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<a href="#Patch:_Missing_wikis_in_sidebar_.282016-04-13_21:34_Wed.29"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Patch: Missing wikis in sidebar (2016-04-13 21:34 Wed)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.4.2.1_.282016-04-10_21:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.2.1 (2016-04-10 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
<a href="#Release:_v3.4.3.1_.282016-04-17_21:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.3.1 (2016-04-17 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Android.29_XOWA_Android_app_on_Play_Store"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) XOWA Android app on Play Store</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Faster_search_database_build"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Faster search database build</span></a>
<a href="#.28Android.29_Kit-Kat_support_for_Android_app"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Kit-Kat support for Android app</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_New_English_Wikipedia_images_update_.282016-03.29"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) New English Wikipedia images update (2016-03)</span></a>
<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Minor_changes_and_fixes.2C_including_missing_random_sub-pages_in_Portal.2C_missing_Wikis_sidebar_in_home_wiki_and_no_.7B.7BDisplayTitle.7D.7D"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Minor changes and fixes, including missing random sub-pages in Portal, missing Wikis sidebar in home wiki and no {{DisplayTitle}}</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Minor_Wikia_parser_tags"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Minor Wikia parser tags</span></a>
<a href="#.28Desktop.29_New_http:.2F.2Fxowa.org_domain_with_entire_home_wiki"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) New</span></a> <a href="http://xowa.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org</a> domain with entire home wiki
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<a href="#.28Android.29_New_pages_for_.22Import_new_wiki.22_and_.22XOWA_Wikis.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) New pages for "Import new wiki" and "XOWA Wikis"</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Android.29_Minor_fixes_for_crashes_.2F_obsoleted_items"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Minor fixes for crashes / obsoleted items</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.4.3"><span class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.3</span></a>
<a href="#Next_release:_v3.4.4"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.4</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.4.1.1_.282016-04-04_20:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.1.1 (2016-04-04 20:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#Patch:_Missing_wikis_in_sidebar_.282016-04-13_21:34_Wed.29"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Patch: Missing wikis in sidebar (2016-04-13 21:34 Wed)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.4.2.1_.282016-04-10_21:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.2.1 (2016-04-10 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Faster_search_database_build"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Faster search database build</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Fixes_for_old_.sqlite3_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Fixes for old .sqlite3 wikis</span></a>
<a href="#.28Desktop.29_New_English_Wikipedia_images_update_.282016-03.29"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) New English Wikipedia images update (2016-03)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Fix_for_offline_import_of_large_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Fix for offline import of large wikis</span></a>
<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Minor_Wikia_parser_tags"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Minor Wikia parser tags</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Command_to_shrink_English_Wikipedia_images_by_8_GB"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Command to shrink English Wikipedia images by 8 GB</span></a>
<a href="#.28Android.29_New_pages_for_.22Import_new_wiki.22_and_.22XOWA_Wikis.22"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) New pages for "Import new wiki" and "XOWA Wikis"</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Package.29_Release_of_French_Wikipedia_2016-03"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Package) Release of French Wikipedia 2016-03</span></a>
<a href="#.28Android.29_Minor_fixes_for_crashes_.2F_obsoleted_items"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Minor fixes for crashes / obsoleted items</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.4.2"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.2</span></a>
<a href="#Next_release:_v3.4.3"><span class="tocnumber">3.6</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.3</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_NONE_.282016-04-03_22:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release: NONE (2016-04-03 22:00 Sun)</span></a>
<a href="#Release:_v3.4.1.1_.282016-04-04_20:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.1.1 (2016-04-04 20:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Fixes_for_old_.sqlite3_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Fixes for old .sqlite3 wikis</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Fix_for_offline_import_of_large_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Fix for offline import of large wikis</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Desktop.29_Command_to_shrink_English_Wikipedia_images_by_8_GB"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Command to shrink English Wikipedia images by 8 GB</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Package.29_Release_of_French_Wikipedia_2016-03"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Package) Release of French Wikipedia 2016-03</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.4.2"><span class="tocnumber">4.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.2</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_NONE_.282016-04-03_22:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Release: NONE (2016-04-03 22:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.4.3.1_.282016-04-17_21:00_Sun.29">Release: v3.4.3.1 (2016-04-17 21:00 Sun)</span>
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The desktop app is a minor release. It has various minor fixes, including broken Portal pages and a missing Wikis sidebar
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The Android app is a major release. It has support for Kit-Kat. In addition, it has finally been released to the Play Store!
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Android.29_XOWA_Android_app_on_Play_Store">(Android) XOWA Android app on Play Store</span>
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The XOWA Android app has finally been released to the Play Store. Surprisingly, this involved a lot of unforeseen tasks, like graphic design, video recording, icon generation, secure signing, etc. Many thanks to anonymous4 for invaluable help, feedback and support.
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Here are some useful links:
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<b>Play Store Link</b>: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa</a>
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<b>Youtube video</b>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsMTBxGweUw" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsMTBxGweUw</a>
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<b>Android Setup</b>: <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Android/Setup.html" id="xolnki_7" title="Android/Setup" class="xowa-visited">Android/Setup</a>
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Finally, if you've been using any of the earlier Android App versions, I recommend you update to this version. It only has more UI tweaks in terms of the icons and Settings page, but it is the official release version.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Android.29_Kit-Kat_support_for_Android_app">(Android) Kit-Kat support for Android app</span>
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The other major item in the Android app release is support for Kit-Kat. This too was made possible by anonymous4 and provision of a Kit-Kat device.
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If you have a Kit-Kat device, please give it a try.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Desktop.29_Minor_changes_and_fixes.2C_including_missing_random_sub-pages_in_Portal.2C_missing_Wikis_sidebar_in_home_wiki_and_no_.7B.7BDisplayTitle.7D.7D">(Desktop) Minor changes and fixes, including missing random sub-pages in Portal, missing Wikis sidebar in home wiki and no {{DisplayTitle}}</span>
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v3.4.2.1 has a number of minor fixes. In brief:
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<b>Broken sub-pages in [[Portal]]</b>: Portal pages often display a Random sub-panel. These panels were broken due to an obscure XOWA Luaj bug (# of pages from int to long).
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<b>Missing Wikis sidebar in the home wiki</b>: The Wikis sidebar did not show in the home wiki due to some CSS changes last week.
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<b>{{DisplayTitle}} was ignored</b>: {{DisplayTitle}} was broken due to recent changes for PageBanner. This means that a page like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gzip" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gzip</a> showed "Gzip" as the title instead of "gzip".
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<b>Script error for cycling tables on de.wikipedia.org</b>: A few dozen cycling-related pages on German Wikipedia showed script errors. This was due to an obscure XOWA ParserFunction bug that returned ServerName as "<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://de.wikipedia.org</a>" instead of "//de.wikipedia.org"
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<b>Support for Wikia TabView and Tabber functions</b>: XOWA now supports two core Wikia parser functions for generating sub-tabs within a page
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Desktop.29_New_http:.2F.2Fxowa.org_domain_with_entire_home_wiki">(Desktop) New <a href="http://xowa.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org</a> domain with entire home wiki</span>
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I finally linked the <a href="http://xowa.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org</a> domain to <a href="https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa</a> . Hopefully that will make the link more memorable. Again, much gratitude goes to anonymous4 for helping me set-up the cross-domain links.
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Also, I uploaded all the home documentation to <a href="http://xowa.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org</a> You can navigate to any page by taking the page url and adding <a href="http://xowa.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org</a> in front of it.
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For example, <code><a href="http://xowa.org/" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org/</a></code> + <code>home/wiki/Help/Contents</code> -&gt; <code><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents</a></code>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.4.4">Next release: v3.4.4</span>
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I ran into a minor parser issue with Luaj that ended up pushing German Wikipedia back a week. I'll upload an update this week, along with Android wikis.
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Also, Wikimedia's 2016-April English Wikipedia dump is broken. Don't bother importing your English Wikipedia this month as a lot of the pages will fail due to missing Modules. See <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2016-April/001298.html" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2016-April/001298.html</a>
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For next week, I'm going to work on generating mini-wikis for download to Android. I'll also start going through some old parser bugs.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Patch:_Missing_wikis_in_sidebar_.282016-04-13_21:34_Wed.29">Patch: Missing wikis in sidebar (2016-04-13 21:34 Wed)</span>
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<b>Really benefits from an SSD</b>: SQLite really does better with an SSD. I tried some tricks like changing PRAGMA synchronous to OFF, but this only shaves off a dozen or so minutes. In contrast, an SSD will easily knock off an hour if not more (from 2 hours to about 40 min)
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<b>If you want the new search, downloading from archive.org is the easiest way</b>: There are other complexities with the search database rebuild (PageRank algorithm and the 10 GB pagelinks dump: See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search/Overview.html" id="xolnki_7" title="App/Search/Overview" class="xowa-visited">App/Search/Overview</a>). As such, the easiest way is to download prebuilt copies from archive.org:
<b>If you want the new search, downloading from archive.org is the easiest way</b>: There are other complexities with the search database rebuild (PageRank algorithm and the 10 GB pagelinks dump: See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search/Overview.html" id="xolnki_8" title="App/Search/Overview" class="xowa-visited">App/Search/Overview</a>). As such, the easiest way is to download prebuilt copies from archive.org:
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2016-03-05_wiki_core.7z" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2016-03-05_wiki_core.7z</a>
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<b>New user</b>: Download the new 2016-03 version. Previously you would have to download 2015-06 set, and then download separate updates for every month between 2015-07 and 2016-03. This was just too cumbersome.
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<b>Existing user (2015-06)</b>: Ignore the 2016-03 version. You downloaded the 2015-06 set and presumably have been keeping up with the monthly updates. The 2016-03 set is the same as your set, except it is smaller (it no longer has deleted images). If you want to remove about 8 GB of deleted images, see <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion.html" id="xolnki_8" title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion" class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a>. Once you remove the deleted images, you will have a set that is exactly the same as the 2016-03 version.
<b>Existing user (2015-06)</b>: Ignore the 2016-03 version. You downloaded the 2015-06 set and presumably have been keeping up with the monthly updates. The 2016-03 set is the same as your set, except it is smaller (it no longer has deleted images). If you want to remove about 8 GB of deleted images, see <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion.html" id="xolnki_9" title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion" class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a>. Once you remove the deleted images, you will have a set that is exactly the same as the 2016-03 version.
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<b>Existing user (2013-11 or something else)</b>: Download the 2016-03 version. You have an old set of XOWA image databases that I really can't support any longer (they have an extension of .sqlite3). I know downloading 80 GB is painful, but I'm not planning to change database formats again in the future.
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The total size of English Wikipedia is about 90 GB. 8 GB is from old images: images removed from articles during the day-to-day editing churn.
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If you have English Wikipedia and have been following along with the updates, go to <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion.html" id="xolnki_9" title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion" class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a> and follow the instructions therein.
If you have English Wikipedia and have been following along with the updates, go to <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion.html" id="xolnki_10" title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion" class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a> and follow the instructions therein.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Package.29_Release_of_French_Wikipedia_2016-03">(Package) Release of French Wikipedia 2016-03</span>