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  13. <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span>Help/Overview</span></h1>
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  15. <div id="siteSub">From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application</div>
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  18. <div id="toc" class="toc">
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  21. Contents
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  24. <ul>
  25. <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1">
  26. <a href="#Summary"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Summary</span></a>
  27. </li>
  28. <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2">
  29. <a href="#Features"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Features</span></a>
  30. </li>
  31. <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3">
  32. <a href="#Supported_wikis"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Supported wikis</span></a>
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  34. <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4">
  35. <a href="#Philosophy"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Philosophy</span></a>
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  40. <span class="mw-headline" id="Summary">Summary</span>
  41. </h2>
  42. <p>
  43. XOWA is an application for reading and editing wikis offline. It aims to provide full offline access to all content in every Wikimedia Foundation wiki.
  44. </p>
  45. <h2>
  46. <span class="mw-headline" id="Features">Features</span>
  47. </h2>
  48. <p>
  49. XOWA has several features:
  50. </p>
  51. <ul>
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  53. Displays all articles from a Wikimedia data dump.
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  56. Works with English Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, as well as the non-English language counterparts (for example, French Wikipedia).
  57. </li>
  58. <li>
  59. Renders articles with full HTML formatting.
  60. </li>
  61. <li>
  62. Downloads images and other files on demand.
  63. </li>
  64. <li>
  65. Edits articles.
  66. </li>
  67. <li>
  68. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry PI, and Android.
  69. </li>
  70. <li>
  71. Installs to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
  72. </li>
  73. <li>
  74. Is customizable and extendable at many levels: from keyboard shortcuts to HTML layouts to internal options.
  75. </li>
  76. <li>
  77. Is open-source under the AGPLv3 license.
  78. </li>
  79. </ul>
  80. <h2>
  81. <span class="mw-headline" id="Supported_wikis">Supported wikis</span>
  82. </h2>
  83. <p>
  84. XOWA should work with any dump that has been generated by MediaWiki software. It has been personally tested for over 200 wikis, including:
  85. </p>
  86. <ul>
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  88. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">English Wikipedia</a>
  89. </li>
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  91. The English sister projects: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wiktionary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikisource</a>, <a href="https://en.wikivoyage.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikivoyage</a>, <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikiquote</a>, <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikibooks</a>, <a href="https://en.wikiversity.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikiversity</a> and <a href="https://en.wikinews.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikinews</a>
  92. </li>
  93. <li>
  94. Non-English Wikipedias including <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">German</a>, <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Spanish</a>, <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">French</a>, <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Italian</a>, <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Dutch</a>, <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Polish</a>, <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Russian</a>, <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Swedish</a>, <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Japanese</a>, <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Chinese</a>, <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Arabic</a>, <a href="https://la.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Latin</a>, and many more.
  95. </li>
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  97. Unique wikis including <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikimedia Commons</a>, <a href="https://www.wikidata.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikidata</a>, <a href="https://species.wikimedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Wikispecies</a>, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">MediaWiki</a>, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Meta-wiki</a>, <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Incubator</a>, <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org" rel="nofollow" class="external text">WikimediaFoundation</a>
  98. </li>
  99. </ul>
  100. <p>
  101. For a full list, see <a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Dashboard/Import/Online.html" id="xolnki_2" title="Dashboard/Import/Online" class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Import/Online</a> and <a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" id="xolnki_3" title="Dashboard/Image databases" class="xowa-visited">Dashboard/Image_databases</a>
  102. </p>
  103. <h2>
  104. <span class="mw-headline" id="Philosophy">Philosophy</span>
  105. </h2>
  106. <p>
  107. XOWA is free software. The code is open source under the AGPLv3 license, and available to anyone for review or modification. See <a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/License/Code.html" id="xolnki_4" title="Help/License/Code" class="xowa-visited">Help/License/Code</a> for more information as well as <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa</a>.
  108. </p>
  109. <p>
  110. XOWA advocates free content. All documentation and project artifacts are provided under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. See <a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/License/Docs.html" id="xolnki_5" title="Help/License/Docs" class="xowa-visited">Help/License/Docs</a> for more information.
  111. </p>
  112. <p>
  113. XOWA values user privacy. It will never collect and upload personal information. It is designed to be run in a standalone environment, without any connection to the internet. See <a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Privacy/Desktop.html" id="xolnki_6" title="Help/Privacy/Desktop" class="xowa-visited">Help/Privacy/Desktop</a> for more information.
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  120. <div id="p-namespaces" class="vectorTabs">
  121. <h3>Namespaces</h3>
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  123. <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"><span><a id="ca-nstab-main-href" href="index.html">Page</a></span></li>
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  129. <div id='p-logo'>
  130. <a style="background-image: url(https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/xowa_logo.png);" href="http://xowa.org/" title="Visit the main page"></a>
  131. </div>
  132. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-home'>
  133. <h3>XOWA</h3>
  134. <div class="body">
  135. <ul>
  136. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/index.html" title='Visit the main page'>Main page</a></li>
  137. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/screenshots.html" title='See screenshots of XOWA'>Screenshots</a></li>
  138. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title='Download the XOWA application'>Download XOWA</a></li>
  139. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title='Download offline wikis and image databases'>Download wikis</a></li>
  140. </ul>
  141. </div>
  142. </div>
  143. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-stargin'>
  144. <h3>Getting started</h3>
  145. <div class="body">
  146. <ul>
  147. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA&apos;s system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
  148. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
  149. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia'>Simple Wikipedia</a></li>
  150. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up English Wikipedia'>English Wikipedia</a></li>
  151. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Import/Other_wikis.html" title='Learn how to set up other Wikipedias'>Other Wikipedias</a></li>
  152. </ul>
  153. </div>
  154. </div>
  155. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-help'>
  156. <h3>Help</h3>
  157. <div class="body">
  158. <ul>
  159. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/About.html" title='Get more information about XOWA'>About</a></li>
  160. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Contents.html" title='View a list of help topics'>Contents</a></li>
  161. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Media.html" title='Read what others have written about XOWA'>Media</a></li>
  162. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Feedback.html" title='Questions? Comments? Leave feedback for XOWA'>Feedback</a></li>
  163. </ul>
  164. </div>
  165. </div>
  166. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-blog'>
  167. <h3>Blog</h3>
  168. <div class="body">
  169. <ul>
  170. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Blog.html" title='Follow XOWA''s development process'>Current</a></li>
  171. </ul>
  172. </div>
  173. </div>
  174. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-links'>
  175. <h3>Links</h3>
  176. <div class="body">
  177. <ul>
  178. <li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
  179. <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
  180. <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
  181. </ul>
  182. </div>
  183. </div>
  184. <div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-donate'>
  185. <h3>Donate</h3>
  186. <div class="body">
  187. <ul>
  188. <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/ -->
  189. <li><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector" title="Support Wikipedia!">Wikipedia</a></li>
  190. <!-- <li><a href="" title="Support XOWA! (but only after you've supported archive.org and Wikipedia)">XOWA</a></li> -->
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