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  <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span>App/Personal wikis</span></h1>
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    <div id="siteSub">From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application</div>
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          <a href="#Overview"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Overview</span></a>
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          <a href="#.xowa_file"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">.xowa file</span></a>
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          <a href="#Privacy"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Privacy</span></a>
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          <a href="#Work-in-progress"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Work-in-progress</span></a>
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          <a href="#Links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Links</span></a>
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    <h2>
      <span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">Overview</span>
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      Personal wikis are user-created standalone wikis. They are not imported from any existing online wikis, but created and edited entirely within XOWA. For anyone who has ever edited a Wikipedia page, creating a personal wiki should be a familiar and easy process.
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      <span class="mw-headline" id=".xowa_file"><code>.xowa</code> file</span>
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      XOWA stores all the data for a personal wiki in a single <code>.xowa</code> file. This <code>.xowa</code> file is a sqlite3 file, but has the extension renamed to <code>.xowa</code>. You can use any sqlite program to browse a <code>.xowa</code> file. You can either use the official sqlite command-line shell (<a href="https://sqlite.org/download.html" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://sqlite.org/download.html</a> ), or a gui-capable program (<a href="http://sqlitebrowser.org" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://sqlitebrowser.org</a>)
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      All your wiki data is stored in the <code>.xowa</code> file. You can email the file, upload it to a file service, or just copy it from one machine to the next.
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      <span class="mw-headline" id="Privacy">Privacy</span>
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      XOWA is as an offline Wikipedia app. It was meant for usage in a disconnected enviornment. It does not collect data to send elsewhere. For full details on privacy, see <a href="/wiki/Help/Privacy/Desktop" id="xolnki_2" title="Help/Privacy/Desktop">Help/Privacy/Desktop</a>
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      <span class="mw-headline" id="Work-in-progress">Work-in-progress</span>
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      Personal wikis are still a work-in-progress. Although I've been using personal wikis for the XOWA home wiki for over three years, it has not been used by anyone else until 2017-02.
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      If you want to provide feedback on XOWA, please see <a href="/wiki/Help/Feedback" id="xolnki_3" title="Help/Feedback">Help/Feedback</a>. You can use it for either of the following:
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        <b>Bugs</b>: The more detail you give, the better. Any of the following is greatly helpful: 
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            Reproduction steps: This can include either a series of specific steps or a sample of wikitext.
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            Logs: From the Main Menu, <code>Help</code> -&gt; <code>System data</code> -&gt; <code>Session Log</code>
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            Screenshots: You can take a screenshot and either upload it to github, Wikipedia, or any other image sharing app
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        <b>New features</b>: There's still a lot that can be done, and I'd like to get as much done as possible. However, please note that the entire XOWA developer team is just one person, so you may need to be patient.
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        <a href="/wiki/App/Personal_wikis/New_wiki" id="xolnki_4" title="App/Personal wikis/New wiki">App/Personal_wikis/New_wiki</a>
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        <a href="/wiki/App/Personal_wikis/Search" id="xolnki_5" title="App/Personal wikis/Search">App/Personal_wikis/Search</a>
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    <h3>XOWA</h3>
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        <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title='Download offline wikis and image databases'>Download wikis</a></li>
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        <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA&apos;s system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
        <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>
        <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>
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        <li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
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        <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/ -->
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        <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Donate.html" title="Support XOWA!">XOWA</a></li>
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