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Peter Vernigorov pitr.vern at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 23:46:11 BST 2020
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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 thatmakes request to wikipedia API, parses wikitext into an HTML DOM(since wikitext supports HTML tags) which is then simplified intotext/gemini. This process is not perfect and there are quite a fewimperfections. But before I sink more time into this, I wonder iftext/gemini is indeed the best format for wikipedia articles. Pagesare usually huge, with lots of links. And this is even beforeconsiderations for how best to handle images, tables, special symbols,special tags, etc. From trying to browse it myself, my firstimpression is that wikipedia format can't/shouldn't be simplified anyfurther 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?
:-)
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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