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<a href="#Release:_v3.4.4.1_(2016-04-24_19:30_Sun)"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.4.1 (2016-04-24 19:30 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#(Package)_Update_German_wikis_(2016-04):_https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Package) Update German wikis (2016-04): https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest</span></a>
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<a href="#(Android)_Fix_for_missing_file-user.xowa_database"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Fix for missing file-user.xowa database</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_Minor_parser_changes_and_fixes,_including_using_non-ASCII_strings_for_gsub_find"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Minor parser changes and fixes, including using non-ASCII strings for gsub find</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.5.1"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.5.1</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.4.3.1_(2016-04-17_21:00_Sun)"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.3.1 (2016-04-17 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#(Android)_XOWA_Android_app_on_Play_Store"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) XOWA Android app on Play Store</span></a>
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<a href="#(Android)_Kit-Kat_support_for_Android_app"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Kit-Kat support for Android app</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_Minor_changes_and_fixes,_including_missing_random_sub-pages_in_Portal,_missing_Wikis_sidebar_in_home_wiki_and_no_{{DisplayTitle}}"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</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="#(Desktop)_New_http://xowa.org_domain_with_entire_home_wiki"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) New http://xowa.org domain with entire home wiki</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.4.4"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.4</span></a>
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<a href="#Patch:_Missing_wikis_in_sidebar_(2016-04-13_21:34_Wed)"><span class="tocnumber">3</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_(2016-04-10_21:00_Sun)"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.2.1 (2016-04-10 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_Faster_search_database_build"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Faster search database build</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_New_English_Wikipedia_images_update_(2016-03)"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) New English Wikipedia images update (2016-03)</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_Minor_Wikia_parser_tags"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Minor Wikia parser tags</span></a>
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<a href="#(Android)_New_pages_for_"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) New pages for "Import new wiki" and "XOWA Wikis"</span></a>
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<a href="#(Android)_Minor_fixes_for_crashes_/_obsoleted_items"><span class="tocnumber">4.5</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">4.6</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.3</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.4.1.1_(2016-04-04_20:00_Sun)"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.4.1.1 (2016-04-04 20:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_Fixes_for_old_.sqlite3_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Fixes for old .sqlite3 wikis</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_Fix_for_offline_import_of_large_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Fix for offline import of large wikis</span></a>
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<a href="#(Desktop)_Command_to_shrink_English_Wikipedia_images_by_8_GB"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Desktop) Command to shrink English Wikipedia images by 8 GB</span></a>
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<a href="#(Package)_Release_of_French_Wikipedia_2016-03"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</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">5.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.4.2</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_NONE_(2016-04-03_22:00_Sun)"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Release: NONE (2016-04-03 22:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.4.4.1_(2016-04-24_19:30_Sun)">Release: v3.4.4.1 (2016-04-24 19:30 Sun)</span>
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The desktop app is a trivial release. It has a few minor parser fixes, primarily for German Wikipedia.
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The Android app is a minor release. It has one significant fix for not requiring one database: file-xowa. This will only be necessary for the German wikis
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<span class="mw-headline" id="(Package)_Update_German_wikis_(2016-04):_https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest">(Package) Update German wikis (2016-04): <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest</a></span>
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I updated the German wikis this week. You can find them at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest</a> Note the following:
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The images are an update to the 2015-09 set. If you already have the 2015-09 set, just download the 2016-04 update: <a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/Xowa_dewiki_2016-04-07_file_update.7z" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/Xowa_dewiki_2016-04-07_file_update.7z</a>
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For Android, download all the de.wikipedia.org files in <a href="/wiki/Android/Setup" id="xolnki_8" title="Android/Setup">Android/Setup</a>
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For the other German wikis, the process is similar. Download <a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/Xowa_debundle_2016-04-07.7z" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/Xowa_debundle_2016-04-07.7z</a> and copy the files to your microSD card.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="(Android)_Fix_for_missing_file-user.xowa_database">(Android) Fix for missing file-user.xowa database</span>
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The Android app would crash if it was missing this database: *-file-user.xowa. See <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/36#issuecomment-172292021" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/36#issuecomment-172292021</a> .
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Here's the short version:
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If you are planning to use the German wikis, or want to be prepared for future dumps (English Wiktionary), you should install v3.4.4.
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Here's the long version:
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XOWA desktop allows you to download the original versions of images for offline viewing
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You can download these original versions by clicking on any image in an article
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These images are stored in a file like en.wikipedia.org-file-user.xowa
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XOWA's file database system requires that this database is always present.
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If the file-user.xowa is not present, XOWA creates one automatically.
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All XOWA packages on archive.org do not include file-user.xowa
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I don't include this file, because I don't want to overwrite a pre-existing file-user.xowa when a user upgrades to a new package.
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I was relying on the auto-create mechanism to create a file-user.xowa.
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However, on Android, all apps have extremely limited write permissions. On an external SD card, they can only write to one directory: /<sd_card_mount>/Android/data/<package_name>
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If there was no file-user.xowa, XOWA Android tried to create it. Because of the limited write permissions, it crashed when it couldn't do so.
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v3.4.4 still tries to create the file-user.xowa file, but no longer crashes if it can't.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="(Desktop)_Minor_parser_changes_and_fixes,_including_using_non-ASCII_strings_for_gsub_find">(Desktop) Minor parser changes and fixes, including using non-ASCII strings for gsub find</span>
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These are a bunch of minor parser fixes for German Wikipedia. They affect a small number of pages (<100) and don't affect content. The most interesting item is that it required another change to <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/luaj/" rel="nofollow" class="external text">LuaJ</a>. It mistakenly disregarded UTF8 byte encoding for bytes between 128 and 255. This caused gsub and similar calls to fail when using non-ASCII characters, like "ß"
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.5.1">Next release: v3.5.1</span>
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I'm working on a new wiki update tool which will make setting up the databases much easier on Android.
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For wikis, I'm going to update the rest of the English wikis. I'm also going to try to fit French in.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.4.3.1_(2016-04-17_21:00_Sun)">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="(Android)_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="/wiki/Android/Setup" id="xolnki_9" title="Android/Setup">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="(Android)_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="(Desktop)_Minor_changes_and_fixes,_including_missing_random_sub-pages_in_Portal,_missing_Wikis_sidebar_in_home_wiki_and_no_{{DisplayTitle}}">(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="(Desktop)_New_http://xowa.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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</p>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<p>
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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> -> <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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</p>
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<h3>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.4.4">Next release: v3.4.4</span>
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</h3>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<p>
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<br>
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</p>
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<h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Patch:_Missing_wikis_in_sidebar_(2016-04-13_21:34_Wed)">Patch: Missing wikis in sidebar (2016-04-13 21:34 Wed)</span>
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</h2>
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<p>
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This is a patch for a defect in v3.4.2.1.
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</p>
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<p>
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v3.4.2.1 updated the CSS for the home wiki to fix a narrow search box. See <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/54" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/54</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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Unfortunately, this CSS also removed the wiki sidebar in the home wiki. I didn't notice this until yesterday.
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</p>
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<p>
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The patch updates one file: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/cfg/app/xowa.gfs . Just replace your version with it.
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</p>
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<p>
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You can also change this manually by finding the div_logo snippet and updating with the snippet below.
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</p>
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<p>
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This will be part of the next release. I didn't want to release an entire new version for a one-line text-file fix.
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</p>
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<p>
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Thanks.
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</p>
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<pre>
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div_logo =
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<:["
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<div id='p-logo'>
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<a style="background-image: url(~{portal_logo_url});" href="~{portal_nav_main_href}" class='xowa-hover-off'~{<>msgs.get_html_accesskey_and_title('p-logo');<>}></a>
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</div>
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<div class="portal"><h3></h3></div><!-- empty heading else wikipedia css will hide next <h3> after <div id='p-logo'>; DATE:2016-04-12-->
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"]:>
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</pre>
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<h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.4.2.1_(2016-04-10_21:00_Sun)">Release: v3.4.2.1 (2016-04-10 21:00 Sun)</span>
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</h2>
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<p>
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The desktop app is a minor release. It has a fix for slow search database builds and some better Wikia support
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</p>
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<p>
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The Android app is a major release. It has new pages for importing a wiki. It is the release candidate for XOWA beta on Google Play later this week.
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</p>
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<h3>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="(Desktop)_Faster_search_database_build">(Desktop) Faster search database build</span>
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</h3>
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<p>
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As per <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/53" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/53</a> William was unable to build the new search databases on his machine. I tried it on an older dev machine, and found that it could take upwards of 5 hours to complete.
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</p>
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<p>
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I optimized some of the SQL code and reduced it to about 2 hours. That said, note the following:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<b>Fails on my 32-bit Windows XP dev machine</b>: I don't know why. The same build works on 2 Windows 7 64-bit machines, 1 openSUSE Linux 64-bit machine, and 1 Mac OS X 64-bit machine. It also works on the 32-bit JVM on the Windows 7 64-bit machine. However, the lone 32-bit Windows machine fails, and fails in a very strange way (it fails silently in release mode, and hangs in debug mode). I'm going to hope this is the non-dominant behavior, and reinvestigate at a later point in time.
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</li>
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<li>
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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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</li>
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<li>
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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="/wiki/App/Search" id="xolnki_10" title="App/Search">App/Search</a>). As such, the easiest way is to download prebuilt copies from archive.org:
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<ul>
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<li>
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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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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2016-03-05_wiki_xtn_search.7z" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2016-03-05_wiki_xtn_search.7z</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="(Desktop)_New_English_Wikipedia_images_update_(2016-03)">(Desktop) New English Wikipedia images update (2016-03)</span>
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</h3>
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<p>
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|
I uploaded new consolidated versions of English Wikipedia images (2016-03) to archive.org. See <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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|
In terms of usage, pick one of the following:
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|
</p>
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|
<ul>
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<li>
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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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|
</li>
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|
<li>
|
|
<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="/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion" id="xolnki_11" title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion">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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</li>
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|
<li>
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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.
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p>
|
|
Finally, after I release XOWA Beta for Android, I'm going to work on a new update feature that will more gracefully handle monthly updates. In the meantime, please bear with the manual process.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="(Desktop)_Minor_Wikia_parser_tags">(Desktop) Minor Wikia parser tags</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
A user requested some parser functionality for Wikia wikis (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnosygnu" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnosygnu</a> . This release now supports the <choose> and <tabber> extensions.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="(Android)_New_pages_for_">(Android) New pages for "Import new wiki" and "XOWA Wikis"</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
The last major piece for XOWA Beta was more usable screens for importing wikis and managing wikis. Both these pages are now part of the latest release:
|
|
</p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<b>XOWA Wikis</b>: The "XOWA" button in the left-nav now opens a page that lists all wikis. It also allows you to import a new one by pressing the "+" icon.
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<b>Import new wikis</b>: The "Import" screen got a new design overhaul to make it much prettier and more intuitive. A lot of thanks goes to anonymous4 for helping with layout and feedback.
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="(Android)_Minor_fixes_for_crashes_/_obsoleted_items">(Android) Minor fixes for crashes / obsoleted items</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
There were two minor crashes that would occur when using the left-nav button. The main one was pressing "Random" when on the "Import" screen
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
I also removed two features: "Nearby" and "Log in to Wikipedia". Neither of these seem useful for offline XOWA, and I didn't want them taking up screen real-estate.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.4.3">Next release: v3.4.3</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
I'm planning on releasing XOWA Android Beta on Google Play mid-week. I'm sure that there will be spillover work that leads to another Android app update next week.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
For wikis, the Wikimedia dump server is stalled again. I'm going to wait for it to resume before continuing with German Wikipedia.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
<br>
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h2>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.4.1.1_(2016-04-04_20:00_Sun)">Release: v3.4.1.1 (2016-04-04 20:00 Sun)</span>
|
|
</h2>
|
|
<p>
|
|
The desktop app is a minor release. It has a few fixes related to old .sqlite3 wikis and offline imports.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
The Android app has not been changed.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="(Desktop)_Fixes_for_old_.sqlite3_wikis">(Desktop) Fixes for old .sqlite3 wikis</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
As reported in <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/xowa/discussion/defects/thread/f142ca23/" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://sourceforge.net/p/xowa/discussion/defects/thread/f142ca23/</a> v3.3.4 did not work for old .sqlite3 wikis. These wikis were phased out last year (in 2015-04), but I didn't want to drop support for them entirely.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
v3.4.1 has 2 fixes for the following:
|
|
</p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<b>Open old .sqlite3 wikis</b>: Previously, XOWA would just show a blank page
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<b>Allow old .sqlite3 wikis to upgrade to the new search system</b>: Previously, XOWA would keep prompting to upgrade
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="(Desktop)_Fix_for_offline_import_of_large_wikis">(Desktop) Fix for offline import of large wikis</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
This was reported in a separate ticket: <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/51" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/51</a> Basically, the new search system caused offline imports to fail for large wikis. A large wiki is defined as one with a dump file of 1.5 GB.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
v3.4.1 fixes this issue. I tested with English Wikisource 2016-03: <a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikisource/20160305/" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikisource/20160305/</a>
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="(Desktop)_Command_to_shrink_English_Wikipedia_images_by_8_GB">(Desktop) Command to shrink English Wikipedia images by 8 GB</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
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.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
If you have English Wikipedia and have been following along with the updates, go to <a href="/wiki/Dashboard/Files/Deletion" id="xolnki_12" title="Dashboard/Files/Deletion">Dashboard/Files/Deletion</a> and follow the instructions therein.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="(Package)_Release_of_French_Wikipedia_2016-03">(Package) Release of French Wikipedia 2016-03</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
I had a request to update French Wikipedia, but have been delaying it for several weeks. I updated French Wiki and uploaded it here: <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_frwiki_latest" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/details/Xowa_frwiki_latest</a>
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h3>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.4.2">Next release: v3.4.2</span>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
I'm planning to work on Android-only matters and release a "beta" app on Google play. For wikis, I'll update German Wikipedia.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>
|
|
<br>
|
|
</p>
|
|
<h2>
|
|
<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_NONE_(2016-04-03_22:00_Sun)">Release: NONE (2016-04-03 22:00 Sun)</span>
|
|
</h2>
|
|
<p>
|
|
Sory all. I'm postponing the release for tomorrow night. I'll post again tomorrow evening. Thanks.
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<div id="mw-head" class="noprint">
|
|
<div id="left-navigation">
|
|
<div id="p-namespaces" class="vectorTabs">
|
|
<h3>Namespaces</h3>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"><span><a id="ca-nstab-main-href" href="index.html">Page</a></span></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div id='mw-panel' class='noprint'>
|
|
<div id='p-logo'>
|
|
<a style="background-image: url(https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/xowa_logo.png);" href="http://xowa.org/" title="Visit the main page"></a>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-home'>
|
|
<h3>XOWA</h3>
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/index.html" title='Visit the main page'>Main page</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/screenshots.html" title='See screenshots of XOWA'>Screenshots</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qbXYXEH6M" title="See a video of XOWA Desktop in action">Video</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title='Download the XOWA application'>Download XOWA</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title='Download offline wikis and image databases'>Download wikis</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-started'>
|
|
<h3>Getting started</h3>
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA's system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
|
|
<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>
|
|
<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>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-android'>
|
|
<h3>Android</h3>
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Android/Setup.html" title='Setup XOWA on your Android device'>Setup</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsMTBxGweUw" title="See a video of XOWA Android in action">Video</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-help'>
|
|
<h3>Help</h3>
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/About.html" title='Get more information about XOWA'>About</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents.html" title='View a list of help topics'>Contents</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Media.html" title='Read what others have written about XOWA'>Media</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Feedback.html" title='Questions? Comments? Leave feedback for XOWA'>Feedback</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-blog'>
|
|
<h3>Blog</h3>
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog.html" title='Follow XOWA''s development process'>Current</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-links'>
|
|
<h3>Links</h3>
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-donate'>
|
|
<h3>Donate</h3>
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<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/ -->
|
|
<li><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector" title="Support Wikipedia!">Wikipedia</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Donate.html" title="Support XOWA!">XOWA</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
</body>
|
|
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