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    <div id="siteSub">From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application
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  <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Summary'> Summary </span>
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  <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!
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        XOWA showing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia</a>
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  <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Features'> Features </span></h2>

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    <li> Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
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    <li> Display 4.7+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
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    <li> Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ million images using the offline image databases.
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    <li> Set up over 800+ other wikis including:
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        <li> <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wiktionary</a>
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        <li> <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikisource</a>
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        <li> <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikiquote</a>
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        <li> <a href="http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikivoyage</a>
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        <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>
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        <li> <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikidata</a>
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        <li> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia Commons</a>
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        <li> <a href="http://wikispecies.wikimedia.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Wikispecies</a>
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        <li> ... and many more!
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    <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>.
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    <li> Navigate between offline wikis. Click on &quot;Look up this word in Wiktionary&quot; and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
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    <li> Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
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    <li> Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
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    <li> Run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, and Android
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    <li> View the HTML for any wiki page
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    <li> Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box
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    <li> Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages
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    <li> Find a word on a page.
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    <li> Access a history of viewed pages
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    <li> Bookmark your favorite pages.
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  <h2><span class='mw-headline' id='Recent_News'> Recent News </span></h2>

  <b>2016-04-16</b> XOWA app released on Google Play<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa" class="external text" rel="nofollow">XOWA Android app</a>
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  <b>2016-04-04</b> French Wikipedia 2016-03 update released<br/>
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    <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>
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  <b>2016-03-20</b> English Wikipedia 2016-03 update released<br/>
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    <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>
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  <b>2016-02-21</b> English Wikipedia 2016-02 update released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia update</a>
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  <b>2016-02-06</b> English wikis released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia update</a>
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  <b>2016-01-17</b> Android app beta released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/36" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Android app instructions</a>
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  <b>2015-12-27</b> Russian wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_ruwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Russian wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-12-20</b> Englis Wikipedia 2015-12 updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia</a>
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  <b>2015-12-13</b> Arabic wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_arwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Arabic wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-12-07</b> Italian wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_itwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Italian wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-11-29</b> Dutch and Latin wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_nlwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Dutch wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_lawiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Latin wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-11-22</b> French, Lithuanian, Limburgish, Estonian, Latvian, Nynorsk, and Cebuano wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_ltwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Lithuanian wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_lvwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Latvian wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-11-15</b> Slovak, Slovenian, Galician and Waray-Waray wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_warwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Waray-Waray wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-11-08</b> Danish, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian and Estonian wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dawiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Danish wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_shwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Serbo-Croatian wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_hrwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Croatian wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_eswiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Estonian wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-11-02</b> English Wikipedia, Hebrew, Norwegian and Vietnamese wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">English Wikipedia</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_hewiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Hewbrew wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_nowiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Norwegian wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_viwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Vietnamese wikis</a>
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  <b>2015-10-18</b> Serbian, Bulgarian and Malay wiki updates released<br/>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_srwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Serbian wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_mswiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Malay wikis</a>
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    <li> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Xowa_bgwiki_latest" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Bulgarian wikis</a>
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    <h3>Getting started</h3>
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        <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>
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        <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
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