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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span>Help/Overview</span></h1>
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<div id="siteSub">From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application</div>
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Contents
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<a href="#Summary"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Summary</span></a>
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<a href="#Features"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Features</span></a>
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<a href="#Supported_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Supported wikis</span></a>
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<a href="#Philosophy"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Philosophy</span></a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Summary">Summary</span>
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XOWA is an application for reading and editing wikis offline. It aims to provide full offline access to all content in every Wikimedia Foundation wiki.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Features">Features</span>
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XOWA has several features:
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Displays all articles from a Wikimedia data dump.
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Works with English Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, as well as the non-English language counterparts (for example, French Wikipedia).
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Renders articles with full HTML formatting.
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Downloads images and other files on demand.
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Edits articles.
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Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry PI, and Android.
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Installs to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
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Is customizable and extendable at many levels: from keyboard shortcuts to HTML layouts to internal options.
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Is open-source under the AGPLv3 license.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Supported_wikis">Supported wikis</span>
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XOWA should work with any dump that has been generated by MediaWiki software. It has been personally tested for over 200 wikis, including:
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<a href="/site/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/">English Wikipedia</a>
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The English sister projects: <a href="/site/en.wiktionary.org/wiki/">Wiktionary</a>, <a href="/site/en.wikisource.org/wiki/">Wikisource</a>, <a href="/site/en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/">Wikivoyage</a>, <a href="/site/en.wikiquote.org/wiki/">Wikiquote</a>, <a href="/site/en.wikibooks.org/wiki/">Wikibooks</a>, <a href="/site/en.wikiversity.org/wiki/">Wikiversity</a> and <a href="https://en.wikinews.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikinews</a>
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Non-English Wikipedias including <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">German</a>, <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Spanish</a>, <a href="/site/fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/">French</a>, <a href="/site/it.wikipedia.org/wiki/">Italian</a>, <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Dutch</a>, <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Polish</a>, <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Russian</a>, <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Swedish</a>, <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Japanese</a>, <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Chinese</a>, <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Arabic</a>, <a href="https://la.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Latin</a>, and many more.
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Unique wikis including <a href="/site/commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/">Wikimedia Commons</a>, <a href="/site/www.wikidata.org/wiki/">Wikidata</a>, <a href="https://species.wikimedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikispecies</a>, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">MediaWiki</a>, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Meta-wiki</a>, <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Incubator</a>, <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">WikimediaFoundation</a>
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For a full list, see <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Import/Online" id="xolnki_2" title="Dashboard/Import/Online" class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Import/Online</a> and <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases" id="xolnki_3" title="Dashboard/Image databases">Dashboard/Image_databases</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Philosophy">Philosophy</span>
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XOWA is free software. The code is open source under the AGPLv3 license, and available to anyone for review or modification. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/License/Code" id="xolnki_4" title="Help/License/Code">Help/License/Code</a> for more information as well as <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa</a>.
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XOWA advocates free content. All documentation and project artifacts are provided under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/License/Docs" id="xolnki_5" title="Help/License/Docs">Help/License/Docs</a> for more information.
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XOWA values user privacy. It will never collect and upload personal information. It is designed to be run in a standalone environment, without any connection to the internet. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Privacy/Desktop" id="xolnki_6" title="Help/Privacy/Desktop">Help/Privacy/Desktop</a> for more information.
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<h3>Namespaces</h3>
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<a style="background-image: url(https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/xowa_logo.png);" href="http://xowa.org/" title="Visit the main page"></a>
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<h3>XOWA</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/index.html" title='Visit the main page'>Main page</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/screenshots.html" title='See screenshots of XOWA'>Screenshots</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qbXYXEH6M" title="See a video of XOWA Desktop in action">Video</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title='Download the XOWA application'>Download XOWA</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title='Download offline wikis and image databases'>Download wikis</a></li>
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<h3>Getting started</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA's system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia'>Simple Wikipedia</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up English Wikipedia'>English Wikipedia</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Other_wikis.html" title='Learn how to set up other Wikipedias'>Other Wikipedias</a></li>
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<h3>Android</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Android/Setup.html" title='Setup XOWA on your Android device'>Setup</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsMTBxGweUw" title="See a video of XOWA Android in action">Video</a></li>
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<h3>Help</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/About.html" title='Get more information about XOWA'>About</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents.html" title='View a list of help topics'>Contents</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Media.html" title='Read what others have written about XOWA'>Media</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Feedback.html" title='Questions? Comments? Leave feedback for XOWA'>Feedback</a></li>
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<h3>Blog</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog.html" title='Follow XOWA''s development process'>Current</a></li>
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<h3>Links</h3>
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<li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
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<h3>Donate</h3>
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<li><a href="https://archive.org/donate/index.php" title="Support archive.org!">archive.org</a></li><!-- listed first due to recent fire damages: http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/ -->
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<li><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector" title="Support Wikipedia!">Wikipedia</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Donate.html" title="Support XOWA!">XOWA</a></li>
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