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A browser that supports JavaScript.

This appears to be one of those sites that should ostensibly be just static text, but the source has none of the content and not even Google's text-only cache manages to show anything. Rather ironic this page is itself inaccessible to users of Plan9...

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It used to be a very simple static website, and much more likely than not was just that at the time people were writing to the wiki

Like last year or something they apparently decided to migrate to this mess of a system, for reasons unknown to me. I think it might be mediawiki software?

> I think it might be mediawiki software?

What? Wikipedia uses MediaWiki, and it looks nothing like that.

It's also functional without JavaScript.

I’m thinking of whatever is used for every wikia site

It's custom, by Ward Cunningham IIRC.

I complained about there being no static site anymore but that was not a priority.

When he took down the c2 wiki I believe it was discussed on HN. I could have sworn this "remodel" site was supposed to be a temporary solution while he moved to a new server.

http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages

   hget http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/WhatIsNotInPlanNine | awk -f prettyprintjson.awk > WhatIsNotInPlanNine.txt
   links WhatIsNotInPlanNine.txt

Try: http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/WhatIsNotInPlanNine There is a JSON representation, and you could presumably write your own parser for the c2 wiki syntax, in whatever programming language you want to do. (They could make the <noscript> to tell you that you can either enable JavaScript or you can access it under http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/ and parse it yourself.)

curl -s http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/WhatIsNotInPlanNine | jq -r .text

works and is GoodEnough

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