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:%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9D
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". 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!