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2something 4d ago

Finally, after 16 months of effort, I have finished converting Pandora's Tale Wiki into a gemini capsule.

I've mentioned before that the entire wiki started as a single table, which listed all named characters and some unnamed characters in the first seven chapters.

I initially made it as a spreadsheet on my computer. I uploaded the table to Google sheets to share it, and I converted it into a wiki to update it. Everything else in the wiki came out of that table.

When I started converting the wiki to geminispace, I immediately ran into a hurdle: gemtext, the markup language of geminispace, does not support tables.

Over the past year, I attempted several hacks to get the tables from the MediaWiki version of the wiki into the new version. Each of those hacks suffered from at least one of the following three issues:
* It would be difficult for me to update,
* It was hard for people using screenreaders,
* The web proxy would have more features than the gemini capsule,
* It looked bad to me.

The opinion of many geminauts is that you should not use tables in geminispace. I considered early on whether it would be possible to reformat all the tables in the wiki using lists and subsections. However, I resisted the idea largely because it felt weird to purge all tables from PTW when the entire wiki started as a table.

Last night and this morning, however, I gave it a try. Every table in the entire wiki has been converted into ordinary gemtext lists, separated by section and subsection headers.

The result, when I use a gemini browser to look at the very first PTW article in its new format is...I kinda like it?!?

It isn't perfect, and I'll probably do some additional reformatting later, and there are likely even more tweaks I want to do to the web proxy, but the page does express the relevant information without any awkward hacks.

Now that I'm finally done with the transition (heh) to gemtext, I will shut down the legacy version of Pandora's Tale Wiki.

The new (and henceforth, only) version of Pandora's Tale Wiki is at
gemini://pandorastale.wiki

and proxied to
https://pandorastale.wiki

Thank you to @comicsbyxan for creating such an incredible world, and thanks to @avghelper for hosting the gemini capsule and source and making the wiki possible.

#GeminiProtocol #Geminispace #PandorasTaleWiki #Wikiverse

Welcome to Pandora's Tale Wiki!

2something Apr 22

Voting is open for the Miraheze board of directors!
https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Community_Directors/Elections/2026/Nominations

Three candidates are running for two seats, including two incumbents and one challenger.

#Miraheze #Wikis #Wikiverse

Community Directors/Elections/2026/Nominations - Miraheze Meta

On this page, you could nominate your fellow wiki editors and community members to serve as Community Directors on WikiTide's Board of Directors. Nominations are...

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b-unicyling Mar 31

I'm working on a #uMap of all my #Sketchfab models (http://u.osmfr.org/m/1380431/) which is taking for-e-ver. I wish it was an in-built feature on Sketchfab, if people wanted to add coordinates to their #photogrammetry scans. I guess I'm spoiled from #LinkedOpenData in the #Wikiverse and #OpenStreetMap.

Sketchfab models

Locations of where the originals of the Sketchfab models on [[https://sketchfab.com/b-unicycling/models|my account]] are located. The single models have green markers, collections for sites have pink markers. The icons on the markers indicates whether a drone was involved in the shoot. You can use all kinds of **filters** by opening the layer control on the left.

uMap

Anja Gerber Feb 24

Hacking the bishops 😇 😎 auf dem heutigen #Workshop @DHdKonferenz 💻

#DHd2026 #Wikibase #Wikidata #Wikiverse @GermaniaSacra #Normdaten #Datenmodellierung #Datenqualität #Datenintegration

Christian Erlinger Jan 25

RE: https://social.edu.nl/@egonw/115954595299720952

like it! that's also my request to everyone editing the #wikiverse - if you cite websites, please archive the site before you submit your edit!

Alexander Winkler Jan 21

There are some really useful suggestions in this article as to what #GLAM|s can do in the #Wikiverse / on #wikidata (it's pretty straightforward to get started): https://culturalcontent.substack.com/p/sharing-the-worlds-paintings-on-wikidata

Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata

Hi there Team Content,

Cultural Content

NFDI4Objects Oct 1, 2025

Wir vernetzen sehr heterogene #Daten auf verschiedenen Ebenen, um sie für den #Wissensgraphen verfügbar zu machen, der auf #CIDOCCRM basiert. Die Daten stammen aus den #Geisteswissenschaften, den #Naturwissenschaften, der #Konservierung und #Restaurierung, aber auch aus dem #Wikiverse. Verschiedene Welten werden #ereignisbasiert in Verbindung gebracht. Als Basis dafür benötigen wir einen #Objektkerndatensatz, der sich aus den Bedarfen der jeweiligen #TaskAreas speist. #NFDI4Objects #N4OCM2025

Siobhan Leachman Sep 9, 2025

My amazing #Wiki colleague Tiago Lubiana has released this lovely video on the #BHLImageExporer. This tool (https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/) uses the structured data added to Biodiversity Heritage Library images in Wikimedia Commons to facilitate image exploration and reuse by the wider #Wikiverse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9iknIDtkQ #HighlyRecommended

2something Jul 1, 2025

Lukewarm take: If a wiki community (or any other online community) is "professional," that makes me way less interested in spending my free time there.

I'm particularly going to critique the Gaming Wiki Network, whose criteria for joining state

Welcoming: Wikis should have a positive, welcoming, and well-managed community. Their conduct should be respectful and professional, including on wiki social media accounts. They should be well-moderated so as to not foster a harmful environment.(Emphasis mine)

I don't think a "professional" wiki is welcoming, especially to communities who have historically been excluded from "professional" settings.

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