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+ Release: v3.3.4.1 (2016-03-27 19:30 Sun)
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+ The desktop app is a major release. It has a new autocomplete address bar, a new search system as well as minor parser fixes.
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+ The Android app is a major release. It has more updates for the new search system.
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+ (Desktop) New autocomplete address bar
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+ The address bar now supports autocompletion. For example, open up English Wikipedia, and start typing earth. The autocomplete is very fast and supports a lot of advanced functionality. For example you can do a search like earth + (history, future) -middle directly in the address bar. See [[App/Search/Overview]] as well as [[Options/Search suggest]].
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+ Unfortunately, the autocomplete uses the new search system, so old wikis need to upgrade the search databases. You can upgrade by any of the following:
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+ Open any page in the wiki
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+ Click the search suggest box (the box between "View HTML" and the magnifying glass)
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+ Start typing. XOWA will prompt you to upgrade the wiki.
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+ Use the [[Dashboard/Wiki_maintenance]] page
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+ Download a copy (only for users with 2016-03 English Wikipedia)
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+ (Desktop) New search system
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+ I completely rewrote the search system over the past several weeks. Most of these changes were meant for Android to handle fast searches with a slower processor. This new engine is now part of the desktop app, so desktop users get the same benefits as well. To summarize, here are the main benefits:
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+ Faster searches: Searches are now dramatically faster for single-words (
earth), wildcards (e*), multiple words (earth history) and multiple wildcards (earth* history*)
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+ PageRank score: Searches now use PageRank to order results. These provide better quality results than using page length. The old system would show "List of" pages at the top of the page
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+ Punctuation friendly: Searches can be done for
U.S.A. or USA; dont't or dont; half-life or half or life.
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+ Boolean searches: Searches can use boolean operators like
-, ,, +, (), and *. In addition, there's even an escape operator: \. See [[App/Search/Overview]]
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+ Home wiki: The home wiki is now searchable. Try entering in
search or any other word
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+ (Desktop) Minor fixes for Category pages and taxonomy url links
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+ There are basically two fixes:
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+ (Android) Improvements for search system
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+ The Android search system received more performance and accuracy improvements. Also, the Android version supports boolean searches as well. If you're using the new search system, you should definitely update your copy:
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+ If you haven't tried XOWA on Android, please give it a try. See https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/wiki/Android.
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+ Next release: v3.4.1
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+ I've spent a lot of time on the search system for the past several weeks. I'm going to take a break and work on the following items for next week's release:
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+ Shrink the image databases for English Wikipedia : English Wikipedia is getting close to 128 GB but there are about 25 GB of unused image files. I'm planning on adding a feature that allows users to delete these old images. I'll also upload a brand new set.
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+ Resume image dumps: I'm going to upload a new French Wikipedia.
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+ Make minor Android changes: There are still some minor changes I need to make for the upcoming Google Play release in April.
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Release: NONE (2016-03-20 22:00 Sun)
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Better performance: Search is much quicker. One word searches should come back subsecond and multiple words should come back in a few, with initial results coming back in the first second
- Better ranking: Search now ranks results by page rank. Previously, XOWA ranks by page length, which resulted in long "List of" articles appearing near the top.
+ Better ranking: Search now ranks results by page rank. Previously, XOWA ranks by page length, which resulted in long "List of" articles appearing near the top.
Better search terms: Search now handles punctuation better. Searches can be done for "U.S.A." or "USA"; "dont't" or "dont"; "half-life" or "half" or "life".
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Windows
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Source code
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+ Search: Add autocomplete to url bar.
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+ Links: App/Search/Address_bar
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+ Search: Improve performance of searches.
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+ Search: Assign numeric score to pages using PageRank.
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+ Search: Handle titles with punctuation like "GNU/Linux", "o'clock", "Faster-than-light", "History of U.S.A. Science", "20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea" etc..
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+ Search: Improve boolean searches.
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+ Doc: Add search capabilities to the home wiki.
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+ Resolved by: Upgrade home wiki to new search system.
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+ Scribunto: Fix script error on English Wikipedia category pages. Message:
Script error: =Module:progress box:59 attempt to index ? (a number value)
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+ Resolved by: Support "*" for Scribunto "pagesInCategory".
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+ Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_February_2009
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+ Wikibase: Add hyperlinks to taxonomy navbar for about a few hundred en.w pages.
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+ Resolved by: Support "from" atribute in "{{#property}}". Example: {{#property:p1|from=p2}}.
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+ Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_eagle
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+ Resolved by: Assign keycodes based on SWT const values.
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+ Resolved by: Upgrade sqlite-jdbc to 3.8.2.
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+ Setup: Always list correct version number in windows.exe files. {detected by anonymous}
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+ Extension.NewWindowLink: Handle {{#NewWindowLink}} for wikia wikis. {requested by anonymous}
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+ Wikibase: Add "adywiki" to list of known wikis.
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+ Wiki: Change site_stats from int to long.
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- Search: Fix search not working. [broken since: v3.1.1.1]
+ Search: Improve performance and accuracy of searches.
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- Resolved by: Assign correct word ids to search word.
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- Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Earth&fulltext=y
+ Resolved by: Remove unnecessary level of threading.
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- Html: Fix English Wiktionary sections defaulting to collapsed but showing "hide". [broken since: v3.1.5.1]
+ Javascript: Fix table collapse / expand buttons not working.
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- Resolved by: Change mediawiki.gadget.navframe.js to explicitly set style.display.
+ Resolved by: Change javascript to call tableFull.setAttribute("style", 'display:none !important');.
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+ Search: Allow search for apostrophe words. {detected by anonymous4}
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+ Resolved by: Search using prepared statements, not dynamic SQL. Example: search for "o'clock".
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+ Search: Allow search for "and", "or".
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+ Resolved by: Change boolean AND operator to be "+" and OR operator to be ",".
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- Build: Build application package for Raspberry Pi. {contributed by yonisolo}
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- Package: Release English Wikipedia (2016-01).
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- Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest
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- Package: Release English Wikis (2016-01).
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