Set up Simple Wikipedia

Overview

Simple Wikipedia is a smaller wiki with 180,000+ pages and 90,000+ images. The text version can be setup in less than 5 minutes, using only 200 MB of disk space. The images version is a little larger: it needs 30 minutes of download time and 2 GB of space.

Part 1: Import the wiki

• Launch XOWA
• Find the link for "Set up Simple Wikipedia" near the middle of the Main Page (home/wiki/Main_Page).
• Click on it. The import process will start and should complete within 5 minutes.
• Visit different pages in Simple Wikipedia. Note that XOWA is showing all the articles, but without any images.

Part 2: Download the images

• Download the zip from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_simplewiki_latest
• Unzip the files in your xowa root directory. When you are done, you will have a file called D:\xowa\simple.wikipedia.org\simple.wikipedia.org-file.xowa as well as many others.^[1][2]
• Enter simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture into the address bar. All images should load.

Notes

1. ^ This bundle also has Simple Wiktionary, Simple Wikiquote and Simple Wikibooks
2. ^ This bundle also has Simple Wikipedia from 2015-04-06. It will overwrite the copy you imported. This ensures that all the images should match up with the pages: i.e.: a later wiki (for example, 2017-01-02) may reference new images that were not present at the time of 2015-04-06. If you want a later version of Simple Wikipedia, simply reimport it again. Note the following about updating your wiki:
   • Images will still show if the page hasn't changed the image. For example, if you are viewing a page from 2017-01-02 but no new images have been added or modified, then the page will look the same.
   • Images will not show, if the page has added new images or changed existing ones. For example, if the 2015-04-06 page had an Image called "Wiki_2015.png" but the 2017-01-02 version changed this to "Wiki_2017.png" then the "Wiki_2015.png" would not appear (since it wasn't known at the time of 2015-04-06)