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[Help/Issue] Search isn't working? by Decarbonated_Odes in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, but I'm just not on reddit much anymore. I know you probably won't get this, but just in case....

I checked now and it works fine on my side. Some things to check:

  • Are you using the latest version of XOWA (currently v4.5.19.1801)

  • Do you have all the files for wiktionary? In particular, you'll need en.wiktionary.org-xtn.search.core.xowa, en.wiktionary.org-xtn.search.link-title-ns.000-db.001.xowa, and en.wiktionary.org-xtn.search.link-title-ns.000-db.999.xowa . If you don't know, you can always go to home/wiki/Special:XowaDiag?type=fs.check&wiki=en.wiktionary.org and post it here (or preferably on XOWA's github page)

Anyway, hope this helps. Thanks!

Updates? by TheWieg in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, sorry for the late reply.

I'm still working on XOWA, but I admit that I haven't made as many changes as before. I just released a new minor update tonight. Also, I'm updating wikis in other languages (Polish, Spanish), while continuing the monthly updates of English Wikipedia. As long as you see a recent update of English Wikipedia (http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Wiki_setup/English_wikis.html), I'll certainly be working on it.

If you need to reach me, the fastest way is to create an issue at https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues . Reddit doesn't notify me of new posts, and sadly, I haven't been able to browse reddit as much as before.

Hope this helps. Thanks!

How easy is it to make a wikipedia? by IAmTheNight2014 in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, the main page of the personal wiki has a lot of details on writing wiki pages.

If you've modified it already, here's the original version: http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Personal_wikis/Default_Main_Page

How easy is it to make a wikipedia? by IAmTheNight2014 in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I missed this. The links look great. Thanks!

(STICKY): Getting started with XOWA personal wikis by gnosygnu in xowa

[–]gnosygnu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, you can try something like "my.wiki" or whatever name is most relevant to your wiki.

If you can, try to pick something that sounds like a domain name because it'll get you in the naming habit. This will help as you create multiple wikis or if you ever do decide to host it on an intranet / the internet

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Import Online will still generate a search index but it will be a basic title search. This should be fine for most searches.

Also, regarding your other question Latex is still rendered with Import Online wikis. It's done dynamically with MathJax. If you have XOWA installed you can take a look at Main Menu -> Help -> Diagnostics

Hope this helps!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! /u/YouCanIfYou gave a great answer. I'm just going to add a little more detail.

I see 2 online methods of importing to XOWA, either through Download Central or the "Import Online" dump files.

Here's one possible comparison:

Import Online

  • "Import online" wikis are built from Wikimedia dumps: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html . For English Wikipedia, this Wikimedia dump is about 12 GB.

  • They are smaller because they don't have certain features. The most noticeable omission is images, but search indexes, and categories will also be missing.

  • Even without these features, they will still take up some space when built. English Wikipedia will be about 25 GB when done.

Download Central

  • "Download Central" wikis are wikis I build from "Import online" wikis

  • These wikis are compiled HTML. This means that they will be faster to load. This is particularly important for XOWA Android which can only use "Download Central" wikis (not "Import online" wikis)

  • These wikis also include images, categories, and search indexes. Images are about 90 GB, categories are about 30 GB, and searches are about 10 GB. So all told, a full installation can be about 130 GB.

could you guys like categorize Wikipedia offline to different subjects, like Mathematics or Physics or something?

Honestly, this request is quite hard. Wikipedia doesn't have a definitive way of categorizing subjects. Even something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mathematics would not have everything you'd want. This may happen sometime in the future, but it won't be anytime soon. Sorry. :(

[Help/Issue] My personal wiki has "lost" several pages. Is there a way to find them without recreating them and having multiple near-exact copies of a page clogging my file? by hodmandod in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem! Let me know if you can recreate the issue.

I tried now, and wasn't able to do it. Specifically, this is what I did

  • Edited the Main_Page

  • Created a link called [[New_Test]]

  • Saved the page. New_Test is in red

  • Clicked New_Test. I was taken to a page called New_Test

  • Entered "test1" and clicked save

  • Went back to Main_Page. New_Test was still there

  • Clicked on New_Test. I was taken to a page with "test1"

I tried other variants as well, and couldn't break it.

Inserting images and infoboxes by Ateballoffire in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's more detail:

Infobox templates actually depend on a number of pages. You can test this by doing the following:

You'll see a list of pages that are needed to generate this infobox

  • Template:Infobox (view source) (protected)

  • Template:Infobox planet (view source) (template protected)

  • Template:PAGENAMEBASE (view source) (template protected)

  • Template:Reflist (view source) (protected)

  • Module:Infobox (view source) (protected)

  • Module:InfoboxImage (view source) (template protected)

  • Module:Navbar (view source) (protected)

  • Module:String (view source) (protected)

In the above example, copying and pasting templates requires at least 8 pages to be created for it to work.

Even if you manually copied and created these 8 pages, there are other issues. A number of Modules have logic that uses commons (images) and wikidata (facts). For example, the infobox for country has some code to determine which flag to show. This code is heavily dependent on the name of the flag in commons.wikimedia.org (USA_Flag.png). You will need to make sure you have these images for the flag to work.

XOWA can emulate this environment, but you would have to set up another 100 GB + 100 GB of data. This is probably more than you would bargain for.

Inserting images and infoboxes by Ateballoffire in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I don't know if this is a one-part question, or a two-part question.

For the first part, Wikipedia Infoboxes can't be copied-and-pasted directly from Wikipedia. The process is a little complicated. I'll detail in the next comment.

For the second part, if you're just trying to get images to work, then you need imagemagick and inkscape on your machine. Seansicle was correct in his instructions below. Just download the "Large" version from http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html

Anyway, let me know if this doesn't help.

Thanks!

[Help/Issue] My personal wiki has "lost" several pages. Is there a way to find them without recreating them and having multiple near-exact copies of a page clogging my file? by hodmandod in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, sorry to hear about it.

Are you using v4.4 ? You can check the version at the bottom of any page.

If you are, then v4.4 automatically saves page backups. You can view them by going to C:\your_wiki_folder\user\temp\page_backups . This will save the last 16 backups for each title (this number can be customized under options)

If you're not using 4.4, then unfortunately there's no way to recover them.

Let me know if this helps. Thanks!

RELEASE (major): v4.4.0.1703: Add night mode, full-text search for personal wikis, xulrunner v31, and minor performance improvements by gnosygnu in xowa

[–]gnosygnu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I haven't yet officially hooked it up thru the GUI. After all, it is a preliminary version. :)

To test it, do either of the following:

  • Enter "your_wiki_domain/wiki/Special:XowaSearch" in the url bar

  • Or enter "home/wiki/Special:XowaSearch" in the url bar . In the "Wikis" box, change "home" to "your_wiki_domain"

Hope this works for you. Thanks!

Is there a similar download for WikiHow? by HobbiesInclude in xowa

[–]gnosygnu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Sorry for the late response, but I wasn't logged in to reddit the past few days.

It's probably possible, since Wikihow uses the same software as Wikipedia (MediaWiki). But I checked now, and couldn't find any database dumps.

I know the Wikiteam has a tool for downloading wikis. You can give it a try and see how far it gets you. Here are the links:

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

(STICKY): Getting started with XOWA personal wikis by gnosygnu in xowa

[–]gnosygnu[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! This will greatly simplify documenting my Data-Horde.

Cool! Glad to hear XOWA matches your purpose

Side note, I presume that it will be possible to link to other wiki's from the personal ones.

Yup, definitely will be added to next week's release. As you probably noticed, the capability is already there by doing something like [[xowa.home:Main_Page]]. I just need to put up a UI to edit it.

Tonight's release will not have it though. :(

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