Wikipedia Mirror for Afghanistan

[kelson42]

Following https://twitter.com/AlexHinojo/status/1426902378020843522

[kelson42]

It seems there is no Wikipedia in Dari, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari. But it might be worth to make the one in Farsi instead. ZIM file is available at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_fa_all.zim.

Wikipedia ZIM file in Pasto is available at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_ps_all.zim.

[arky]

We never got enough momentum with Dari(prs) contributions in most open source community projects.

[lidel]

Sadly the build is broken again (confirmed that it is not specific to pa, latest my is also broken, most likely other ones too).
I am running fa now, but it will take a bit more time to confirm.

Filled #101 (my) and #102 (pa) with more details.

Note: I am unable to sink more time into fixing ZIM unpacking and publishing.
It took too long last time (weeks!), engineering overhead is not sustainable imo.

👉 We really need to figure out web-based reader and use original ZIMs
(remove the need for unpacking and manual customization)

[lidel]

That being said, I was able to build fa from wikipedia_fa_all_maxi_2021-06.zim and here we were lucky: it seems to mostly work:

• https://cf-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafybeicpnshmz7lhp5vcowscty4v4br33cjv22nhhqestavb2mww6zbswm/wiki/
• https://dweb.link/ipfs/bafybeicpnshmz7lhp5vcowscty4v4br33cjv22nhhqestavb2mww6zbswm/wiki/
• it is not pinned anywhere yet, so if above fail to load, use local gateway + preconnect to my seed box: ipfs swarm connect /p2p/12D3KooWR81DyobWoLV8H42jEgfdVoYXjxe9PRtJmgSTZTNSR8ua

I looked into this and "Dari" is official name for "Afghan Persian". According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari delivering Farsi wiki most likely provides the best value here:

Apart from a few basics of vocabulary, there is little difference between formal written Persian of Afghanistan and of Iran.

[lidel]

DNSLink at https://fa.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/ should be working.

@arky @kelson42 it is ok to share the above link, or encourage people to install Brave and open ipfs://bafybeicpnshmz7lhp5vcowscty4v4br33cjv22nhhqestavb2mww6zbswm if DNS is censored.

(The PR #103 will be merged when I get a confirmation that is pinned outside my machine.)

[arky]

Yes, Please \o/

Kudos @lidel @kelson42