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colecmac at protonmail.com colecmac at protonmail.com
Sat Jun 20 01:16:54 BST 2020
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This is very cool and works well, nice work! That's a good way of handlinginline 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 donea good job with this mirror/proxy and I'm happy it exists. But in generalI 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?
:-)
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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