Hi Hraban (et al),

On Mon, Jan  5, 2026 at 17:10 (+0100), Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Status: working on the mirror setup.

Great!

> Am 05.01.26 um 16:22 schrieb Jim:
>>> https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner

>> That sounds reasonable to me.  Precluding the alternative choice (below),
>> as long as it inhibits enthusiastic contributors from wasting their time
>> making updates to wiki pages, where the updates will disappear, that should
>> be good.

> ATM our Command extension is incompatible with the script’s API approach.
> Without the Command pages, the wiki is only half as useful.

If that!

> Taco is looking for a solution (but rewriting the extension would be too
> much).

Too bad it is not as easy as one would like.

>> Mind you, not having looked around, the possibility that someone had
>> already created some all-singing, all-dancing software for exactly this
>> situation did occur to me.

> Other scraping solutions, e.g. via wget, are blocked ATM by Anubis.
> (AI bots killing servers otherwise.)
> Maybe we could allow the IPs of the mirror servers.

Even then, would that help the Command pages issue?

>> Next steps?  Who should give blessing (or positive assent or ...) to this?
>> (Hans?  Taco?  Wolfgang?  ...?)

>> While it is nice of Hraban to volunteer his server, since (AFAIK) TUG is
>> slightly more well known than Hraban, perhaps hosting the mirror on TUG
>> would provide ConTeXt with a bit more (well-deserved) visibility.  (Would
>> it be egregiously redundant to have two mirrors?  If not, why not?)

> We can have more than one, and I’m free to play with my server…

Nice of you to volunteer!

                                Jim
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