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we are in China, you know...

Install failed due to:

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-109-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v4.2.6
npm ERR! npm v3.5.2
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn

npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the sqlite3 package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs sqlite3
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npm ERR! npm owner ls sqlite3
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npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
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If you help me, I'd be appreciated.

Sending Ctrl-Z from the client side causes the server to suspend, better user input handling is needed for stability/security

You should run this as a hidden service :)

Where's the .onion?

We should regenerate the logoP once a day in order to get the latest signpost, etc.

My favorite feature of Wikipedia is "Random Article", accessible by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

>>> Special:Random
Sorry! Could not fetch "Special:Random" for you.
No worries. There are lots of other pages to read.
Pick a different title.

We should do one last prefix search before fetching the page, and use the one with the proper case if it exists.

Should we emit ANSI escapes for colorizing text?

We could use a better link navigation mechanism.

I am using this from my BBS, most BBS terminal software does not have built in scrollback, a cmdline arg to enable paging after N lines would be good

Steps to reproduce:

$ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org

Expected results:

cool ASCII art logo and informative stuff

Actual results:

Trying 208.80.155.160...
telnet: connect to address 208.80.155.160: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

"-{}-" is used to convert many varients of Chinese, including traditional Chinese (zh-hant) and simplified Chinese (zh-hans), in some wikis like zhwiki.

Example: -{zh-hans:测试;zh-hant:測試}-
It is shown as "测试" for traditional Chinese user, and shown as "測試" for simplified Chinese user.

There are some projects to process it:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/55895 - Gerrit for zhwiki local convert table.
• http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/ZhConversion.php - MediaWiki code for conversion.

A single conversion mark may not greatly affect the article. However, some articles with a general conversion table (at subpages of Template:CGroup / Module:CGroup, included by Template:NoteTA) will add much useless data (for human readers).

Example article: Wiki
More at here.

It may be a large project, with following updates:

• Allow users using zhwiki to choose their language varient
• Parse the conversion table

So we can see if enough folks use this over time to make supporting it worthwhile.

That would greatly help interactive use. q at the prompt to quit the pager, of course.

Reported at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405187