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The wikipedia article on gopher is a trainwreck |
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July 19th, 2021 |
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Oh boy, I have spent a few hours today editing the Wikipedia article |
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on gopher (protocol)... I have to say, I am not impressed by the actions |
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of some other editors there... The article has a section for web |
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browsers which support gopher, and folks are adding their gopher-only |
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clients (i.e. they don't do WWW at all) to that section as a shameless |
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form of self-promotion. Offenders include ACID (a closed-source and |
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potentially malware gopher, TFTP, and G6 client), Gophie (gopher-only), |
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and Lagrange (gopher, finger, and gemini client)... |
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The web clients section desperately needs to be reconsiled with the |
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Template:Gopher_clients too... |
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Other issues with the article include presenting grossly obsolete |
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software as-if it was maintained. MSIE6? Come on folks. |
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What a mess. Any help is appreciated. Also comments on the talk page. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gopher_(protocol) |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Gopher_clients |
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gopher.zcrayfish.soy gopher root |
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At least 2738 other folks realize that web browsers != gopher clients. |
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