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...

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@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:%D7...

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@gmail.com wrote:

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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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