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question for everyone: do you use any of the Wikipedia proxies in Gemini space? if not, why not? if so, what would you change about it or add. for me, it not handling redirects is a big one (search for any fighter jet and you can’t read the article) and not having links to any other Wikipedia articles
2 years ago · 👍 comatoast
@acidus It's a static mirror I extracted from Kiwix-dumps. It's literally just a bunch of compressed HTML files on a hard drive. · 2 years ago
@marginalia I was thinking about how to improve the index of references. for example, when reading an article on the Manhattan Project, references to Oppenheimer or Enrico Fermi or centrifuges are more important than other references. I was thinking about prioritizing the index based on the occurrence of the term in the article. also would are you using a static local copy instead of proxying (or proxying with a local cache?) · 2 years ago
@marginalia Thanks for being open to suggestions. I genuinely prefer your project to the standard wikipedia. I bet many others feel the same too! · 2 years ago
I'll see what's possible with those requests. I honestly hadn't really realized people were using it, but I appear to get a couple of hundred visits per day. · 2 years ago
Gopherpedia is also quite nice: gopher://www.gopherpedia.com/1/ · 2 years ago
@marginalia do you track general stats on visitors per day, clicks, most visited articles, stuff like at all? If so what are the numbers like?
A gemini proxy to your encyclopedia would be very cool. · 2 years ago
@marginalia Foremost wanted to say thank you for maintaining the project! 😊
As for feedback, heres some things that came to me. It would be nice to have a list a which contains links to all images used on the page somewhere at the bottom or maybe chronologically under paragraphs. In some instances its helpful to see the pictures and I would like a way of accessing them without going to main page if thats possible/ not too hard to code in.
Visually theres one thing which I personally wish were different. Theres a black border around the brown/tannish background. I would like the entire page to be the same color. Not a problem at all how it is now though. · 2 years ago
I use Alex's transjovian on occasion. It is nice to have a resource to link to in a post that lets you stay within gemini. For general wiki browsing it would be nice to jump between different pages yes. A nice feature if you're going to work on a new one: The ability to browse other mediawiki sites besides just wikipedia. The CLI app wikicurses can do this. · 2 years ago
@smokey - I'm about to regenerate the encyclopeida.marginalia.nu from a new Kiwix dump soon. Do you have any feedback or things you'd like to see changed? As it's all static rendered HTML, this is this year's chance to make changes :P · 2 years ago
for wikipedia I use the main internet browser with the Privacy Redirect addon enabled and set it to marginalias high-readability encyclopedia over at encyclopedia.marginalia.nu. Any time I click on a wikipedia article the addon redirects me there. I also recently set this up on my phone since I just discovered the kiwi browser which lets you install most desktop chrome addons including Privacy Redirect. · 2 years ago
@acidus Based · 2 years ago
Wikipedia still doesn't very well in a text-only format for me. A lot of things that I like to deal with deal with mathematics and diagrams, for instance. · 2 years ago
I believe Alex runs the only one: gemini://vault.transjovian.org/ · 2 years ago
I didn't know there was such a thing. Link? · 2 years ago