App/Category/Building
From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application
Application setup (GUI)
- Navigate to Dashboard/Import/Offline
- Under "Category system", choose "Upgrade to version 2"
Command-line setup
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Download and extract categorylinks.sql. For example, for Simple Wikipedia, do the following:
- Navigate to http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/
- Download the file marked simplewiki-latest-categorylinks.sql.gz
- Unzip simplewiki-latest-categorylinks.sql.gz. When you are done, you will have a file called /xowa/wiki/simple.wikipedia.org/simplewiki-latest-categorylinks.sql
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Download and extract page_props.sql. For example, for Simple Wikipedia, do the following:
- Navigate to http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/
- Download the file marked simplewiki-latest-page_props.sql.gz
- Unzip simplewiki-latest-page_props.sql.gz. When you are done, you will have a file called /xowa/wiki/simple.wikipedia.org/simplewiki-latest-page_props.sql
- Open up /xowa/xowa_build.gfs and replace the file with the following:
app.bldr.pause_at_end_('n'); app.bldr.cmds { add ('simple.wikipedia.org' , 'text.cat.core'); add ('simple.wikipedia.org' , 'text.cat.link'); add ('simple.wikipedia.org' , 'text.cat.hidden'); } app.bldr.run;
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Run
java -Xmx512m -jar xowa_linux_64.jar --cmd_file xowa_build.gfs --app_mode cmd
For Simple Wikipedia, the entire process should take less than 5 minutes. For English Wikipedia, the process will take about 1 hour.