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  • fetch

    Discontinued wik is use to get information about anything on the shell using Wikipedia. [Moved to: https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/wik] (by yashsinghcodes)

  • I think it was fixed with this commit - https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/fetch/commit/0e0c59b4d24da...

  • gitignore

    A collection of useful .gitignore templates

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  • pywikibot

    A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.

  • Wikipedia

    A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API

  • bin

    My ~/bin dir (by abuseofnotation)

  • My version of this is a bash script that opens the article in lynx:

    https://github.com/boris-marinov/bin/blob/main/wiki

  • Surfraw

  • emacs-w3m

    emacs-w3m, a simple Emacs interface to w3m

  • There's also a package "emacs-w3m", an interface for the w3m web browser: https://github.com/emacs-w3m/emacs-w3m

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • gopherpedia.com

    gopher server for gopherpedia.com, an interface to wikipedia

  • I don't have time to look too closely into it, but my guess is that it's a bug somewhere in the parser: https://github.com/muffinista/gopherpedia.com/blob/main/pars...

    The markup behind that article isn't terribly complicated, but the parser isn't perfect either. For example: https://gopherpedia.com/gopherpedia.com/Gustave_Dore has some glitches in the lead sentence.

    My suspicion was that it's getting confused by the line above the intro, but I pasted the article's source code into Wikipedia:Sandbox and gopherpedia read the intro just fine. Strange!

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