- Some users may not want to use Download Central. For example, users may have an alternate download manager which they prefer. Or they are using the HTTP Server, which currently does not support Download Central.
+ Some users may not want to use Download Central. For example, users may have an alternate download manager which will be faster[1]
In these cases, manual setup is still possible in the following way:
- Find the archive.org URL for your wiki. These will generally follow the form of https://archive.org/download/Xowa_(wiki)_latest/ For a list of possible wiki names, see the archive.org links on the Image databases page.
+ Click on the Info button for your download. For example, Simple Wikipedia Articles will take you to home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentralInfo?task_id=1
- Download the files for your wiki. These will generally follow the form of "Xowa_(wiki)_(date)_(type).zip". For example, see above for Simple Wikipedia file names.
+ Copy and paste the listed URLs to your download manager.
- Unzip the files to C:\xowa\wiki\simple.wikipedia.org\
+ Unzip the files to the wiki folder listed on the Info page. For example, Simple Wikipedia files will go to C:\xowa\wiki\simple.wikipedia.org\
- For the desktop, just run XOWA. XOWA will automatically pick up the new wiki
+ For the desktop, just restart XOWA. XOWA will automatically pick up the new wiki
- For Android, copy the files to your SD Card. See Android Setup for a list of paths.
+ For Android, copy the files to your SD Card. See Android Setup for a list of paths.
Existing monthly update users of the English Wikipedia v2b images
- This section only applies to users who have been manually downloading the monthly updates for English Wikipedia
+ This section only applies to users who have been manually downloading the monthly updates for English Wikipedia.
No need to redownload the images in Download Central
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For next month (and future months), you should download the monthly update through Download Central. There will be a new task called "English Wikipedia - Image Update (2016-07)". You will just need to download this item, and you'll be up-to-date.
- Of course, you will still be able to download them manually from archive.org. But as shown by the section above, this can be quite complicated.
+ Of course, you will still be able to download them manually from archive.org. But as shown by the section above, this can be quite laborious.
+ (PC) Fix Download Central failing on last step of image import
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+ This is a patch to fix an issue with Download Central. Download Central would fail when trying to import images (it failed on the very last command). Restarting the app and resuming would fix it.
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+ Note that this bug only occurred on PC and not Android.
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+ I also included a few minor HTML changes for some related screens.
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+ (PC) Fix Download Central failing on last step of image import
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+ This is a patch to fix an issue with Download Central. Download Central would fail when trying to import images (it failed on the very last command). Restarting the app and resuming would fix it.
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+ Note that this bug only occurred on PC and not Android.
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+ I also included a few minor HTML changes for some related screens.
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The most important category to review is major. The other categories may be skipped due to lower importance (if they were more important, they would be bumped up to major).