Hi! Thanks for the feedback! I'm particularly glad that you find it's
looking better than before. I paid a bit more attention to the
right-to-left languages in the last few iterations.
I excerpt your points below and reply within. Let me know if I missed
anything.
1. On the Hebrew Wikipedia (which is the collection I
chose to download),
you seem to have packaged the Wikipedia: namespace as well. Was this
deliberate?
Not sure what you mean. XOWA generates the entire wiki from the Wikimedia
XML database dumps. The XML database dump has all namespaces, so the
Wikipedia namespace is there -- along with Category, File, Help, Template,
etc.. These namespaces will automatically be available in XOWA after the
wiki is imported.
Besides, it wouldn't be a full offline copy of Wikipedia if it were missing
several namespaces, right? :)
2. In the page [[פורטל:יהדות]], the following raw
wikitext was rendered,
instead of the contents of the categoryTree:
להלן קטגוריות המשנה שתחת קטגוריית יהדות בוויקיפדיה:
<categoryTree>יהדות</categoryTree>
Yup, unfortunately this is an open issue. The CategoryTree extension is not
implemented by XOWA, as it involve a good deal of code (as well as AJAX
support). I plan to have it in place after I'm done with the XOWA Android
version. It may be a few months though.
3. the featured article category --
[[קטגוריה:ערכים_מומלצים]] -- seems to
find only 2 articles. The equivalent on the actual HEWP has 717 featured
articles:
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D…
XOWA has two category systems: a simple version and an official one. The
XOWA import uses the simple version by default -- mainly because it is
faster and uses less disk space. For Hebrew Wikipedia, the difference is
only about 70 MB and 2 minutes, but for something like English Wikipedia it
can be 10 GB and 60 minutes.
Unfortunately, the simple version is not complete, which is why there are
missing entries. If you want the official category system, you can do the
following in XOWA:
* Go to "home/wiki/Help:Import/Script"
* Change the wiki language from "English" to "Hebrew"
* Change "Category system" to "only update to version 2"
* Make sure you're online (it needs to download the page_props and
categorylinks files from the Wikimedia dump servers)
* Press "Import now"
* Wait about 2 minutes for the import to complete.
* Revisit "he.wikipedia.org/wiki/קטגוריה:ערכים_מומלצים
<http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9D>".
You'll see the same contents as the online version (with a 717 count)
Alternatively, you can also download the full Hebrew package at
https://archive.org/details/Xowa_hebundle_latest . These bundles include
the "official" category system by default
Other than these (presumably just examples of buggy
behavior occurring on
multiple locations), everything worked well.
Cool! Let me know if you find anything else.
Thanks!
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! I've downloaded and tried it now after a long time elapsed since
> my previous attempt. It's really looking good!
>
> Some comments:
>
1. On the Hebrew Wikipedia (which is the collection I
chose to download),
you seem to have packaged the Wikipedia: namespace as well. Was this
deliberate?
>
2. In the page [[פורטל:יהדות]], the following raw
wikitext was rendered,
instead of the contents of the categoryTree:
להלן קטגוריות המשנה שתחת קטגוריית יהדות בוויקיפדיה:
<categoryTree>יהדות</categoryTree>
>
> 3. the featured article category -- [[קטגוריה:ערכים_מומלצים]] -- seems to
> find only 2 articles. The equivalent on the actual HEWP has 717 featured
> articles:
>
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D…
>
> Other than these (presumably just examples of buggy behavior occurring on
> multiple locations), everything worked well. I have not yet tried
> downloading an image package.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Asaf
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:14 PM, gnosygnu <gnosygnu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> v1.9.1 is a general release. Download links are available here:
>>
http://xowa.sourceforge.net/download.html
>>
>> These are the major changes since the last announcement (v1.7.1):
>>
>> * Clickable Image Map. See:
https://en.wikivoyage.org
>> * Popups over anchor links. See: [[Help:Popups#Usage]]
>> * Support for Wikivoyage extensions: Insider and Related Sites
>> * New UI features such as restore previous pages
>> ([[Help:Options/Startup]], collapse Wikidata links, and hide XOWA sidebar
>> [[Help:Options/Wiki/HTML]].
>> * Performance enhancements for reduced memory and faster speed
>> * Minor parser improvements / enhancements, particularly for Scribunto
>> * Updated image package for 2014-08-11 English Wikipedia
>> * New image packages for Malay, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Danish, and
>> Serbo-Croatian wikis
>> * Updated image packages for Swedish, Ukrainian, Greek, Japanese, Danish,
>> French, Polish, Arabic, and Chinese wikis
>>
>> A full list of changes is available at [[Help:Change_log]] inside XOWA
>>
>> As always, any feedback is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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