Improvement idea I can implement - Quran translations from Wikipedia

[TAbdiukov]

I have some code that enables displaying several useful Quran translations (especially historical translations), from Wikipedia to any messaging apps. For example,

• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Qur%27an_(Palmer)/Yunus
• https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Koran_(t%C5%82um._Buczacki,_1858)/Rozdzia%C5%82_X

I can integrate this code with IslamBot. I have the following questions:

1. Is this code beneficial (since /quran is already implemented) ?
2. Wikipedia quran translations are originally not designed to be queried by bots (though I don't think anything prevents this), so depending on the source, there are some limitations, which I categorized as follows,
   • Pre-pagination by sura - at most, a bot can query 1 sura at a time
   • Pre-pagination by X ayats in sura - at most, a bot can query x predefined ayats in 1 sura at a time (for example: 10:1 to 10:10, and from 10:10 to 10:20)
   • Pre-pagination by 1 ayat - at most, a bot can query 1 ayat at a time

As such, should the bot try to work within the limitation of 1 query (for example, if bot can query from 10:1 to 10:10; and the user requests 10:1-15, then bot only gives 10:1-10 ?) , should it overcome these limitations by making multiple requests (for example, request 10:1 to 10:10 and 10:10 to 10:20, to give user 10:1-15, however, it can get really excessive if pre-pagination is by 1 ayat at a time). Should the bot maybe inform the user of limitations?

3. Currently, there is no caching implemented, right?
4. What command tag or tags should be used? For example, /quran_wiki_xx (which can later become a problem if there are multiple available translations per language), or /buczacki (which can later become a problem if there are multiple sources available per one translator)

I appreciate your thoughts

[galacticwarrior9]

My understanding is that everything on Wikisource is in the public domain - is that correct?

If so, it might be easier (and more sustainable) to copy the full text of the translations to a local file that can be easily queried (e.g. a JSON file?). That saves us performing a web request.

Instead of adding a new command, we could integrate this into the existing /quran command as follows:

1. If the translation exists locally, retrieve the text from our local source.
2. If it does not, query the quran.com API as we do currently.