Thanks for the reply! I didn't know about offline-l. I will forward my email there.
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/30/2012 09:08 PM, gnosygnu wrote: >> >> Hi everyone. I wrote an open-source, offline wiki application and >> wanted to announce it here. My apologies if this email is off-topic >> for this mailing list, but I am hoping XOWA will interest some of you. > > > Thank you for sharing! Your post is on-topic here, but you will get a full > target audience at the offline-l mailing list: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > Your email made me wonder whether we have somewhere a list of applications > using the MediaWiki API. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Apps exists but doesn't even qualify as > stub... Maybe someone knows another URL... > > >> XOWA is a standalone application that can read and edit Wikimedia data >> dumps offline. XOWA stands for "XOWA Offlines Wiki Articles!", but it >> also goes by the more generic "XOWA Offline Wiki Application." >> >> XOWA has several features: >> * Displays all articles from a Wikimedia data dump. >> * Works with English Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, as >> well as the non-English language counterparts (for example, French >> Wikipedia). >> * Renders articles with full HTML formatting. >> * Downloads images and other files on demand. >> * Edits articles. >> * Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. >> * Installs to a flash memory card for portability to other machines. >> * Is customizable and extendable at many levels: from keyboard >> shortcuts to HTML layouts to internal options. >> * Is open-source under the AGPLv3 license. >> >> Screenshots of XOWA are available here: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa. Imgur links are listed below: >> * The "Wikipedia" article in English Wikipedia (shows an article): >> http://imgur.com/a/OydBK#0 >> * The "Solar_System#Visual_Summary" section (shows more images): >> http://imgur.com/a/OydBK#1 >> * The "Pythagorean_Theorem#Algebraic_proofs" section (shows Math >> images from LaTeX): http://imgur.com/a/OydBK#2 >> * The "File:Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg" >> image in Wikimedia Commons (shows Wikimedia Commons): >> http://imgur.com/a/OydBK#3 >> * The "France" article in French Wikipedia (shows a non-English >> language wiki): http://imgur.com/a/OydBK#4 >> * The "Sandbox" page in Edit mode (shows edit mode): >> http://imgur.com/a/OydBK#5 >> >> As with anything, there are a few caveats: >> * Initial release: XOWA is currently in an alpha stage and there are >> many defects and omitted features. I'm hoping that 90% of the articles >> on English Wikipedia will render without issues, though the percentage >> will be lower on other wikis. >> * Performance: XOWA may perform slowly, depending on the machine's >> capabilities. As a rough standard of comparison, most pages load in >> less than 5 seconds on my primary machine (a Windows XP 3.4 GHz >> machine with 2 GB RAM and a 2 TB 7200 RPM hard drive). However, on my >> secondary machine (an Ubuntu Linux 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM machine with a 32 >> GB SD card) the threshold is 10 seconds. >> * Divergent code base: XOWA is written in Java and its approach is not >> a direct reproduction of the MediaWiki parser. As such, certain >> articles will render differently. In addition, many extensions have >> not yet been implemented in XOWA. >> * Some assembly required: XOWA requires that a user assemble the >> installation. This includes downloading and unzipping the MediaWiki >> data-dump, installing xulRunner/imageMagick/inkscape/MiKTeX, editing >> the config file, running batch files, etc. Although these should be >> straightforward one-time steps, it does mean that a user must be >> willing to do some technical tinkering to get XOWA to run. >> >> These caveats notwithstanding, I'm hoping you are willing to give XOWA a >> try. >> >> Here are the relevant links: >> * Instructions: http://sourceforge.net/p/xowa/wiki/Home/ >> * Files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/ >> >> If anyone has questions, please ask, and I will be happy to follow-up >> with more details. For reddit users, I am going to post a thread at >> www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia. >> >> Thanks for your time. > > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
