From: Christophe Poncy <christophe@poncy.fr>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org,
directory-discuss@gnu.org, guix-devel@gnu.org,
wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Wikidata, Guix and the Free Software DIrectory [was: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:46:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <126a1171-bf5a-3c34-92ad-795224d3a637@poncy.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.61.1610038809.29794.emacs-devel@gnu.org>
On 1/7/21 2:49 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> I see two ways we could possibly manage to use repology.org in the
> Free World.
>
> * Find a way to distinguish free from nonfree packages. I see two
> ideas One is to snarf the lists of free packages from Debian and
> Parabola. Another is to see if free packages list a license that
> shows they are free. You might have other ideas.
>
Repology data can easily be found on Wikidata [1] but I wonder if
Repology can locate and merge their entries on Wikidata or if it was
done manually.
>
> Does anyone have another idea?
Repology is a software directory but we already have such tool with the
Free Software Directory! [1][2]
Wikidata can natively distinguish free from nonfree packages. So one way
is to add all Guix variable names into Wikidata [3] and find a way to
link the Wikidata properties with the FSD entries…
Then Emacs can use the Mediawiki API to query the fetched data.
Christophe
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6931
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2537
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6765
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