Re:Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia
by Polylactic_acid on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:46AM
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Its incredible how insane this seems from the title but how practical it sounds from the readme..
Right? Basically a modern im feeling lucky meets meta-dns.
Re:Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia
by mathieubordere on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:02AM
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hehe yeah, was thinking the exact same thing
I created whereisscihub.now.sh a while ago for exactly this purpose (but limited to the subset of Sci-Hub, of course, and it used Wikidata as its data source). It has since been taken down by Now.sh.
Just as a heads-up of what you could expect to see happening :)
Re:Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia
by CapriciousCptl on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:43AM
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Could use some sort of verification since Wiki can be gamed.
1. Look at past wiki edits combined with article popularity or other signals to arrive at something like a confidence level.
2. Offer some sort of confirmation check to the user.
I saw a thread a while ago (linked in README) discussing how Wikipedia does a good job keeping track of the domains of websites like Sci-Hub or The Pirate Bay. Someone mentioned checking Wikipedia to find links to these sites, so I thought this would be a fun thing to automate!
To try it out, install an extension or modify your hosts file, then type in the name of a website with the TLD `.idk`.
For example: scihub.idk -> sci-hub.tw
Cheers!