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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:00:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in1gsv06.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0541da7-0cf2-6921-c018-ba391ed2362c@riseup.net>

Hullo swedebugia,

swedebugia wrote:
> I am a contributor to OSM and have seen how combining OSM and
> Wikidata/Wikipedia (WP) has been very useful.

I'm not too familiar with Wikidata but, like Pjotr and Amirouche, 
think it's a worthwile idea to explore and discuss!

> Guix would then be the first package manager to both be 
> completely
> free of proprietary software and to leverage knowledge from 
> Wikidata
> and WP.

Something to seriously consider here are the FSDG. Where do we 
draw the line between ‘external content’ (as we presumably treat 
home pages, which currently contain everything from proprietary 
software recommendations to #TeamWhite race war progaganda) and 
Guix when such WD/WP data is presented inside our UI?

The FSD[0] comes to mind. Coincidentally, a new mail was just 
posted to the directory-discuss list about Wikidata. It should be 
enlightening to read the responses, if any.

I also assume that we'll be keeping our current set of 
metadata. The requirement for a full-blown Internet connection 
just to explore (not install) packages would be a regression.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:About
[1]: 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2018-11/msg00000.html

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-01 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-01  9:44 [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes swedebugia
2018-11-01 10:21 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-11-01 22:33   ` swedebugia
2018-11-02  7:24     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-11-02 11:37       ` swedebugia
2018-11-02 15:37         ` Pjotr Prins
2018-11-01 13:37 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-11-01 23:25   ` swedebugia
2018-11-03  7:53     ` Catonano
2018-11-01 15:00 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]

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