| Hey. I just happened to check this thread and saw your response. To answer your question, yes: the image databases were prepared with expectations of a standard Wikimedia wiki. These wikis have a standard file layout of wikipedia/wikidomain/thumb/hash0/hash01/name_of_file/thumbnail_file/; EX: wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg/270px-The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg. If you're using a MediaWiki installation, your files should be laid out similarly. You can change the XOWA config file to explicitly specify this WMF layout. XOWA allows the user to work directly with the WMF tarballs, so this should work for you as well. You can look at this thread for another user's attempts: https://sourceforge.net/p/xowa/discussion/general_archived/t... If you have questions, feel free to ask / post. The other alternative is that XOWA should have the ability to read from a non-Wikimedia directory. Another user asked for this for his own private wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/xowa/tickets/159/. In this scenario, you'd have all your files in some root directory (C:\images) and XOWA would index the directory and look-up the file by filename. You would probably need imageMagick and inkscape installed though. Regarding your other point: I will probably centralize all the directories, instead of spreading them out between /wiki/, /file/, /user/. I had a reason for this layout, but it's causing confusion among a few users. You could always zip the files with relative paths, and instruct the users to unzip the zip. For example, the XOWA wikiquote package is one zip file: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwikiquote_2013-11-19_comp.... If you unzip it in the /xowa/ dir, it will automatically put all files into relevant folders In the end, if you have a routine set up for kiwix, you're probably best sticking with it. Keep in mind that XOWA does offer some other nice features that you may / may not need. (editable wiki pages; Wikimedia Lua code). It also offers a lot customization. For example, one of the users added Mathjax to XOWA on his own. (he then proceeded to add a lot more: sorting / collapsing, wikidata skin, redlinks, etc.) Let me know if you're interested, and I'll see what I can do to help. Otherwise, thanks for the use case scenario. It's definitely something I'll consider supporting in the future! |