Systems selections: Difference between revisions

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This article is for choosing good systems (technical) for The Consumerium Effort - Enhancing Consumer Informedness

Factors affecting systems selections

Copyleft 'free to modify' and 'free of cost' software is strongly preferred over other solutions.
Minimal modifications made (MMM) is an preference as well. This will ensure that we don't get swamped down on patching ad-hoccy, unstandard aged solutions to keep 'em working with the new stuff.

Encodings

Integers w:BASE10 for integers, size depends on available solutions. Escape integer ceiling by bluntly encoding the integer as string of BASE-10 chars, dirty hack but could do the trick.
Condense URL encoding w:BASE64 and 64 possible characters, exactly 6 bits from w:ISO/IEC 646 (hard compatible with 7-bit ASCII)
w:UTF-8 encoded w:Unicode for text. UTF-8 is efficient and allows 2^32 different characters.. unless escaped to 40-bit in future revision

Copyright and copyleft protections system selections

Copyleft licensing for content, code and Consumerium Commons media repository
Automatic plagiarism testing which usually probably also translates to copyvio
Disqualify and rapidly remove all copyvio
Discourage piratism. Piratism on copyleft much stronger than on copyright.

Languages

Programming languages

Currently used languages

Considered languages / languages of interest

Databases

Current databases

Main article: Databases

Currently using all major free software RDBMS:

Considered databases

Graph databases and Subject-predicate-object databases seem to perform the same thing just with different architecture and suitability for certain searches. See Talk:Databases for more on this.

Candidates for testing

All copyleft licensed triplestore and more advanced i.e. graph

Frameworks

Frameworks for glueing into various systems

Semantic MediaWiki compatibilities: PHP, Semantic Forms, enter data in wiki code -> RDF <-> Graph -> Outputs wikirenders and public SPARQL endpoints

Software

Current software

Server software

Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux
Hypervisors (by hosting guys) Xen and KVM
Webservers: Nginx and Apache

MediaWiki (PHP, MariaDB and more)
w:diaspora (software) (Ruby on Rails ,Ruby, MariaDB, Node.js and more) - role: consumer protection oriented free social media since 2010
w:Draft:Hubzilla (PHP, MariaDB) - Excellent channel-based distributed free social media where subscription is to the whole network allowing nomadic and double citizenship. A model the others should follow suit.
w:Friendica (PHP, MariaDB, fully contained in database w/ images stored as blobs. The least learning curve free social media for facebook refugees. Initiated by the same guy as Hubzilla.
w:GNU social MariaDB - Microblogging platform
w:GNU MediaGoblin (Python2 (Installing Python3 was impossible last time I looked at it, theoretically compatible with Py3 but broken because outside code supplier.) and PostgreSQL) Role: Copyleft code, content and codecs based media repository.

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APIs

APIs to communicate with:

Free social media ones

Data sources

Data sources: own

Semantic MediaWiki well thought out and set up on implementation wiki (c.consumerium.org)
Development Wiki - User database, userspace sharing or importing and Unified Login are being looked at as options.

Data sources: Semantic web

Other copyleft Semantic MediaWikis

DBpedia Public SPARQL endpoint of DBpedia.org and Projects and efforts using DBpedia are very relevant.
Wikidata Public SPARQL endpoint of Wikidata.org (Wikidata Query Service)

Lists of Sparql endpoints

https://www.w3.org/wiki/SparqlEndpoints

Media sources

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 === Current software ===
-* System: [[Debian]] [[GNU]]/[[Linux]]
+'''Server software'''
-* Hypervisors (by hosting guys) Xen and KVM
-* Webservers: Nginx and Apache
-* [[MediaWiki]] ([[PHP]], [[MariaDB]] and more)
+* [[w:Operating system|Operating system]]: [[w:Debian|Debian]] [[w:GNU/Linux|GNU/Linux]]
-* [[w:diaspora (software)]]  ([[Ruby on rails]] ,[[Ruby]], MariaDB, Node.JS and more) - role: [[consumer protection]] oriented [[free social media]] since 2010
+* [[w:Hypervisor|Hypervisor]]s (by hosting guys) [[w:Xen|Xen]] and [[w:Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]]
+* Webservers: [[w:Nginx|Nginx]] and [[w:Apache HTTP Server|Apache]]
+* [[MediaWiki]] ([[w:PHP|PHP]], [[w:MariaDB|MariaDB]] and more)
+* [[w:diaspora (software)]]  ([[w:Ruby on Rails|Ruby on Rails]] ,[[w:Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], MariaDB, [[w:Node.js|Node.js]] and more) - role: [[consumer protection]] oriented [[free social media]] since 2010
 * [[w:Draft:Hubzilla]] (PHP, MariaDB) - Excellent channel-based distributed free social media where subscription is to the whole network allowing nomadic and double citizenship. A model the others should follow suit.
 * [[w:Friendica]] (PHP, MariaDB, fully contained in database w/ images stored as blobs. The least learning curve free social media for [[facebook refugees]]. Initiated by the same guy as Hubzilla.
-* [[w:GNU social]] MariaDB - [[Microblogging]] platform
+* [[w:GNU social]] MariaDB - [[w:Microblogging|Microblogging]] platform
-* [[w:GNU MediaGoblin]] (Python2 (Installing Python3 was impossible last time I looked at it, theoretically compatible with Py3 but broken because outside code supplier.) and [[PostgreSQL]]) Role: [[Copyleft]] [[code]], [[content]] and [[codecs]] based media repository.
+* [[w:GNU MediaGoblin]] (Python2 (Installing Python3 was impossible last time I looked at it, theoretically compatible with Py3 but broken because outside code supplier.) and [[w:PostgreSQL|PostgreSQL]]) Role: [[Copyleft]] [[code]], [[content]] and [[codecs]] based media repository.
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