Wikimedia telnet interface
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Wikimedia telnet interface
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#2I connected and spent a few minutes poking around to try and understand the usefulness of this. Something for those in countries where web traffic is blocked? Is this a power tool just for Wikipedia editors?
Oh, wait, ugh... is this an April Fool's joke?
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#3April fools joke aside, I'd actually use this, but it doesn't seem to fully work. Most articles would not resolve for me and welcome page was joke content.
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#4Yeah, kind of sad that this is an April Fool's joke and not a serious interface. I would love to be able to quickly look stuff up from the terminal.
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#5The revision history of this page indicates this is an April fool's thing. Besides images, I might actually totally love using Wikipedia from the command line. It would fit in well with my general command line usage. The Tor feature is particularly cool.
(Just to be clear, this post is not a joke. I actually use a terminal all day for various tasks so it might fit in well.)
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#6It's a joke, but it really works :)
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#7I would really like it if HN could mark things that are jokes as such, or constrain them to one thread.
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#8I'm actually incredibly disappointed that this isn't a thing. I had a screensaver that would curl a random wikipedia page and display it - but it always looked like hot garbage, due to a bunch of extraneous stuff that I didn't want to bother filtering out. This would have been pretty great. :/
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#9I would really like it if HN could mark things that are jokes as such, or constrain them to one thread.
This is not just a joke; the interface is working (apart from some bugs you might expect at this stage) and while the announcement is clearly a joke, the interface is IMHO pretty cool
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#10The revision history of this page indicates this is an April fool's thing. Besides images, I might actually totally love using Wikipedia from the command line. It would fit in well with my general command line usage. The Tor feature is particularly cool. (Just to be clear, this post is not a joke. I actually use a terminal all day for various tasks so it might fit in well.)
You could look into links/elinks for a command line browser. Or WikipediaFS (http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net)