xowa

We have hosted the application xowa in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about xowa:

XOWA is a desktop application for reading and editing Wikipedia offline

(XOWA has moved to http: //gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/download.html).

Features:

• Displays all articles from Wikipedia without an internet connection
• Works with any Wikimedia wiki, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage
• Works with any non-English language wiki such as French Wikipedia, German Wikisource, Dutch Wikivoyage, etc.
• Works with other specialized wikis such as Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, or any other MediaWiki generated dump
• Renders articles with full HTML formatting
• Downloads images and other files on demand
• Updates your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia database backups.
• Sets up Simple Wikipedia in less than 5 minutes
• Navigates between offline wikis (click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and it will open your offline version of Wiktionary)
• Edits articles
• Installs to a flash memory card for portability to other machines
• Can be customized at many levels: from keyboard shortcuts to HTML layouts to internal options
• View the HTML for any wiki page
• Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box
• Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special: AllPages
• Find a word on a page.
• Access a history of viewed pages
• Bookmark your favorite pages.

Audience: End Users/Desktop.
User interface: Java SWT.
Programming Language: Java.
Database Environment: SQLite.
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