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Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by snvzz on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:28AM (#30464907)
Useful, although the name is very unfortunate. It collides with a common installed by default tool in BSDs, and doesn't really suggest Wikipedia either.

I'd suggest wp as prefix in the command name. Eg: wpget, wpfetch would work.

Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by yashwastaken on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:22AM (#30465679)
Thank you so much for the feedback. Actually i started it has a personal project for my linux machine but my friends suggested me to push it to the github and i did not know about BSD already fetch(same name). I will definitely change the name after this submission end(as it will break the link). As for now you can directly run it from fetch folder with python3. All name suggestions are welcome.
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by anned20 on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:34AM (#30464947)
Then you're clashing with WordPress. Something like wikifetch is even better I think.
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by jchoelt on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:46AM (#30465043)
"wp" and "wiki" are both unclear... Which "wiki"?

Just call this "wikipedia".

Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by ant6n on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:21AM (#30465272)
But what if support for other wikis gets added?
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by capableweb on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:51AM (#30465487)
But what if it starts supporting other webpages too, not just wikis?

Let's just name stuff for what their stated purpose is, instead of trying to invent "maybes" and name it after that.

Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by prmoustache on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:47AM (#30466258)
Then call it weboob.

I am already out --> []

Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by slig on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:14AM (#30465637)
What about `wget` then? (wiki* + get)
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by unfocussed_mike on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:26AM (#30465713)
Yep, definitely no clash there. ;-)
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by hun3 on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:58AM (#30465526)
mwfetch (MediaWiki fetch)
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by NoboruWataya on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:22AM (#30465681)
Morrowind fetch à la OpenMW? :)

Kidding - although an API for Morrowind would be neat...

Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by snvzz on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:36AM (#30469089)
That's a decent name.
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by snvzz on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:48AM (#30465058)
wordpress isn't part of any base system, at least.

It's just some PHP (eww) blog software.

Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by unfocussed_mike on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:25AM (#30465705)
What anned20 means is that quite a lot of managed hosting has the (incredible) WP-CLI installed:

https://wp-cli.org/

The (completely invaluable) shell command is "wp".

Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by lionkor on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:25AM (#30465707)
eww? like the emacs builtin browser? ;)
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by kragen on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:24AM (#30468951)
MediaWiki is also written in PHP?
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by bityard on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:19PM (#30470346)
Man, are you going to be annoyed to hear that I'm working on a personal knowledge base that I've decided to simply call "notes".
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia by gorjusborg on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:11AM (#30467449)
wik