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-Overview

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Summary

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XOWA is a free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection! +

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XOWA is an offline Wikipedia application that lets you run Wikipedia on your computer.

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+ XOWA showing Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia +
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XOWA showing Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia

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-Features

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Features

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  • Run a complete copy of English Wikipedia from your computer.
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  • Display 5.0+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
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  • Show images within an article. Access 4.0+ million images using the offline image databases.
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  • Set up over 800+ other wikis including: English Wiktionary, English Wikisource, English Wikiquote, English Wikivoyage, Non-English wikis (French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Dutch Wikivoyage), Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and many more.
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  • Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups.
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  • Navigate between offline wikis. Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
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  • Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
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  • Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
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  • Run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. (Android Alpha available)
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  • Run as an HTTP server to browse from Firefox, Chrome or Safari
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  • View the HTML source for any wiki page.
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  • Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box. Search across wikis as well.
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  • Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages.
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  • Find a word on a page.
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  • Access a history of viewed pages.
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  • Bookmark your favorite pages.
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  • Preview articles by hovering over links
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  • Customize any one of over 50 options
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-Requirements

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XOWA is written in Java and requires 1.7 or above.

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-Installation

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  • Unzip to any folder on your hard drive (or flash memory card)
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-Dependencies

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XOWA has seven dependencies:

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-Compilation instructions (ANT command-line)

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-Setup the XOWA app

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  • Download the latest XOWA app package for your operating system. For example, if you're on a 64-bit Linux system, "xowa_app_linux_64_v1.9.5.1.zip".
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  • Unzip the XOWA app package to a directory. For the sake of simplicity, these instructions assume this directory is "/xowa/"
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  • Download the latest XOWA source archive. For example: "xowa_source_v1.9.5.1.7z"
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The '''xowa_source.7z''' was built with Eclipse Indigo. There are no OS dependencies, nor are there dependencies on Eclipse.

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  • Launch Eclipse. Choose a workbench folder of "/xowa/dev"
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  • Right-click on 400_xowa in the Package Explorer. Select Debug As -> Java Application. Select Xowa_main. XOWA should launch.
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This section documents specific project customizations that differ from the standard Eclipse defaults.

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Resource -> Text file encoding -> Other -> UTF-8

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These settings are available under Window -> Preferences

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XOWA is released under the AGPLv3 license. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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  • Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia. +
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  • Display 4.7+ million articles in full HTML formatting. +
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  • Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ million images using the offline image databases. +
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  • Set up over 800+ other wikis including: + +
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  • Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups. +
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  • Navigate between offline wikis. Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary. +
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  • Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors. +
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  • Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines. +
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  • Run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X +
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  • View the HTML for any wiki page +
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  • Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box +
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  • Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages +
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  • Find a word on a page. +
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  • Access a history of viewed pages +
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  • Bookmark your favorite pages. +
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Recent News

+ 2015-06-22 English Wikipedia update released
+ + 2015-05-04 English wikis and Korean wikis released
+ - - + 2015-04-29 German wikis (rebuild) and Czech wikis released
+ + + 2015-04-22 English wikis (rebuild), Simple wikis, Polish wikis, and Greek wikis released
+ + 2015-03-16 English wikis (update) released
+ + + 2015-03-09 Italian (update) wikis released
+ + + 2015-03-02 Dutch (update) and Latin (update) wikis released
+ + + 2015-02-23 Russian wikis (update) released
+ + + 2015-02-16 Simple wikis and English Wikipedia (update) released
+ + + 2015-02-09 German wikis (update) released
+ + + 2015-02-02 English wikis (update) released
+ + + 2015-01-26 English Wikipedia (update) released
+ + + 2014-12-08 Arabic wikis (update) released
+ + + 2014-12-01 French Wikipedia (update) released
+ + + 2014-11-23 English Wikipedia (update) released
+ + + 2014-11-09 German (update), Latvian (new), Nynorsk (new), and Cebuano (new) wikis released
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