Thank you so much for the detailed answer! I've been looking for a
replacement for wikitaxi ever since discovering it, being aware that
it will become obsolete without updates if changes are made on the
wikimedia (seems I jinxed myself as that's exactly what happened xD)
but none of the other tools listed under the datadump handling help
page were what I was looking for. Either it was required to setup a
local server, extract the dump itself or in general took to long and
to much space to process the database and make it usable :(
Thank you for the advice - I will try the app as soon as possible
because I don't have a regular access to the internet and am highly
dependant on the offline version for my college homework.
I will gladly make another post here once I've tested everything out :)
P.S. Since your app seems similar, are you familiar with Evopedia?
I've been googling alternatives for offline wiki and stumbled upon it
but found no real reviews. It seems it's still quite new.
2013/12/10, gnosygnu <gnosygnu(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi Tina!
English Wiktionary has been using Scribunto since at least May of this
year. I'm not sure how Wikitaxi handled these dumps; it may have just
been squashing the errors.
As you've discovered, Wikitaxi will not be able to handle the #invoke
tags in the newer wiki dumps from this year. Given that Wikitaxi was
last released on 2010-06-20, I doubt it will be resolved anytime soon.
If you want to continue using Wikitaxi, I'd recommend you use a dump
from earlier this year:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/20130225/. Scribunto was being
rolled out at this time, so it's likely that this Wiktionary dump
would not have #invoke tags.
If you want to try another offline application, you can try XOWA:
http://xowa.sourceforge.net [1]. It imports database dumps, is
portable, handles Scribunto, and is open-source. You can look at some
screenshots here:
http://xowa.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html .
They're for English Wikipedia, but you'll see English Wikisource and
Wikimedia Commons there as well. I've also uploaded a screenshot of
"martial" in XOWA from the English Wiktionary 2013-12-02 dump:
http://i.imgur.com/xi97qNZ.jpg. If you want a complete package of
English Wiktionary with images, you can download it from here:
https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiktionary_2013-11-17_complete .
Otherwise, you can download XOWA and import the latest dump by
visiting Help:Import/List
Hope this helps.
[1]: For full disclosure's sake, I am the XOWA dev.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Tina Lukša <vale2712(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The reason I think it's a dump issue is
because a former data dump (it
was either from late september or early october) worked just fine - no
code text but a perfect translation on several languages beneath the
etymology section for each word.
And I didn't even heard of Scribunto until now - if I understod
correctly it's an extension for MediaWiki, which I am not using.
I use WikiTaxi for offline wiki browsing which is an executable app
and which only requiers the taxi importer for the bz2 dump and the
taxi app itself which alows me to view an imported wiki. There were
never requierments for any extensions - it's a straightforward
portable app.
Unfortunately, once I update a wiki I delete the old import so I
neither know the exact date of the working dump nor can I take a
screencap to prove that everything worked just fine prior the update
:/
Tina
2013/12/9, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
Tina Lukša, 08/12/2013 18:01:
Hello! I am using WikiTaxi for importing wiki
databases and their
offline usage. I've never had issues before but the latest two English
wiktionary databases haven't been working correctly. As seen in the
screenshot, the translations from various languages can't be seen -
instead I can see only the code.
What makes you think it's a dump issue? You seem to lack the Scribunto
extension to render those lua-based templates: install it.
Nemo
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