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  • Wikipedia reader v1.0 released

    From Sebastian from Cornica@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 27 17:45:54 2023
    Wikipedia Reader for System 6 and up has been released. It allows you to retrieve Wikipedia articles via their API and read them on your vintage Macintosh.

    Or in the words of the author:

    Due to Wikipedia no longer serving its API over plaintext HTTP, a plaintext-to-TLS proxy is required to forward requests. Currently this defaults to using a free Cloudflare worker that I've setup, but the settings dialog in the application allows
    changing this to a private proxy if so desired (or perhaps some actual host on wikipedia.org if they ever support plaintext again).

    No translation or conversion is done server-side. Wikipedia Reader accesses the raw Wikitext markup of an article through the Wikipedia API, parses the markup, converts UTF-8 to MacRoman, and displays the text. Basic formatting such as bold, italic,
    underline, and header sizes are supported, and clicking on a hyperlink to another article will jump to that article.

    Info & download: http://jcs.org/2023/10/17/wikipedia

    Disclaimer: I'm not the author, nor in any way affiliated. Just passing
    on the info to my fellow vintage Mac enthusiasts.

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  • From John@21:1/5 to from Cornica on Fri Oct 27 19:18:57 2023
    Sebastian from Cornica <info@cornica.org> writes:

    Wikipedia Reader for System 6 and up has been released. It allows you to retrieve Wikipedia articles via their API and read them on your vintage Macintosh.

    Or in the words of the author:

    Due to Wikipedia no longer serving its API over plaintext HTTP, a
    plaintext-to-TLS proxy is required to forward requests. Currently
    this defaults to using a free Cloudflare worker that I've setup, but
    the settings dialog in the application allows changing this to a
    private proxy if so desired (or perhaps some actual host on
    wikipedia.org if they ever support plaintext again).

    No translation or conversion is done server-side. Wikipedia Reader
    accesses the raw Wikitext markup of an article through the Wikipedia
    API, parses the markup, converts UTF-8 to MacRoman, and displays the
    text. Basic formatting such as bold, italic, underline, and header
    sizes are supported, and clicking on a hyperlink to another article
    will jump to that article.

    Info & download: http://jcs.org/2023/10/17/wikipedia

    Disclaimer: I'm not the author, nor in any way affiliated. Just passing
    on the info to my fellow vintage Mac enthusiasts.

    This is lovely! The increasing prevalence of publicly-accessible HTTP
    APIs should make it relatively easy to bang together custom clients like
    this for a variety of services. All you need is an HTTP client and a
    JSON library. For instance, I've played with a Common Lisp graphical
    client for Internet Archive items; their API isn't pretty, but it's
    usable!

    Josh Stein is really doing some fascinating stuff with old Macs.

    john

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  • From Mike Dee@21:1/5 to from Cornica on Thu Nov 2 00:12:20 2023
    Sebastian from Cornica wrote:

    Wikipedia Reader for System 6 and up has been released. It allows
    you to retrieve Wikipedia articles
    [...]
    Info & download: http://jcs.org/2023/10/17/wikipedia

    Disclaimer: I'm not the author, nor in any way affiliated. Just
    passing on the info to my fellow vintage Mac enthusiasts.

    Thanks.

    Though; Please do check your MT-NW wordwrap settings ;-)

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    dee

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  • From snes1423@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 5 21:12:18 2023
    is there not a way to configure it with other wikis Wikipedia is getting
    to politically biased these days... plus i prefer to have fan wikis like
    the Apple Wiki



    -snes1423

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to twertlesonline@gmail.com on Tue Nov 7 04:09:49 2023
    On 2023-11-06, snes1423 <twertlesonline@gmail.com> wrote:

    Wikipedia is getting to politically biased these daysi

    Only to gullible idiots who fall for right wing propaganda.

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    E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
    I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

    JR

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