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2016<br>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-10.html" id="xolnki_2" title="Blog/2016-10" class="xowa-visited">2016-10</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-09.html" id="xolnki_3" title="Blog/2016-09">2016-09</a>
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<b>2016-08</b>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-07.html" id="xolnki_5" title="Blog/2016-07">2016-07</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-06.html" id="xolnki_6" title="Blog/2016-06">2016-06</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-05.html" id="xolnki_7" title="Blog/2016-05">2016-05</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-04.html" id="xolnki_8" title="Blog/2016-04">2016-04</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-03.html" id="xolnki_9" title="Blog/2016-03">2016-03</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-02.html" id="xolnki_10" title="Blog/2016-02">2016-02</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-01.html" id="xolnki_11" title="Blog/2016-01">2016-01</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/Archives.html" id="xolnki_12" title="Blog/Archives">Archives</a>
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Contents
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<a href="#Release:_v3.8.5.1_.282016-08-29_21:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.8.5.1 (2016-08-29 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-08_English_Wikipedia_and_German_Wikipedia"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-08 English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC_.2F_Android.29_Better_html_database_support_for_packed_galleries.2C_video_thumbnails.2C_and_image_maps"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC / Android) Better html database support for packed galleries, video thumbnails, and image maps</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Support_the_lsth_parser_function"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Support the lsth parser function</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Add_torrent_link_.2F_MD5_info_to_the_Download_Central_Info_page"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Add torrent link / MD5 info to the Download Central Info page</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.9.1"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.9.1</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_POSTPONED_.282016-08-28_22:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Release: POSTPONED (2016-08-28 22:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_NONE_.282016-08-21_20:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Release: NONE (2016-08-21 20:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.8.3.1_.282016-08-14_20:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.8.3.1 (2016-08-14 20:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Android.29_Fix_app_crash_when_starting_XOWA:_Unable_to_start_activity_ComponentInfo.7Borg.xowa.2Forg.wikipedia.page.PageActivity.7D"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Fix app crash when starting XOWA: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.xowa/org.wikipedia.page.PageActivity}</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.8.4"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.8.4</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.8.2.1_.282016-08-07_19:30_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.8.2.1 (2016-08-07 19:30 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_Polish_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 Polish Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_random_.22SSL_peer_shut_down_incorrectly.22_when_downloading_database_dumps"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix random "SSL peer shut down incorrectly" when downloading database dumps</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_.22Script_error:Module:Effective_protection_expiry.22_for_many_English_Wikipedia_pages"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix "Script error:Module:Effective protection expiry" for many English Wikipedia pages</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_parser_issues_for_Polish_Wikipedia_pages.2C_including_location_maps_and_broken_infoboxes"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix parser issues for Polish Wikipedia pages, including location maps and broken infoboxes</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.8.3"><span class="tocnumber">5.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.8.3</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.8.1.1_.282016-07-31_19:30_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.8.1.1 (2016-07-31 19:30 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_Arabic_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 Arabic Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_.22invalid_title.22_when_clicking_on_wikis_in_left-hand_nav"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix "invalid title" when clicking on wikis in left-hand nav</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Minor_wikibase_update_for_.22renderSnaks.22"><span class="tocnumber">6.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Minor wikibase update for "renderSnaks"</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Android.29_Fix_random_failure_when_restarting_XOWA_while_downloading_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">6.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Fix random failure when restarting XOWA while downloading wikis</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.8.2"><span class="tocnumber">6.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.8.2</span></a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.8.5.1_.282016-08-29_21:00_Sun.29">Release: v3.8.5.1 (2016-08-29 21:00 Sun)</span>
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The PC version is a major release. It adds better html database support for certain images, handles the lsth parser function, and makes minor changes to the Download Central Info page
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The Android version is a major release. It also includes the same better support for certain images.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-08_English_Wikipedia_and_German_Wikipedia">(Wiki) Publish 2016-08 English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia</span>
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The 2016-08 versions of both wikis are finally up. You can get them through <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_13" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC_.2F_Android.29_Better_html_database_support_for_packed_galleries.2C_video_thumbnails.2C_and_image_maps">(PC / Android) Better html database support for packed galleries, video thumbnails, and image maps</span>
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There was a small percentage (&lt; .1%) of images that didn't appear in the HTML databases. These include the following:
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<b>Packed galleries</b>: Certain galleries are marked as "packed". These galleries are dynamically resized to fill up as much space as possible. For example: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico</a>
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<b>Video thumbnails for .ogg files</b>: The .ogg extension is generally used for audio files, but a small number of video files use the .ogg extension. For example: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera</a>
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<b>Image map buttons</b>: Image maps usually have an information button that says "Click for more info". For example: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines</a>
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The fix for the first two items required a major change to the HTML database format. The following is a brief (though technical) summary:
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Wikitext metadata is no longer embededded with the images; previously an HTML attribute was embedded with this info. For example, <code>&lt;img data-xowa-image="0|220|110|-1|-1"</code>.
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All orig_image info is early-resolved at HTML-generation time; previously, orig_image info was late-resolved at HTML-view time.
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All file-related HTML is now correctly generated at HTML-generation time; previously, it was "guessed" at HTML-generation time. Note that this "guess" was 99.9% correct, but failed for things like "a .ogg file which is actually a video"
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From a general user standpoint, this change should be entirely transparent. v3.8.5 will work with both the old HTML databases as well as the new ones. However, any version earlier v3.8.4 and earlier will not work with the new HTML databases.
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Finally, the 2016-08 English and German Wikipedia are the first wikis to use the multi-threaded builder. This allowed me to cut down the English Wikipedia generation time from 80 hours to 12 hours (with 2 high-grade 8-core machines). This was a significant under-the-cover change, but hopefully most of the kinks have been worked out.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Support_the_lsth_parser_function">(PC) Support the lsth parser function</span>
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I discovered that a number of English Wikipedia pages used the {{#lsth}} function. In brief, this function includes a section from another page on the current page. For example: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10s_BC" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10s_BC</a> . I ended up rewriting the lst functions to support this behavior.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Add_torrent_link_.2F_MD5_info_to_the_Download_Central_Info_page">(PC) Add torrent link / MD5 info to the Download Central Info page</span>
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Based on some welcome feedback from malakov1, I added a torrent link to the Download Central Info page. For example, <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentralInfo%3Ftask_id%3D96.html" id="xolnki_14" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentralInfo?task id=96">Special:XowaDownloadCentralInfo?task id=96</a>. Note that these torrent links are to the full archive.org folder, not the task. In particular, the following two types will be included:
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<b>Old database dumps</b>: I keep at least one old set around. Otherwise, users who are downloading an old set will be suddenly cut off when a new set is published.
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<b>Other wikis</b>: All wikis for a language are saved in a given folder. For example, <a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/</a> has German Wikipedia, but also German Wiktionary, German Wikisource, etc.
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In most cases, you will need to manually exclude files from the torrent. Most torrent programs support this feature. For example, in qBittorrent do the following:
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Download the torrent: <a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/Xowa_dewiki_latest_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://archive.org/download/Xowa_dewiki_latest/Xowa_dewiki_latest_archive.torrent</a>
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Click on the torrent in the main pain
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Click the "Content" button near the bottom of the window
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Uncheck the files you're not interested in
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In addition, the Download Central Info page now includes MD5 and file size info.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.9.1">Next release: v3.9.1</span>
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<b>Wikis</b>: I'm going to keep this week light and work on the Czech wikis..
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<b>Dynamic update of wiki pages</b>: A primitive version of this functionality is included in this release, but it's disabled by default. If you want to try it, I'll post more information at <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/72" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/72</a> . Otherwise, I plan to finish it up for the next release.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_POSTPONED_.282016-08-28_22:00_Sun.29">Release: POSTPONED (2016-08-28 22:00 Sun)</span>
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<p>
I'm postponing the release till tomorrow night. I uploaded 2016-08 English and German Wikipedia, but there are a few minor tweaks I want to make before release.
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Thanks.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_NONE_.282016-08-21_20:00_Sun.29">Release: NONE (2016-08-21 20:00 Sun)</span>
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I'm skipping the release this week. I'm still working on the 2016-08 English Wikipedia. I am close, but I still don't have a clean HTML dump yet. Please check again next week.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.8.3.1_.282016-08-14_20:00_Sun.29">Release: v3.8.3.1 (2016-08-14 20:00 Sun)</span>
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<p>
The PC version has no release.
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The Android version has a trivial release to fix an uncommon crash when starting XOWA.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Android.29_Fix_app_crash_when_starting_XOWA:_Unable_to_start_activity_ComponentInfo.7Borg.xowa.2Forg.wikipedia.page.PageActivity.7D">(Android) Fix app crash when starting XOWA: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.xowa/org.wikipedia.page.PageActivity}</span>
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Some quick details:
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I've received two reports of this crash, but haven't been able to reproduce it.
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The crash would occur when XOWA is starting. I think it has to do with resuming XOWA after Android has slept.
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Starting XOWA a second time would work without a problem.
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For this version, I added better guards against null references around the cited code. Thanks to the anonymous users who sent me the crash reports
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.8.4">Next release: v3.8.4</span>
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<b>Wikis</b>: I didn't finish 2016-08 English Wikipedia this week. I'm making a lot of significant changes to handle several minor issues. They primarily affect packed galleries, image maps, and certain video files (particularly .ogg ones). I should be on schedule for releasing 2016-08 English Wikipedia for next Monday's release.
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<b>Dynamic update of wiki pages</b>: I didn't do anything on this issue this week as English Wikipedia took all my time. I'll put aside time for this week.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.8.2.1_.282016-08-07_19:30_Sun.29">Release: v3.8.2.1 (2016-08-07 19:30 Sun)</span>
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<p>
The PC version is a major release. It fixes random "SSL peer shut down incorrectly" when downloading, "Script Error:Module Protection expiry" on many en.w pages, and some parser issues on pl.w.
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<p>
The Android version has no release.
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<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_Polish_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 Polish Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span>
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The 2016-07 versions of the Polish wikis are up. You can get them through <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_15" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_random_.22SSL_peer_shut_down_incorrectly.22_when_downloading_database_dumps">(PC) Fix random "SSL peer shut down incorrectly" when downloading database dumps</span>
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<p>
In the past week, XOWA would fail while downloading database dumps from the Wikimedia servers at <a href="https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html</a> . After some investigation, it looks like Wikimedia is currently resetting all connections at the 17 and 47 minute mark of every hour (EX: 1:17, 1:47, 2:17, 2:47, etc.) . For more info, see <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2016-August/001325.html" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2016-August/001325.html</a>
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As the issue is still ongoing, I'm going to point XOWA to default to <a href="http://your.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://your.org</a> instead. Note that your.org is an official backup as per <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps</a> .
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If you want to change your.org to point elsewhere, do the following:
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Go to home/wiki/Options/Import
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Change "Dump servers" to the following
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https://dumps.wikimedia.org/,
http://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/,
http://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/,
http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/wikimedia/
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Press "Save"
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Many thanks to Kevin Day and your.org for their assistance and support with this issue.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_.22Script_error:Module:Effective_protection_expiry.22_for_many_English_Wikipedia_pages">(PC) Fix "Script error:Module:Effective protection expiry" for many English Wikipedia pages</span>
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<p>
The 2016-07-20 version of English Wikipedia would show "Script error" on many pages. This was due to a minor typo on my side for "infinite" vs "infinity". It is fixed with of this release.
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<p>
Thanks to William to reporting this issue.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_parser_issues_for_Polish_Wikipedia_pages.2C_including_location_maps_and_broken_infoboxes">(PC) Fix parser issues for Polish Wikipedia pages, including location maps and broken infoboxes</span>
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<p>
Polish Wikipedia required two major changes:
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Location maps weren't showing due to issues with JSON parsing.
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Some infoboxes were garbled because of incorrect parsing of &lt;ref%&gt; tags.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.8.3">Next release: v3.8.3</span>
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<b>Wikis</b>: I'm working on 2016-08 English Wikipedia now, and want to add a few fixes for this HTML dump release. Unfortunately, the new HTML generator is not ready yet, so English Wikipedia will probably take the full week.
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<b>Dynamic update of wiki pages</b>: I added "wikimedia API" calls this week. I'm going to work on recursively parsing all templates for this week.requested in <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/72" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/72</a> . This will probably take a few weeks. For next week, I'm going to work on the simpler "wikimedia API" calls
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<b>Redlinks for HTTP Server</b>: This has kept slipping for a few weeks. I'm going to table this for now, and come back to it later.
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<b>mwad integration with the status bar</b>: I'm also tabling this as well.
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</ul>
<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.8.1.1_.282016-07-31_19:30_Sun.29">Release: v3.8.1.1 (2016-07-31 19:30 Sun)</span>
</h2>
<p>
The PC version is a minor release. It fixes a bug with "invalid title" when clicking on the left-hand sidebar.
</p>
<p>
The Android version is a minor release. It fixes a random crash when restarting the app while downloading wikis
</p>
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_Arabic_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 Arabic Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span>
</h3>
<p>
The 2016-07 versions of the Arabic wikis are up. You can get them through <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_16" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
</p>
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_.22invalid_title.22_when_clicking_on_wikis_in_left-hand_nav">(PC) Fix "invalid title" when clicking on wikis in left-hand nav</span>
</h3>
<p>
This was kindly reported by markusmaresch in <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/73" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/73</a> . Basically, clicking on a wiki in the left-hand sidebar would fail with "invalid title". This was due to some changes I made with the UI in a recent release.
</p>
<p>
v3.8.1 fixes the issue
</p>
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Minor_wikibase_update_for_.22renderSnaks.22">(PC) Minor wikibase update for "renderSnaks"</span>
</h3>
<p>
Wikidata (www.wikidata.org), or "Wikibase", is a continually evolving project. French Wikipedia started using two new methods recently: renderSnaks and renderSnak. I added support for these calls in this release. I also cleaned up some Wikibase code.
</p>
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Android.29_Fix_random_failure_when_restarting_XOWA_while_downloading_wikis">(Android) Fix random failure when restarting XOWA while downloading wikis</span>
</h3>
<p>
A helpful anonymous user forwarded me a crash report for XOWA Android. Sometimes, XOWA Android would fail to restart when in the process of downloading wikis from Download Central. This was broken since the initial release of Download Central.
</p>
<p>
This fix was pushed out by a separate Play Store release last week. It is included formally in the apk-build now.
</p>
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.8.2">Next release: v3.8.2</span>
</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<b>Wikis</b>: I'm going to work on Polish this week.
</li>
<li>
<b>New HTML database generator</b>: I'm still been plugging away at the HTML generator. It's closer to 99% now, and I'll start phasing it in over the next few releases.
</li>
<li>
<b>Dynamic update of wiki pages</b>: This was requested in <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/72" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/72</a> . This will probably take a few weeks. For next week, I'm going to work on the simpler "wikimedia API" calls.
</li>
<li>
<b>Redlinks for HTTP Server</b>: This too has also slipped another week.
</li>
<li>
<b>mwad integration with the status bar</b>: Another week of slippage here as well.
</li>
</ul>
</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&apos;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="" title="Support XOWA! (but only after you've supported archive.org and Wikipedia)">XOWA</a></li> -->
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
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