="xolnki_10"title="Special:XowaSql">Special:XowaSql</a>. This is mainly intended for any future troubleshooting.
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_11"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_12"title="App/Personal wikis">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_13"title="Special:XowaAppUpdate">Special:XowaAppUpdate</a>
More info is available at <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Update/In-app.html"id="xolnki_14"title="App/Setup/Update/In-app">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:
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<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.
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<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>
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<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"
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<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" />
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<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
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<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>
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<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>
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Basically, the Random feature was not working for wikis downloaded through Download Central.
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>New 2017-02 wikis</b>: I skipped the 2017-01 series due to personal reasons. I should have a 2017-02 English Wikipedia in the coming week
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<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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