Blog/2017-09

From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application

Release: v4.5.15.1709 (2017-09-17 21:00 Sun)

The PC version is a minor release. It fixes parsing issues for Spanish wikis.

The PC version is a trivial release. It updates the list of wikis for Download Central.

(Wiki) Publish 2017-08 Polish wikis and 2017-09 Spanish wikis with full-text search. Also, 2017-08, 2017-07 English Wikipedia, and 2017-07 German Wikipedia.

These wikis have been published over the course of the past several weeks. You can get them from Download Central or see the following links:

(PC) Fix parser issues including "gplx.Err: index is out of bounds" in Spanish Wikipedia and "Module:Location map:353 Malformed coordinates value" in English Wikipedia

There were two notable parser fixes:

  • Several dozen film pages in Spanish Wikipedia would have a script error with "gplx.Err: index is out of bounds". This was due to some changes on the Wikimedia side to mw.lua
  • Several dozen geography pages in English Wikipedia would have a script error with Module:Location map:353 Malformed coordinates value. This was due to some faulty logic in XOWA which would still return back a value even when an index didn't exist (EX: {{#invoke:Mod|3=abc}}) and args[2] would return back args[3])

Both of these are fixed in this release

(PC) Fix online import not working on Mac OS X

This was reported separately by a user. It appears that sometime during the past few months, the online import failed for Mac OS X. This version fixes the error.

(PC) Fix full-text search on http_server

This was reported in https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/151

(PC) Add customizable footer

This was requested in order to more closely reproduce the look and feel of Wikipedia. The options can be set at Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.html.page

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I've been slow in uploading wikis. For now, I'm continuing on the same path with Russian as well as the monthly English Wikipedia updates.

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