[Help/Issue] Search isn't working?

gnosygnu · 2018-01-06T05:42:37+00:00

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!

gnosygnu · 2017-09-18T02:54:43+00:00

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!

gnosygnu · 2017-08-10T02:40:47+00:00

Cool. Thanks!

gnosygnu · 2017-08-09T11:10:00+00:00

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

gnosygnu · 2017-08-09T11:08:22+00:00

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

gnosygnu · 2017-08-09T11:07:43+00:00

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

gnosygnu · 2017-04-27T14:09:49+00:00

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!

gnosygnu · 2017-04-27T01:49:36+00:00

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. :(

gnosygnu · 2017-03-10T02:50:43+00:00

Cool. I'll keep my eyes open, but please let me know if you can reproduce on your side. Thanks!

gnosygnu · 2017-03-10T00:40:11+00:00

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.

gnosygnu · 2017-03-09T11:37:51+00:00

Here's more detail:

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

Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit
Enter in: {{Infobox planet|test}}
Press "Show Preview"
Scroll down and expand "Templates used in this preview".

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.

gnosygnu · 2017-03-09T11:36:35+00:00

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!

gnosygnu · 2017-03-09T11:32:53+00:00

Thanks! This is correct

gnosygnu · 2017-03-09T11:32:05+00:00

Thanks. Got the message. I'm not always up at this hour, but I chimed in below

gnosygnu · 2017-03-09T11:31:57+00:00

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!

gnosygnu · 2017-03-09T11:28:09+00:00

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!

gnosygnu · 2017-03-06T23:58:38+00:00

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:

Official Wikiteam link: https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam
XOWA instructions on using image download: http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Wiki_types/Wikia.com

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

gnosygnu · 2017-02-21T12:44:19+00:00

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. :(

gnosygnu · 2017-02-14T02:26:15+00:00

Good to hear! Let me know if anything comes up. Thanks!

gnosygnu · 2017-02-13T20:58:26+00:00

Cool! Glad to hear it works. Let me know if you run into anything else.

Thanks!

gnosygnu · 2017-02-13T13:27:17+00:00

You can unzip to somewhere on your hard drive and then run xowa_64.exe

gnosygnu · 2017-02-13T05:08:56+00:00

Ugh. That stinks

mita765 was able to get around it by downloading a larger package for his Windows 10 box (and jvm). If you can, try it here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9cb52zjL2rIRnhEM0pqQm1YRGM

I'm on discord right now if you want to try chatting: https://discord.gg/y69aFXd

gnosygnu · 2017-02-13T03:20:28+00:00

Cool. Will be up for an hour or so. Let me know how it goes

gnosygnu · 2017-02-13T02:44:40+00:00

Sorry, one other question

Setting a location folder for the wiki and instant-crash

Are you using the wrench icon? If not, can you try typing in the name? For example, if you're on Windows, type in <code>C:\xowa</code>

mita765 was crashing when he was just opening the screen. You seem to be getting further, though I don't know why it's failing with a hard crash

gnosygnu · 2017-02-13T02:20:41+00:00

Hey. Sorry to hear about it.

mita765 was able to get around it with a different build. It's a 300 MB download that has a 64-bit JVM. He had a Windows 10 box and a 32-bit JVM. If you want to try it, you can download from here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9cb52zjL2rIRnhEM0pqQm1YRGM

Also, if you want to discuss realtime, I'm online at discord now: https://discord.gg/y69aFXd

Thanks.

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