# Main Page

From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application

## Summary

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

XOWA showing Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia

## Features

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

## Recent News

2016-04-16 XOWA app released on Google Play

- XOWA Android app

2016-04-04 French Wikipedia 2016-03 update released

- French Wikipedia update

2016-03-20 English Wikipedia 2016-03 update released

- English Wikipedia update

2016-02-21 English Wikipedia 2016-02 update released

- English Wikipedia update

2016-02-06 English wikis released

- English Wikipedia update

2016-01-17 Android app beta released

- Android app instructions

2015-12-27 Russian wiki updates released

- Russian wikis

2015-12-20 Englis Wikipedia 2015-12 updates released

- English Wikipedia

2015-12-13 Arabic wiki updates released

- Arabic wikis

2015-12-07 Italian wiki updates released

- Italian wikis

2015-11-29 Dutch and Latin wiki updates released

- Dutch wikis
- Latin wikis

2015-11-22 French, Lithuanian, Limburgish, Estonian, Latvian, Nynorsk, and Cebuano wiki updates released

- French wikis
- Lithuanian wikis
- Limburgish wikis
- Estonian wikis
- Latvian wikis
- Nynorsk wikis
- Cebuano wikis

2015-11-15 Slovak, Slovenian, Galician and Waray-Waray wiki updates released

- Slovak wikis
- Slovenian wikis
- Galician wikis
- Waray-Waray wikis

2015-11-08 Danish, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian and Estonian wiki updates released

- Danish wikis
- Serbo-Croatian wikis
- Croatian wikis
- Estonian wikis

2015-11-02 English Wikipedia, Hebrew, Norwegian and Vietnamese wiki updates released

- English Wikipedia
- Hewbrew wikis
- Norwegian wikis
- Vietnamese wikis

2015-10-18 Serbian, Bulgarian and Malay wiki updates released

- Serbian wikis
- Malay wikis
- Bulgarian wikis

### XOWA

- Main page
- Screenshots
- Download XOWA
- Download wikis

### Getting started

- Requirements
- Installation
- Simple Wikipedia
- English Wikipedia
- Other Wikipedias

### Android

- Setup

### Help

- About
- Contents
- Media
- Feedback

### Blog

- Current

### Links

- Wikimedia dumps
- XOWA @ archive.org
- English Wikipedia

### Donate

- archive.org
- Wikipedia