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  15. <div id="siteSub">From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application
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  17. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa" class="image">
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  27. <td width='80%' valign='top'>
  28. <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Summary'> Summary </span>
  29. </h2>
  30. <p>XOWA is the free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection!
  31. </p>
  32. <div class="thumb tright">
  33. <div class="thumbinner" style="width:600px;">
  34. <a href="http://xowa.org/home/file/screenshot_wikipedia_xowa.png" class="image">
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  37. <div class="thumbcaption">
  38. XOWA showing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia</a>
  39. </div>
  40. </div>
  41. </div>
  42. <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Features'> Features </span></h2>
  43. <ul>
  44. <li> Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
  45. </li>
  46. <li> Display 4.7+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
  47. </li>
  48. <li> Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ million images using the offline image databases.
  49. </li>
  50. <li> Set up over 800+ other wikis including:
  51. <ul>
  52. <li> <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wiktionary</a>
  53. </li>
  54. <li> <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikisource</a>
  55. </li>
  56. <li> <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikiquote</a>
  57. </li>
  58. <li> <a href="http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikivoyage</a>
  59. </li>
  60. <li> Non-English wikis, such as <a href="http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ class="external text" rel="nofollow">French Wiktionary</a>, <a href="http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">German Wikisource</a>, <a href="http://nl.wikivoyage.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Dutch Wikivoyage</a>
  61. </li>
  62. <li> <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikidata</a>
  63. </li>
  64. <li> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia Commons</a>
  65. </li>
  66. <li> <a href="http://wikispecies.wikimedia.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikispecies</a>
  67. </li>
  68. <li> ... and many more!
  69. </li>
  70. </ul>
  71. </li>
  72. <li> Update your wiki whenever you want, using <a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia's database backups</a>.
  73. </li>
  74. <li> Navigate between offline wikis. Click on &quot;Look up this word in Wiktionary&quot; and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
  75. </li>
  76. <li> Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
  77. </li>
  78. <li> Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
  79. </li>
  80. <li> Run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, and Android
  81. </li>
  82. <li> View the HTML for any wiki page
  83. </li>
  84. <li> Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box
  85. </li>
  86. <li> Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages
  87. </li>
  88. <li> Find a word on a page.
  89. </li>
  90. <li> Access a history of viewed pages
  91. </li>
  92. <li> Bookmark your favorite pages.
  93. </li>
  94. </ul>
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  96. <td width='20%' valign='top' style='padding-left:5px;'>
  97. <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Recent_News'> Recent News </span></h2>
  98. <b>2016-04-16</b> XOWA app released on Google Play<br/>
  99. <ul>
  100. <li> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa" class="external text" rel="nofollow">XOWA Android app</a>
  101. </li>
  102. </ul>
  103. <b>2016-04-04</b> French Wikipedia 2016-03 update released<br/>
  104. <ul>
  105. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_frwiki_latest/Xowa_frwiki_2016-03-05_file_update.7z" class="external text" rel="nofollow">French Wikipedia update</a>
  106. </li>
  107. </ul>
  108. <b>2016-03-20</b> English Wikipedia 2016-03 update released<br/>
  109. <ul>
  110. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2016-03-05_file_v2b.7z" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia update</a>
  111. </li>
  112. </ul>
  113. <b>2016-02-21</b> English Wikipedia 2016-02 update released<br/>
  114. <ul>
  115. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia update</a>
  116. </li>
  117. </ul>
  118. <b>2016-02-06</b> English wikis released<br/>
  119. <ul>
  120. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia update</a>
  121. </li>
  122. </ul>
  123. <b>2016-01-17</b> Android app beta released<br/>
  124. <ul>
  125. <li> <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/36" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Android app instructions</a>
  126. </li>
  127. </ul>
  128. <b>2015-12-27</b> Russian wiki updates released<br/>
  129. <ul>
  130. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_ruwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Russian wikis</a>
  131. </li>
  132. </ul>
  133. <b>2015-12-20</b> Englis Wikipedia 2015-12 updates released<br/>
  134. <ul>
  135. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia</a>
  136. </li>
  137. </ul>
  138. <b>2015-12-13</b> Arabic wiki updates released<br/>
  139. <ul>
  140. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_arwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Arabic wikis</a>
  141. </li>
  142. </ul>
  143. <b>2015-12-07</b> Italian wiki updates released<br/>
  144. <ul>
  145. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_itwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Italian wikis</a>
  146. </li>
  147. </ul>
  148. <b>2015-11-29</b> Dutch and Latin wiki updates released<br/>
  149. <ul>
  150. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_nlwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Dutch wikis</a>
  151. </li>
  152. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_lawiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Latin wikis</a>
  153. </li>
  154. </ul>
  155. <b>2015-11-22</b> French, Lithuanian, Limburgish, Estonian, Latvian, Nynorsk, and Cebuano wiki updates released<br/>
  156. <ul>
  157. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_frwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">French wikis</a>
  158. </li>
  159. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_ltwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Lithuanian wikis</a>
  160. </li>
  161. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_liwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Limburgish wikis</a>
  162. </li>
  163. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_etwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Estonian wikis</a>
  164. </li>
  165. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_lvwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Latvian wikis</a>
  166. </li>
  167. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_nnwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Nynorsk wikis</a>
  168. </li>
  169. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_cebwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Cebuano wikis</a>
  170. </li>
  171. </ul>
  172. <b>2015-11-15</b> Slovak, Slovenian, Galician and Waray-Waray wiki updates released<br/>
  173. <ul>
  174. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_slwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Slovak wikis</a>
  175. </li>
  176. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_skwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Slovenian wikis</a>
  177. </li>
  178. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_glwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Galician wikis</a>
  179. </li>
  180. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_warwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Waray-Waray wikis</a>
  181. </li>
  182. </ul>
  183. <b>2015-11-08</b> Danish, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian and Estonian wiki updates released<br/>
  184. <ul>
  185. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dawiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Danish wikis</a>
  186. </li>
  187. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_shwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Serbo-Croatian wikis</a>
  188. </li>
  189. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_hrwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Croatian wikis</a>
  190. </li>
  191. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_eswiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Estonian wikis</a>
  192. </li>
  193. </ul>
  194. <b>2015-11-02</b> English Wikipedia, Hebrew, Norwegian and Vietnamese wiki updates released<br/>
  195. <ul>
  196. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia</a>
  197. </li>
  198. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_hewiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Hewbrew wikis</a>
  199. </li>
  200. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_nowiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Norwegian wikis</a>
  201. </li>
  202. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_viwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Vietnamese wikis</a>
  203. </li>
  204. </ul>
  205. <b>2015-10-18</b> Serbian, Bulgarian and Malay wiki updates released<br/>
  206. <ul>
  207. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_srwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Serbian wikis</a>
  208. </li>
  209. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_mswiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Malay wikis</a>
  210. </li>
  211. <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_bgwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Bulgarian wikis</a>
  212. </li>
  213. </ul>
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  221. <div id="mw-head" class="noprint">
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  223. <div id="p-namespaces" class="vectorTabs">
  224. <h3>Namespaces</h3>
  225. <ul>
  226. <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"><span><a id="ca-nstab-main-href" href="index.html">Page</a></span></li>
  227. </ul>
  228. </div>
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  230. </div>
  231. <div id='mw-panel' class='noprint'>
  232. <div id='p-logo'>
  233. <a style="background-image: url(https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/xowa_logo.png);" href="http://xowa.org/" title="Visit the main page"></a>
  234. </div>
  235. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-home'>
  236. <h3>XOWA</h3>
  237. <div class="body">
  238. <ul>
  239. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/" title='Visit the main page'>Main page</a></li>
  240. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/screenshots.html" title='See screenshots of XOWA'>Screenshots</a></li>
  241. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title='Download the XOWA application'>Download XOWA</a></li>
  242. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title='Download offline wikis and image databases'>Download wikis</a></li>
  243. </ul>
  244. </div>
  245. </div>
  246. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-started'>
  247. <h3>Getting started</h3>
  248. <div class="body">
  249. <ul>
  250. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA&apos;s system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
  251. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
  252. <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>
  253. <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>
  254. <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>
  255. </ul>
  256. </div>
  257. </div>
  258. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-android'>
  259. <h3>Android</h3>
  260. <div class="body">
  261. <ul>
  262. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Android/Setup.html" title='Setup XOWA on your Android device'>Setup</a></li>
  263. </ul>
  264. </div>
  265. </div>
  266. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-help'>
  267. <h3>Help</h3>
  268. <div class="body">
  269. <ul>
  270. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/About.html" title='Get more information about XOWA'>About</a></li>
  271. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents.html" title='View a list of help topics'>Contents</a></li>
  272. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Media.html" title='Read what others have written about XOWA'>Media</a></li>
  273. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Feedback.html" title='Questions? Comments? Leave feedback for XOWA'>Feedback</a></li>
  274. </ul>
  275. </div>
  276. </div>
  277. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-blog'>
  278. <h3>Blog</h3>
  279. <div class="body">
  280. <ul>
  281. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog.html" title='Follow XOWA''s development process'>Current</a></li>
  282. </ul>
  283. </div>
  284. </div>
  285. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-links'>
  286. <h3>Links</h3>
  287. <div class="body">
  288. <ul>
  289. <li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
  290. <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
  291. <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
  292. </ul>
  293. </div>
  294. </div>
  295. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-donate'>
  296. <h3>Donate</h3>
  297. <div class="body">
  298. <ul>
  299. <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/ -->
  300. <li><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector" title="Support Wikipedia!">Wikipedia</a></li>
  301. <!-- <li><a href="" title="Support XOWA! (but only after you've supported archive.org and Wikipedia)">XOWA</a></li> -->
  302. </ul>
  303. </div>
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