From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:00:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87in1gsv06.fsf@nckx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIESm-0003mu-5G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:00:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIESU-0005yR-Fv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:00:35 -0400 Received: from tobias.gr ([2001:470:7405::1]:52294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIESP-0005o4-Qr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:00:28 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: swedebugia Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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,=20 think it's a worthwile idea to explore and discuss! > Guix would then be the first package manager to both be=20 > completely > free of proprietary software and to leverage knowledge from=20 > Wikidata > and WP. Something to seriously consider here are the FSDG. Where do we=20 draw the line between =E2=80=98external content=E2=80=99 (as we presumably = treat=20 home pages, which currently contain everything from proprietary=20 software recommendations to #TeamWhite race war progaganda) and=20 Guix when such WD/WP data is presented inside our UI? The FSD[0] comes to mind. Coincidentally, a new mail was just=20 posted to the directory-discuss list about Wikidata. It should be=20 enlightening to read the responses, if any. I also assume that we'll be keeping our current set of=20 metadata. The requirement for a full-blown Internet connection=20 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]:=20 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2018-11/msg00000.html