Thanks, I added this wikipedia mirror/proxy and Alex's mirror to the list. Paper On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:46:11AM +0200, Peter Vernigorov 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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