Hello all, I’m looking for some people to beta test a gemini front-end to Wikipedia I’ve been building. Specifically I”m looking for feedback on the interface, and any articles that aren’t rendering well. There is a “report a problem” link on the bottom of every page. While some big items remain (no support for tables yet) others have been solved (math formulas work). Only the English WP is supported for now. I’ll need a little help from people who know other languages to get the international versions working. Reach out if you use WP in other languages 🙌
Thanks for your help! you can try it below:
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/
2 years ago · 👍 moddedbear, mischk, bacardi55, martin, astroseneca, a1000duck, cobradile94, kaylee, skyjake, mfoo2, sam
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/
Thanks for the feedback, especially re: live mirrors. I’m using the Wikipedia API and the only limits I saw for that were to include a user-agent with contact info and to keep it under < 100 reqs/sec. Honestly I had considered adding a caching layer since many clients reload a url when bringing tabs into focus.I’ll see if the Parse API supports conditional GETs. Worse case I can just cache for a day
Alex Schroeder’s vault.transjovian.org also uses the API as well without caching:
https://metacpan.org/dist/App-Phoebe/source/lib/App/Phoebe/Wikipedia.pm · 2 years ago
https://metacpan.org/dist/App-Phoebe/source/lib/App/Phoebe/Wikipedia.pm
Wikipedia doesn't like live mirrors where you hit their servers each time but they don't mind ones where you use a caching proxy or similar where you check whether the page has changed. So you can cache your local gemtext on the Gemini server and just send minimal check to confirm it is up to date
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors · 2 years ago
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors
Wikipedia is a bit touchy about live mirrors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading but maybe you can get away with it if you keep a low profile. · 2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading
Wow, excellent work!! · 2 years ago
Yoooo! This is sick, great work! Bookmarked :D Only thing I'd say is maybe the images could be proxied in a larger size? But I totally understand wanting to keep them small to save your own bandwidth. · 2 years ago
Nice capsule :) Thanks for building it :)
(PS: Let me know if you need help with the French version of wikipedia) · 2 years ago
looks like you can go forward without any restrictions, these are the licenses applied to Wikipedia:
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · 2 years ago
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
I wonder if you are not going to infringe any laws or licenses that can put you on a risk... 🤔
Please, check before if you aren't doing anything illegal before. 🙏 · 2 years ago
This looks really nice at first glance! Added to bookmarks, definitely going to keep using this · 2 years ago