Wikipedia mirror over gemini "proxy"

[Travis Briggs]

Hello,

I have an idea for quickly and vastly expanding the amount of content that
is available in Geminispace. What about a Wikipedia mirror/proxy? I put
proxy in quotes because it would modify the documents it returned in order
to be largely text based.

The main thing that's tripping
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_experience> me up is the fact
that wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org> articles are written
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing> with a lot of inline links. And
navigating those links is a key part of the Wikipedia browsing experience.

My naive read of the text/gemini format is that I would have to do
something like:

The main thing that's
=> gemini://gem.wiki-mirror.pizza/article.cgi?Tripping tripping
me up is the fact that
=> gemini://gem.wiki-mirror.pizza/article.cgi?Wikipedia wikipedia
articles are
=> gemini://gem.wiki-mirror.pizza/article.cgi?Writing written
with a lot of inline links.

Which seems really clunky. The other option I'm considering is serving
text/markdown, which I assume most Gemini clients would display as plain
text. The problem then is that [links won't be clickable](http://dev/null).
But maybe the mere existence of so much markdown content would incentivize
some client author to add native support?

Feedback is appreciated, thanks!
-Travis
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