Dashboard/Image databases
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Credits
XOWA would like to thank archive.org for generously hosting these files on their servers.
HTML databases
New wikis are released through App/Import/Download_Central. The current list of wikis are at Wiki_setup/Listing as well as Special:XowaDownloadCentral. Please use the databases from these lists first before the ones below.
Wikitext databases
The following table lists image databases for old wikis. These databases are obsolete, and replaced by those in Download Central.
Information [7]
Package types
XOWA releases 2 different types of packages.
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.xowa: This is the new package type. These files should all go into the wiki folder.[8]
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For example, English Wikipedia .xowa files should go to
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org. It would have files like the following:-
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-core.xowa -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-text-ns.000.xowa -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-file-core.xowa -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-file-ns.000-db.001.xowa - etc.
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For example, English Wikipedia .xowa files should go to
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.sqlite3: This is the old package type. These will be replaced with new .xowa packages. These files should be placed in two folders:
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Files that are labeled "wiki" should go into the wiki folder.
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For example, English Wikipedia wiki .sqlite3 databases should go to
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org. It would have files like the following:-
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org.000.sqlite3 -
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org.001.sqlite3 - etc.
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For example, English Wikipedia wiki .sqlite3 databases should go to
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Files that are labeled "images" should go into the file folder.
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For example, English Wikipedia file .sqlite3 databases should go to
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org. It would have files like the following:-
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\wiki.mnt.sqlite3 -
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\fsdb.main\fsdb.atr.00.sqlite3 -
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\fsdb.main\fsdb.bin.0000.sqlite3 - etc.
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For example, English Wikipedia file .sqlite3 databases should go to
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Files that are labeled "wiki" should go into the wiki folder.
File types
- .7z: This file should be unzipped to the root folder. All files should be automatically unzipped to the right location.
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For example, if you unzip
Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_00.7ztoC:\xowayou should have a file calledC:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org\fsdb.main\fsdb.abc.sqlite3
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.sqlite: These files are
*.000.sqlite3files that should be moved to the/xowa/wiki/wiki_name/directory.
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For example, if you downloaded
en.wikipedia.org.000.sqlite3for enwiki, then the final path will beC:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org.000.sqlite3
Notes
- ^ Url for wiki
- ^ Date of the database dump that was used to generate the file. See the Wikimedia dump servers
- ^ Date the file was uploaded to archive.org
- ^ Size of file (in GB)
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^ Type of download:
- .xowa: New format. All files go to /xowa/wiki/wiki_name
- .sqlite3: Old format. Files go to /xowa/wiki/wiki_name and /xowa/file/wiki_name
- ^ URL for http download
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^ For simplicity's sake, these instructions use a root folder of
C:\xowafor all examples. Please adjust as necessary for Linux / Mac OS X. -
^ Note the following types of folders:
- Root folder
C:\xowaand it would containC:\xowa\xowa_windows_64.jar. It could also beC:\Program Files\xowaorD:\My folder\xowawhereD:is a flash card. For Linux users, the root folder could be/home/your_user_name/xowa/. For Mac OS X users, the root folder could be/Users/your_user_name/xowa/.- Wiki folder
C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org. If you're using German Wikisource, then the wiki folder would beC:\xowa\wiki\de.wikisource.org- File folder
C:\xowa\file\en.wikipedia.org. If you're using German Wikisource, then the wiki folder would beC:\xowa\file\de.wikisource.org -
^ Note the following:
- The wiki files should be downloaded to the Wiki folder. See the footnote on XOWA folder types. [8]
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The wiki download has been separated into multiple parts. If you want a complete copy of English Wikipedia, you should download all parts. If you want to save a few GB, you can skip the parts that are not required:
- core: (required: 513 MB) needed for wiki to work.
- main articles: (required: 11.6 GB) has all main articles in the wiki
- other articles: (optional: 2.9 GB) has other articles in the wiki, such as Portal, Wikipedia, Help, etc
- search: (optional: 364 MB) needed for Special:Search
- category: (optional: 2.9 GB) needed for Category pages