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  13. <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span>About</span></h1>
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  15. <div id="siteSub">From XOWA: a free, open-source, offline wiki application</div>
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  19. <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Information'>Information</span></h2>
  20. <table class='wikitable' style='border:1px'>
  21. <tr>
  22. <td>name:</td>
  23. <td>XOWA</td>
  24. </tr>
  25. <tr>
  26. <td>license:</td>
  27. <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">AGPLv3</a></td>
  28. </tr>
  29. <tr>
  30. <td>website:</td>
  31. <td><a href="http://xowa.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">http://xowa.org/</a></td>
  32. </tr>
  33. <tr>
  34. <td>developer:</td>
  35. <td>gnosygnu</td>
  36. </tr>
  37. <tr>
  38. <td>email:</td>
  39. <td>gnosygnu@gmail.com</td>
  40. </tr>
  41. <tr>
  42. <td>identity passphrases:</td>
  43. <td><tt>8d06d35872ca9e477c3295c3b2ccfb02214626660ae0f292ab93e1dfedcadac4<br>
  44. d17f529216e011db77e22365de09335a459d78584fb1c29066e79fe422b904f2</tt></td>
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  47. <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Contributors'>Contributors</span></h2>
  48. <table>
  49. <tr valign='top'>
  50. <td>
  51. <table class='wikitable' style='border:1px'>
  52. <tr>
  53. <th>name</th>
  54. <th>contribution</th>
  55. </tr>
  56. <tr>
  57. <td>Schnark</td>
  58. <td>
  59. <ul>
  60. <li>MathJax integration</li>
  61. <li>Sortable/Collapsible tables</li>
  62. <li>Reference tooltips</li>
  63. <li>Timeline</li>
  64. <li>Wikidata html formatter</li>
  65. <li>Search suggestions</li>
  66. <li>Redlink identification</li>
  67. <li>Edit toolbar</li>
  68. <li>German localization</li>
  69. <li>250+ defect detection</li>
  70. </ul>
  71. </td>
  72. </tr>
  73. </table>
  74. </td>
  75. <td>
  76. <table class='wikitable' style='border:1px'>
  77. <tr>
  78. <th>name</th>
  79. <th>contribution</th>
  80. </tr>
  81. <tr>
  82. <td>treck</td>
  83. <td>
  84. <ul>
  85. <li>Firefox Add-on</li>
  86. <li>Polish localization</li>
  87. </ul>
  88. </td>
  89. </tr>
  90. <tr>
  91. <td>hidp123</td>
  92. <td>
  93. <ul>
  94. <li>multiple defect detection</li>
  95. </ul>
  96. </td>
  97. </tr>
  98. <tr>
  99. <td>Miles</td>
  100. <td>
  101. <ul>
  102. <li>multiple defect detection</li>
  103. </ul>
  104. </td>
  105. </tr>
  106. <tr>
  107. <td>Anselm</td>
  108. <td>
  109. <ul>
  110. <li>import bz2 by stdout proposal</li>
  111. <li>multiple defect detection</li>
  112. </ul>
  113. </td>
  114. </tr>
  115. <tr>
  116. <td>Mattze96</td>
  117. <td>
  118. <ul>
  119. <li>HTTP Web Server</li>
  120. </ul>
  121. </td>
  122. </tr>
  123. <tr>
  124. <td>zjzengdongyang</td>
  125. <td>
  126. <ul>
  127. <li>Chinese localization</li>
  128. <li>multiple defect detection</li>
  129. </ul>
  130. </td>
  131. </tr>
  132. </table>
  133. </td>
  134. </tr>
  135. </table>
  136. <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Components_and_Tools'>Components and Tools</span></h2>
  137. <p>XOWA is free software. It was built using free software and was made possible by free culture.</p>
  138. <i>Support free software and free culture today!</i>
  139. <table class='wikitable' style='border:1px'>
  140. <tr>
  141. <th>Name</th>
  142. <th>Description</th>
  143. <th>License</th>
  144. </tr>
  145. <tr>
  146. <td style='background-color:light-grey;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;' colspan='2'>Primary application components</td>
  147. </tr>
  148. <tr>
  149. <td><a href="http://www.wikimedia.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia Foundation</a></td>
  150. <td>Wiki data dumps and images</td>
  151. <td><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use">CC-BY-SA 3.0</a></td>
  152. </tr>
  153. <tr>
  154. <td><a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XULRunner" class="external text" rel="nofollow">XUL Runner</a></td>
  155. <td>Mozilla Firefox web browser runtime environment</td>
  156. <td><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MPL</a></td>
  157. </tr>
  158. <tr>
  159. <td><a href="http://www.java.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Java</a></td>
  160. <td>Programming language</td>
  161. <td><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv2</a></td>
  162. </tr>
  163. <tr>
  164. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swt" class="external text" rel="nofollow">SWT</a></td>
  165. <td>Web browser interoperability</td>
  166. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">CPL</a></td>
  167. </tr>
  168. <tr>
  169. <td style='background-color:light-grey;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;' colspan='2'>Secondary application components</td>
  170. </tr>
  171. <tr>
  172. <td><a href="http://www.sqlite.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">sqlite</a></td>
  173. <td>SQL database library</td>
  174. <td><a href="http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Public Domain</a></td>
  175. </tr>
  176. <tr>
  177. <td><a href="http://bitbucket.org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Xerial SQLite JDBC</a></td>
  178. <td>Java library for Sqlite</td>
  179. <td><a href="http://bitbucket.org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Apache v2.0</a></td>
  180. </tr>
  181. <tr>
  182. <td><a href="http://www.lua.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Lua</a></td>
  183. <td>Embedded scripting library</td>
  184. <td><a href="http://www.lua.org/license.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MIT</a></td>
  185. </tr>
  186. <tr>
  187. <td><a href="http://luaj.org/luaj/README.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Luaj</a></td>
  188. <td>Embedded scripting library (Java)</td>
  189. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=196142" class="external text" rel="nofollow">BSD</a></td>
  190. </tr>
  191. <tr>
  192. <td><a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">tidy</a></td>
  193. <td>HTML markup cleaner</td>
  194. <td><a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MIT</a></td>
  195. </tr>
  196. <tr>
  197. <td><a href="http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">JTidy</a></td>
  198. <td>HTML markup cleaner (Java)</td>
  199. <td><a href="http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/license.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">BSD</a></td>
  200. </tr>
  201. <tr>
  202. <td><a href="http://www.mathjax.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MathJax</a></td>
  203. <td>Browser-based LaT<sub>E</sub>X functionality</td>
  204. <td><a href="http://www.mathjax.org/resources/faqs/#License" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Apache v2.0</a></td>
  205. </tr>
  206. <tr>
  207. <td><a href="http://www.jquery.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">JQuery</a></td>
  208. <td>Javascript library (used for table sorting/collapsing)</td>
  209. <td><a href="http://jquery.org/license/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MIT</a></td>
  210. </tr>
  211. <tr>
  212. <td><a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Apache Commons Compress</a></td>
  213. <td>BZ2 compression / decompression library</td>
  214. <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Apache v2.0</a></td>
  215. </tr>
  216. <tr>
  217. <td><a href="http://7-zip.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">7-Zip</a></td>
  218. <td>Compression / decompression program (Windows)</td>
  219. <td><a href="http://7-zip.org/faq.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">LGPL</a></td>
  220. </tr>
  221. <tr>
  222. <td><a href="http://www.lilypond.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Lilypond</a></td>
  223. <td>Music score generator</td>
  224. <td><a href="http://www.lilypond.org/gpl.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv3</a></td>
  225. </tr>
  226. <tr>
  227. <td><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">ImageMagick</a></td>
  228. <td>Image converter</td>
  229. <td><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Apache v2.0</a></td>
  230. </tr>
  231. <tr>
  232. <td><a href="http://www.inkscape.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Inkscape</a></td>
  233. <td>SVG converter</td>
  234. <td><a href="http://inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPL</a></td>
  235. </tr>
  236. <tr>
  237. <td><a href="http://www.miktex.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MiKT<sub>E</sub>X</a></td>
  238. <td>T<sub>E</sub>X converter (Windows)</td>
  239. <td><a href="http://miktex.org/copying" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MikTex Open Source</a></td>
  240. </tr>
  241. <tr>
  242. <td style='background-color:light-grey;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;' colspan='2'>Websites</td>
  243. </tr>
  244. <tr>
  245. <td><a href="http://archive.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">archive.org</a></td>
  246. <td>Image database host</td>
  247. </tr>
  248. <tr>
  249. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Sourceforge.net</a></td>
  250. <td>Project hosting website</td>
  251. </tr>
  252. <tr>
  253. <td><a href="http://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/xowa" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Gerrit</a></td>
  254. <td>Software code review</td>
  255. </tr>
  256. <tr>
  257. <td><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia dump servers</a></td>
  258. <td>Wiki backup host</td>
  259. </tr>
  260. <tr>
  261. <td style='background-color:light-grey;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;' colspan='2'>Development tools and utilities</td>
  262. </tr>
  263. <tr>
  264. <td><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu</a></td>
  265. <td>Operating system</td>
  266. <td><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPL derived</a></td>
  267. </tr>
  268. <tr>
  269. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Eclipse</a></td>
  270. <td>Java IDE</td>
  271. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">CPL</a></td>
  272. </tr>
  273. <tr>
  274. <td><a href="http://www.jedit.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">jEdit</a></td>
  275. <td>Text editor</td>
  276. <td><a href="http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/general.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv2</a></td>
  277. </tr>
  278. <tr>
  279. <td><a href="http://notepad-plus-plus.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Notepad++</a></td>
  280. <td>Text editor (Windows)</td>
  281. <td><a href="http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.1.1-gpl-enhancement.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPL</a></td>
  282. </tr>
  283. <tr>
  284. <td><a href="http://getfirebug.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Firebug</a></td>
  285. <td>HTML inspection</td>
  286. <td><a href="http://getfirebug.com/faq/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">BSD</a></td>
  287. </tr>
  288. <tr>
  289. <td><a href="http://www.libreoffice.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">LibreOffice</a></td>
  290. <td>Spreadsheet application</td>
  291. <td><a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">LGPLv3, MPL</a></td>
  292. </tr>
  293. <tr>
  294. <td><a href="http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">SQuirreL SQL</a></td>
  295. <td>SQL editor</td>
  296. <td><a href="http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">LGPL</a></td>
  297. </tr>
  298. <tr>
  299. <td><a href="http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">JSmooth</a></td>
  300. <td>Java exe wrapper (Windows)</td>
  301. <td><a href="http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/license.php" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv2</a></td>
  302. </tr>
  303. <tr>
  304. <td><a href="http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Launch4J</a></td>
  305. <td>Java exe wrapper (Windows 64-bit)</td>
  306. <td><a href="http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">BSD, MIT</a></td>
  307. </tr>
  308. <tr>
  309. <td><a href="http://www.qbittorrent.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">qBittorrent</a></td>
  310. <td>Torrent generator</td>
  311. <td><a href="http://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/COPYING" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv2</a></td>
  312. </tr>
  313. <tr>
  314. <td><a href="http://www.gimp.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GIMP</a></td>
  315. <td>Image manipulation</td>
  316. <td><a href="http://www.gimp.org/about/COPYING" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv3</a></td>
  317. </tr>
  318. <tr>
  319. <td><a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">VLC</a></td>
  320. <td>Media player</td>
  321. <td><a href="http://www.videolan.org/legal.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv2</a></td>
  322. </tr>
  323. <tr>
  324. <td><a href="http://djvu.sourceforge.net" class="external text" rel="nofollow">DjVuLibre</a></td>
  325. <td>DjVu viewer</td>
  326. <td><a href="http://djvu.sourceforge.net/licensing.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv2</a></td>
  327. </tr>
  328. <tr>
  329. <td><a href="http://projects.gnome.org/evince" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Evince</a></td>
  330. <td>PDF viewer</td>
  331. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/evince.mirror/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GPLv2</a></td>
  332. </tr>
  333. <tr>
  334. <td style='background-color:light-grey;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;' colspan='2'>Resources</td>
  335. </tr>
  336. <tr>
  337. <td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/">MediaWiki</a></td>
  338. <td>Wiki server software</td>
  339. <td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:What_is_MediaWiki?">GPLv2</a></td>
  340. </tr>
  341. <tr>
  342. <td><a href="http://www.php.net" class="external text" rel="nofollow">PHP</a></td>
  343. <td>Server-side scripting language</td>
  344. <td><a href="http://php.net/license/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">PHP v3.01</a></td>
  345. </tr>
  346. <tr>
  347. <td><a href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Tango icon library</a></td>
  348. <td>Icons</td>
  349. <td><a href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Public Domain</a></td>
  350. </tr>
  351. <tr>
  352. <td><a href="http://www.oxygen-icons.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Oxygen</a></td>
  353. <td>Icons</td>
  354. <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Project">LGPL</a></td>
  355. </tr>
  356. <tr>
  357. <td style='background-color:light-grey;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;' colspan='2'>Special mention</td>
  358. </tr>
  359. <tr>
  360. <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">GNU</a></td>
  361. <td>Free software philosophy</td>
  362. </tr>
  363. </table>
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  365. </div>
  366. </div>
  367. </div>
  368. <div id="mw-head" class="noprint">
  369. <div id="left-navigation">
  370. <div id="p-namespaces" class="vectorTabs">
  371. <h3>Namespaces</h3>
  372. <ul>
  373. <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"><span><a id="ca-nstab-main-href" href="index.html">Page</a></span></li>
  374. </ul>
  375. </div>
  376. </div>
  377. </div>
  378. <div id='mw-panel' class='noprint'>
  379. <div id='p-logo'>
  380. </div>
  381. <a style="background-image: url(https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/xowa_logo.png);" href="http://xowa.org/" title="Visit the main page"></a>
  382. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-home'>
  383. <h3>XOWA</h3>
  384. <div class="body">
  385. <ul>
  386. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/" title='Visit the main page'>Main page</a></li>
  387. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/screenshots.html" title='See screenshots of XOWA'>Screenshots</a></li>
  388. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title='Download the XOWA application'>Download XOWA</a></li>
  389. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title='Download offline wikis and image databases'>Download wikis</a></li>
  390. </ul>
  391. </div>
  392. </div>
  393. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-started'>
  394. <h3>Getting started</h3>
  395. <div class="body">
  396. <ul>
  397. <li><a href="{{page_root}}App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA&apos;s system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
  398. <li><a href="{{page_root}}App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
  399. <li><a href="{{page_root}}App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia'>Simple Wikipedia</a></li>
  400. <li><a href="{{page_root}}App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up English Wikipedia'>English Wikipedia</a></li>
  401. <li><a href="{{page_root}}App/Import/Other_wikis.html" title='Learn how to set up other Wikipedias'>Other Wikipedias</a></li>
  402. </ul>
  403. </div>
  404. </div>
  405. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-android'>
  406. <h3>Android</h3>
  407. <div class="body">
  408. <ul>
  409. <li><a href="{{page_root}}Android/Setup.html" title='Install XOWA on your Android device'>Setup on Android</a></li>
  410. </ul>
  411. </div>
  412. </div>
  413. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-help'>
  414. <h3>Help</h3>
  415. <div class="body">
  416. <ul>
  417. <li><a href="{{page_root}}Help/About.html" title='Get more information about XOWA'>About</a></li>
  418. <li><a href="{{page_root}}Help/Contents.html" title='View a list of help topics'>Contents</a></li>
  419. <li><a href="{{page_root}}Help/Media.html" title='Read what others have written about XOWA'>Media</a></li>
  420. <li><a href="{{page_root}}Help/Feedback.html" title='Questions? Comments? Leave feedback for XOWA'>Feedback</a></li>
  421. </ul>
  422. </div>
  423. </div>
  424. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-blog'>
  425. <h3>Blog</h3>
  426. <div class="body">
  427. <ul>
  428. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Blog.html" title='Follow XOWA''s development process'>Current</a></li>
  429. </ul>
  430. </div>
  431. </div>
  432. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-links'>
  433. <h3>Links</h3>
  434. <div class="body">
  435. <ul>
  436. <li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
  437. <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
  438. <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
  439. </ul>
  440. </div>
  441. </div>
  442. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-donate'>
  443. <h3>Donate</h3>
  444. <div class="body">
  445. <ul>
  446. <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/ -->
  447. <li><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector" title="Support Wikipedia!">Wikipedia</a></li>
  448. <!-- <li><a href="" title="Support XOWA! (but only after you've supported archive.org and Wikipedia)">XOWA</a></li> -->
  449. </ul>
  450. </div>
  451. </div></div>
  452. </body>
  453. </html>