Gopherpedia

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc, comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject	Gopherpedia
Date	2014-03-12 15:22 +0000
Message-ID	<20140312152233.67afd1d2.rsw@therandymon.com> (permalink)

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Introducing: gopherpedia: everything you expect from wikipedia,
provided in plain text over the gopher protocol.

The developer, Colin Mitchell of MuffinLabs, announced the project last
yere, here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general/4628

At 
http://muffinlabs.com/2013/06/14/gopherpedia---the-free-encyclopedia-via-gopher/
he writes:
"14 June 2013

My last release for Project Dump week is Gopherpedia -- a mirror of
Wikipedia in gopherspace. If you happen to have a gopher client, you
can see it at gopherpedia.com on port 70. Otherwise, you can browse to
gopherpedia.com and view it via a web proxy.

A couple of years ago, I landed on the idea of a gopher interface to
Wikipedia. Originally it was probably a joke, but it stuck with me. So
one day I registered a domain name and got to work. The first thing I
needed to do was build a gopher server, because none of the currently
available options were up to the task. So I built Gopher2000. Then, I
quickly realized that the current gopher proxies weren't any good
either, so I built GoPHPer. Once both of those were written (well over
a year ago), it didn't seem like there was much left to be done --
gopherpedia should've been ready to launch.

But I hadn't reckoned on the challenges of churning through a database
dump of Wikipedia..."

It's an interesting read and an interesting project.  I've used it a
couple times since then (the Lynx browser still speaks the gopher
protocol).  At a minimum, it provides for easy wikipedia searching from
the command line without need to pull up a GUI browser, if you're into
that sort of thing.

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Gopherpedia RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-12 15:22 +0000
  Re: Gopherpedia Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-12 15:37 +0000
  Re: Gopherpedia 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-12 12:22 -0400
    Re: Gopherpedia RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-12 17:42 +0000
      Re: Gopherpedia Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-12 19:06 +0000
        Re: Gopherpedia RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-12 19:25 +0000
          Re: Gopherpedia Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-12 20:00 +0000
        Re: Gopherpedia Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 21:21 +0000
          Re: Gopherpedia Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-12 21:43 +0000
        Re: Gopherpedia Conceited Jerk <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2014-03-17 10:38 -0500
      Re: Gopherpedia scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-03-12 19:36 +0000
        Re: Gopherpedia greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-12 20:55 +0000
          Re: Gopherpedia Conceited Jerk <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2014-03-17 10:44 -0500
      Re: Gopherpedia Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-12 21:32 +0000
        Re: Gopherpedia Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-13 00:35 +0000
        Re: Gopherpedia "Christopher M. Hobbs" <hobbsc@ma.sdf.org> - 2014-03-15 23:30 -0500
          Re: Gopherpedia "Christopher M. Hobbs" <hobbsc@ma.sdf.org> - 2014-03-15 23:37 -0500
          Re: Gopherpedia RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-16 16:13 +0000
          Re: Gopherpedia 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-16 23:17 -0400
      Re: Gopherpedia Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2014-03-16 20:46 +0000

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