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