Wikipedia is constantly changing. Every moment, articles and images are added and deleted.
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XOWA updates images on a monthly basis. However, these updates only <i>add</i> new images. They do not <i>delete</i> old unused images.
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XOWA will soon move to a smarter update platform that will process <i>adds</i> and <i>deletes</i> automatically. In the meantime, you will need to process <i>deletes</i> manually.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Delete_images_using_a_database">Delete images using a database</span>
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This is a two-step process (Press <code>Expand</code> to reveal more notes):
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(1) Choose a file deletion database: <inputid='xowa__deletion_db__url'style='width:600px'class='options_textbox'><buttonid='xowa__deletion_db__get'class='options_button'>...</button>
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These files are available at archive.org. For example, <ahref="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2016-03-05_file_deletion.7z"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2016-03-05_file_deletion.7z</a>
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They are only available for English Wikipedia. Other wikis are available on request.
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They have a format like the following: <code>en.wikipedia.org-file-core-deletion_db-2016.03.xowa</code>
<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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