Working Towards Completion of Gemini as a Mirror
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-07-09 01:23:52 UTC
- Modified: 2021-07-09 01:23:52 UTC
Work in progress: Techrights wiki in gemini://
Summary: While we do not actually migrate to Gemini, we do intend to offer it as a complete option or alternative, with a 'first-class' experience and feature parity (to the extent possible given the artificial limitations of the protocol)
THIS is a bit of a heads-up for our gemini://
followers, who aren't few (over 8,000 page requests yesterday).
At the moment we algorithmically convert the
Techrights wiki -- hopefully
all of the wiki, not just the articles (nearly 31,000 of them) -- into Gemini (protocol/space/text) with the intention of having it pick up wiki
updates as well (from HTTP) without manual intervention. It already updates as part of the cron jobs. It's a rather big project, it does appear to have been attempted before, and it may be useful/handy to other
MediaWiki users because the syntax is very widely used.
We'll say more when this is done or nearly done. Gemini is self-hosted from home and next week we get fibre installed. Less limitation, lower latency.
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