Download wikis
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Credits
XOWA would like to thank archive.org for generously hosting these files on their servers.
Files
Information [8]
Package types
XOWA releases 2 different types of packages.
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.xowa: This is the new package type. These files should all go into the wiki folder.[9]
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For example, English Wikipedia .xowa files should go to
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org. It would have files like the following:-
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-core.xowa -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-text-ns.000.xowa -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-file-core.xowa -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-file-ns.000-db.001.xowa - etc.
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For example, English Wikipedia .xowa files should go to
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.sqlite3: This is the old package type. These will be replaced with new .xowa packages. These files should be placed in two folders:
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Files that are labeled "wiki" should go into the wiki folder.
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For example, English Wikipedia wiki .sqlite3 databases should go to
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org. It would have files like the following:-
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org.000.sqlite3 -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org.001.sqlite3 - etc.
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For example, English Wikipedia wiki .sqlite3 databases should go to
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Files that are labeled "images" should go into the file folder.
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For example, English Wikipedia file .sqlite3 databases should go to
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org. It would have files like the following:-
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\wiki.mnt.sqlite3 -
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\fsdb.main\fsdb.atr.00.sqlite3 -
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\fsdb.main\fsdb.bin.0000.sqlite3 - etc.
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For example, English Wikipedia file .sqlite3 databases should go to
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Files that are labeled "wiki" should go into the wiki folder.
File types
- .7z: This file should be unzipped to the root folder. All files should be automatically unzipped to the right location.
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For example, if you unzip
Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_00.7ztoC:\xowayou should have a file calledC:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\fsdb.main\fsdb.abc.sqlite3
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.sqlite: These files are
*.000.sqlite3files that should be moved to the/xowa/wiki/wiki_name/directory.
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For example, if you downloaded
en.wikipedia.org.000.sqlite3for enwiki, then the final path will beC:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org.000.sqlite3
Notes
- ^ Url for wiki
- ^ Date of the database dump that was used to generate the file. See the Wikimedia dump servers
- ^ Date the file was uploaded to archive.org
- ^ Size of file (in GB)
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^ Type of download:
- .xowa: New format. All files go to /xowa/wiki/wiki_name
- .sqlite3: Old format. Files go to /xowa/wiki/wiki_name and /xowa/file/wiki_name
- ^ URL for http download
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^ Note the following:
- The wiki files should be downloaded to the Wiki folder. See the footnote on XOWA folder types. [9]
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The wiki download has been separated into multiple parts. If you want a complete copy of English Wikipedia, you should download all parts. If you want to save a few GB, you can skip the parts that are not required:
- core: (required: 513 MB) needed for wiki to work.
- main articles: (required: 11.6 GB) has all main articles in the wiki
- other articles: (optional: 2.9 GB) has other articles in the wiki, such as Portal, Wikipedia, Help, etc
- search: (optional: 364 MB) needed for Special:Search
- category: (optional: 2.9 GB) needed for Category pages
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^ For simplicity's sake, these instructions use a root folder of
C:\xowafor all examples. Please adjust as necessary for Linux / Mac OS X. -
^ a c Note the following types of folders:
- Root folder
C:\xowaand it would containC:\xowa\xowa_windows_64.jar. It could also beC:\Program Files\xowaorD:\My folder\xowawhereD:is a flash card. For Linux users, the root folder could be/home/your_user_name/xowa/. For Mac OS X users, the root folder could be/Users/your_user_name/xowa/.- Wiki folder
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org. If you're using German Wikisource, then the wiki folder would beC:\xowa\wiki\de.wikisource.org- File folder
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org. If you're using German Wikisource, then the wiki folder would beC:\xowa\file\de.wikisource.org