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Authors: Ben K. <benk@tilde.team>
Date: 2021-01-18
Today I spent some time adding to the GMI version of the AET's website, mirrored at:
AET stands for the Association of Esperantists of Tajikistan (Asocio de Esperantisoj de Taĝikio). The site is small and rarely gets updated, and I feel the information is of historical significance in documenting the Esperanto association in Tajikistan. The photos alone are quite important.
The task of converting the pages to GMI probably could have been automated, but I end up doing it by hand since it amounts to little more than copy-pasting the text and making very tiny adjustments like formatting headers and spacing to it looks reasonably good in Gemini. Decisions had to be made.
The site is an interesting mix of trilingual content: Esperanto, Tajik (Persian), and Russian. I started working on it again today because I did find a way to automate one crucial part, which is recursively downloading the site's content with wget and merging it into the Gemini version. That basically means the images and directory layout is already there, and I'm just copy-pasting whatever is in the .htm files into .gmi files; adding the images is just another copy-paste job.
Today's content was rather interesting since I added the information about the association (its members) and the featured articles. I am included as an honory member, which may have been the last update to the site.
Of course, I'm sure acrhive.org already saved the site from perishing, but I just thought a Gemini version would be cool. Also the original formatting is not so great, and the HTML in some cases is kind of bugged out, so conversion to GMI is like not only saving the content but improving its format. I even though about exporting it back to HTML once I'm done.
I should add, that the information about me on the site is a bit off, but I decided to keep it all intact without changing any of the text. If one I end up making a new site / webpage for the association, I'll probably leave this copy as it is and edit the new one.