Navigate to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Import/Offline.html"id="xolnki_2"title="Dashboard/Import/Offline"class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Import/Offline</a>
Download and extract categorylinks.sql. For example, for Simple Wikipedia, do the following:
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Navigate to <ahref="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/</a>
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Download the file marked simplewiki-latest-categorylinks.sql.gz
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Unzip simplewiki-latest-categorylinks.sql.gz. When you are done, you will have a file called /xowa/wiki/simple.wikipedia.org/simplewiki-latest-categorylinks.sql
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Download and extract page_props.sql. For example, for Simple Wikipedia, do the following:
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Navigate to <ahref="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/</a>
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Download the file marked simplewiki-latest-page_props.sql.gz
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Unzip simplewiki-latest-page_props.sql.gz. When you are done, you will have a file called /xowa/wiki/simple.wikipedia.org/simplewiki-latest-page_props.sql
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Open up /xowa/xowa_build.gfs and replace the file with the following:
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app.bldr.pause_at_end_('n');
app.bldr.cmds {
add ('simple.wikipedia.org' , 'text.cat.core');
add ('simple.wikipedia.org' , 'text.cat.link');
add ('simple.wikipedia.org' , 'text.cat.hidden');
}
app.bldr.run;
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Run <code>java -Xmx512m -jar xowa_linux_64.jar --cmd_file xowa_build.gfs --app_mode cmd</code>
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For Simple Wikipedia, the entire process should take less than 5 minutes. For English Wikipedia, the process will take about 1 hour.
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