[ANN] List of Gemini web mirrors

Wikipedia on Gemini by popular demand:

gemini://wp.pitr.ca/en/Gemini_(constellation)

This is not strictly a mirror, as a dump of wikipedia is quite large -
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20200520/ - but rather a proxy that
makes request to wikipedia API, parses wikitext into an HTML DOM
(since wikitext supports HTML tags) which is then simplified into
text/gemini. This process is not perfect and there are quite a few
imperfections. But before I sink more time into this, I wonder if
text/gemini is indeed the best format for wikipedia articles. Pages
are usually huge, with lots of links. And this is even before
considerations for how best to handle images, tables, special symbols,
special tags, etc. From trying to browse it myself, my first
impression is that wikipedia format can't/shouldn't be simplified any
further than it already is on the web. What do others think?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:45 PM defdefred <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Soon a wikipedia mirror?
>
> :-)
>
> ??????? Original Message ???????
> On Wednesday 17 June 2020 12:24, <paper at tilde.institute> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:17:58AM +0000, solderpunk wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:56:57AM -0400, paper at tilde.institute wrote:
> > > Good job with the "Why?" page! You convinced me quickly.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Solderpunk
> >
> > I wasn't sure the Why page was good enough, thanks alot.
> >
> > Paper
>
>

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