Free Software Directory:Infrastructure

New anti-feature templates

This is an excellent first task for our new infrastructure.

The anti-feature text for all entries in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Antifeatures should not be part of the main page since we want to update the main page with pure .wiki files generated from Debian meta-data. Instead the anti-feature wiki text should be placed in special pages that are included in the main page.

Example for Adblock Plus, place this text in Antifeature:Adblock Plus.

{{Antifeature
|Antifeature_description={{AttentionBox
 |title=Antifeature: Tracking comment
 |color=red
 |icon=<span style="font-size: 250%;">⚠</span>
 |message=Adblock Plus is ineffective for surveillance protection by default as it comes with ''Acceptable Ads'' enabled: These ads are not meant to be "ads that don't track you".
}}
|Antifeature_tags={{Project antifeature
|Antifeature=Adware
}}
{{Project antifeature
|Antifeature=Tracking
}}
}}

Data

See also https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Backlog#Import

Debian Packaging System

Disclaimer: The Debian Package Tracking System provides no software description needed for |Short description= and |Full description= in the entry pages.

The Debian Package Tracking System produces RDF metadata and is already included in DBpedia. For example:

• RDF representation of the GIMP package: https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gimp.rdf
• Terse RDF Triple Language (Turtle) representation of the GIMP package: https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gimp.ttl

External links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_query_language
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

Repology

Import

"Repology monitors a huge number of package repositories and other sources comparing packages versions across them and gathering other information. Repology shows you in which repositories a given project is packaged, which version is the latest and which needs updating, who maintains the package, and other related information."

Export unique FSD entries

New repository: Free Software Directory

Data model

Wikibase

I propose Wikibase: wikidata.org uses Wikibase -- It goes _much_ faster wikidata.org than directory.fsf.org. (david hedlund)

Wikibase is a triplestore implementation. "Technical support: the data model should allow for adequate representations in existing data formats, e.g., JSON or RDF/OWL" - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplestore
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel

my evaluation: Iank (talk) 10:40, 18 July 2018 (EDT)

Upsides:

It would give an api to update data. With semantic mediawiki, you have to update entire pages. This would allow better syncing from sources like mozilla and debian.

We could also use it to pull in data from wikidata, but that could also be done without adopting wikibase for our own data.

Downsides: wikipedia's use of it seems to be mostly around linking between languages, and a very small use of the actual data, and where it is used, it's not user friendly, the data magically appears from a template that that has a wikidata reference number and there is no easy way for users to navigate to that data to edit it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata

At this point it does not seem high priority to adopt it, but it's got potential if wikipedia creates a better user interface for it.

Page structure

#####################################################################
Import and export data

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/<entry>
|
|--<entry>-debian.wiki -- generated by https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/directory
|		* This is a Debian package: Yes
|		* Package name
|		* Version
|		* Release date
|		* Dependencies (depends, recommends, suggests, enhances)
|--<entry>-user.wiki -- user contributions on https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/
		* Download link
		* OpenPGP signature URL
		* Donate
		* VCS Checkout
		* Categories
		* IRC channel
		* Etc

Example:

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Emacs
|
|--Emacs-debian.wiki
|		* This is a Debian package: Yes
|		* Package name: Emacs
|		* Version: 26.1
|		* Release date: 28 May 2018
|		* Dependencies: <will be listed here>
|--Emacs-user.wiki
		* Download link: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/
		* VCS Checkout: git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
		* IRC channel: irc.freenode.net/emacs


#####################################################################
Form edit

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Emacs&action=formedit&debug=true

if debian package == yes
	Package name: Readonly
	Version: Readonly
	Release date: Readonly
	Dependencies: Readonly
	Download link: Write
	VCS Checkout: Write
	IRC channel: Write
else
	Package name: Write
	Version: Write
	Release date: Write
	Dependencies: Write
	Download link: Write
	VCS Checkout: Write
	IRC channel: Write

Issues

Resource links

Bendikker has added hundreds (if not thousands) of resource links to various entries. I think we should import them if possible. Here's what he added to Emacs for example

• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/User_talk:Bendikker#Standard_links_I_add_for_GNU_packages
• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/User_talk:Bendikker#Standard_links_I_add
• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/User_talk:Bendikker#Standard_reference_links_I_add

{{Resource
|Resource audience=Python (Ref)
|Resource URL=https://pypi.org/project/emacs
}}
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Debian (Ref) (R)
|Resource URL=https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs23
}}
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Debian (Ref) (R)
|Resource URL=https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs24
}}
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Debian (Ref) (R)
|Resource URL=https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs25
}}
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Debian (Ref)
|Resource URL=https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs
}}
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Savannah (Ref)
|Resource URL=https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs
}}
{{Resource
|Resource kind=VCS Repository Webview
|Resource URL=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
}}
{{Resource
|Resource kind=Mailing List
|Resource URL=https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
}}
{{Resource
|Resource kind=Mailing List
|Resource URL=https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs
}}
{{Resource
|Resource kind=Mailing List
|Resource URL=https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
}}
{{Resource
|Resource kind=Mailing List
|Resource URL=https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
}}
{{Resource
|Resource kind=Download
|Resource URL=https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs
}}