This is very cool and works well, nice work! That's a good way of handling inline links, I'm going to add that as an option to md2gemini. Do you think you will add caching to this service, if you haven't already? Probably would improve response times a lot. > I wonder if text/gemini is indeed the best format for wikipedia articles. It is not, mostly because of the lack of inline links. However, you've done a good job with this mirror/proxy and I'm happy it exists. But in general I wouldn't recommend text/gemini for wiki type stuff. makeworld ??????? Original Message ??????? On Friday, June 19, 2020 6:46 PM, Peter Vernigorov <pitr.vern at gmail.com> wrote: > 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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