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<span style='font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;'>Blog links</span><br>
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2017<br>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2017-04.html" id="xolnki_2" title="Blog/2017-04" class="xowa-visited">2017-04</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2017-03.html" id="xolnki_3" title="Blog/2017-03" class="xowa-visited">2017-03</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2017-02.html" id="xolnki_4" title="Blog/2017-02">2017-02</a>
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2016<br>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2017-01.html" id="xolnki_5" title="Blog/2017-01">2017-01</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-12.html" id="xolnki_6" title="Blog/2016-12">2016-12</a>
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<b>2016-11</b>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-10.html" id="xolnki_8" title="Blog/2016-10">2016-10</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-09.html" id="xolnki_9" title="Blog/2016-09">2016-09</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-08.html" id="xolnki_10" title="Blog/2016-08">2016-08</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-07.html" id="xolnki_11" title="Blog/2016-07">2016-07</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-06.html" id="xolnki_12" title="Blog/2016-06">2016-06</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/2016-05.html" id="xolnki_13" title="Blog/2016-05">2016-05</a>
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog/Archives.html" id="xolnki_14" title="Blog/Archives" class="xowa-visited">Archives</a>
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<a href="#Release:_NONE_.282016-11-27_22:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Release: NONE (2016-11-27 22:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_NONE_.282016-11-20_22:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Release: NONE (2016-11-20 22:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.11.2.1_.282016-11-13_20:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.11.2.1 (2016-11-13 20:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-10_French.2C_Polish.2C_Swedish.2C_Spanish_wikis._Also.2C_2016-11_English_Wikipedia"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-10 French, Polish, Swedish, Spanish wikis. Also, 2016-11 English Wikipedia</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_regression_errors.2C_including_bookmarks.2C_variants.2C_clicking_on_images.2C_and_wrong_number_of_reported_pages"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix regression errors, including bookmarks, variants, clicking on images, and wrong number of reported pages</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_various_minor_Wikibase_errors_with_geocoordinate.2C_time.2C_and_quantity"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix various minor Wikibase errors with geocoordinate, time, and quantity</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Make_minor_changes_to_Import.2FOffline_page"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Make minor changes to Import/Offline page</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Dev.29_Simplify_usage_of_XOWA_as_an_embeddable_parser"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">(Dev) Simplify usage of XOWA as an embeddable parser</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.11.3"><span class="tocnumber">3.6</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.11.3</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_BETA_v3.10.4.6_.282016-11-06_22:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release: BETA_v3.10.4.6 (2016-11-06 22:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_NONE_.282016-11-27_22:00_Sun.29">Release: NONE (2016-11-27 22:00 Sun)</span>
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This week is also a push. There were more changes, especially with Russian Wikipedia, but I can't give a release my full attention until next week.
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The 2016-11 Russian Wikis are up. I'll try to work on the 2016 Italian wikis next.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_NONE_.282016-11-20_22:00_Sun.29">Release: NONE (2016-11-20 22:00 Sun)</span>
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There is no release this week. I've worked on a few Page sync issues found by khanhhung2512 as well as a new application auto-updater. I may skip next week also due to the holiday season as well as some personal commitments.
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In the meantime, I uploaded 2016-11 German Wikipedia as well as the Dutch and Afrikaans Wikis. I'll be working on the Russian wikis and French Wikipedia.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.11.2.1_.282016-11-13_20:00_Sun.29">Release: v3.11.2.1 (2016-11-13 20:00 Sun)</span>
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The PC version is a minor release. It fixes some Wikibase parsing issues and handles some regression issues, notably bookmarks and variants.
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The Android version is a minor release. It also adds filtering to Download Central.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-10_French.2C_Polish.2C_Swedish.2C_Spanish_wikis._Also.2C_2016-11_English_Wikipedia">(Wiki) Publish 2016-10 French, Polish, Swedish, Spanish wikis. Also, 2016-11 English Wikipedia</span>
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As it's been a few weeks since the last release, there have been several wiki releases since then.
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A bare-bones listing is at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Wiki_setup/Listing.html" id="xolnki_15" title="Wiki setup/Listing">Wiki_setup/Listing</a>. Of course, you can also check <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_16" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Special:XowaDownloadCentral</a>
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A special thanks to Ope30 for downloading and testing all these wikis.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_regression_errors.2C_including_bookmarks.2C_variants.2C_clicking_on_images.2C_and_wrong_number_of_reported_pages">(PC) Fix regression errors, including bookmarks, variants, clicking on images, and wrong number of reported pages</span>
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There were a number of regression errors that have crept in over the last few releases. Namely, these are:
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<a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaBookmarks.html" id="xolnki_17" title="Special:XowaBookmarks">Special:XowaBookmarks</a> was not working
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Variant support for Chinese and Serbian languages were not working. For example: <code>-{zh-hans:computer; zh-hant:ELECTRONICBRAIN;}-</code>
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Clicking on images would not open up a simulation of a Wikimedia Commons page
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The total number of pages was reported incorrectly
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These have been fixed in this release. Thanks to khanhhung2512 and another anonymous user for reporting these issues.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_various_minor_Wikibase_errors_with_geocoordinate.2C_time.2C_and_quantity">(PC) Fix various minor Wikibase errors with geocoordinate, time, and quantity</span>
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There were some minor Wikibase issues. The most notable of these involved time data which caused script errors on all Polish Wikipedia Software pages. The rest involved many fewer pages (&lt; 100).
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To get more info on these, see <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Change_log/v3.11.2.1.html" id="xolnki_18" title="Change log/v3.11.2.1">Change log/v3.11.2.1</a> and the Wikibase entries
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Make_minor_changes_to_Import.2FOffline_page">(PC) Make minor changes to Import/Offline page</span>
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There were a number of minor issues with the Import/Offline page, primarily due to the Category changes in 2016-09. I made a few changes to eliminate redundant downloads as well as to intelligently detect dump files. However, I'll probably make more in the coming months when time permits.
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Again, thanks go to khanhhung2512 and another anonymous user for reporting these issues.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Dev.29_Simplify_usage_of_XOWA_as_an_embeddable_parser">(Dev) Simplify usage of XOWA as an embeddable parser</span>
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XOWA now supports usage as an embeddable parser in other apps. More information is at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dev/Parser/Embeddable.html" id="xolnki_19" title="Dev/Parser/Embeddable">Dev/Parser/Embeddable</a>
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Thanks here are due to Rüdiger Gleim for suggesting the interface as well as providing valuable feedback
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.11.3">Next release: v3.11.3</span>
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<b>Wikis</b>: I'm generating wikis for the 2016-11 German Wikipedia as well as 2016-11 Dutch Wikis.
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<b>Light schedule</b>: The schedule will continue to be light. I'm currently working on rewriting the Options system. I'll try to add in some exploratory work on full-text search as well as improve Page Sync.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_BETA_v3.10.4.6_.282016-11-06_22:00_Sun.29">Release: BETA_v3.10.4.6 (2016-11-06 22:00 Sun)</span>
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I'm postponing the official release to next week. There are still only a handful of issues, and unfortunately, I don't have the time this week to do a full release.
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However, I am pushing out a BETA release. This is the same as a regular release, except:
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I haven't documented all the changes in the Change Log or readme.txt (so you'll only know what's included from a short list at <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases</a>)
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I haven't tested the release fully (so some of the new items may not work)
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I won't be able to fix any unexpected regression bugs (so if there is a new critical bug, you should just rollback to the old v3.10.4.1 build)
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If you want to give it a try, get it from <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/BETA_v3.10.4.6" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/BETA_v3.10.4.6</a>
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Otherwise, you can wait for the next release for next Sunday evening.
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For wikis, I uploaded Swedish and Spanish. I'm going to work on 2016-11 next. See: <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/95" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/95</a>
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<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>
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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&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>
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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>
<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>
<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>
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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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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-links'>
<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>
<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>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-donate'>
<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/ -->
<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>
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