Systems selections

Factors affecting database systems selections

• Copyleft 'free to modify' and 'free in cost' software is strongly preferred over other solutions.
• Minimal modifications required could be another preference as that means maintenance of the chosen solution is minimized in that aspect.

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Encodings

• w:BASE10 and w:BASE64. 10 and 64 possible combinations per character respectively.
• w:UTF-8 encoded w:Unicode for text

Languages

Programming languages

Currently used languages

• w:PHP (5)
• w:Ruby (programming language)
• w:Python (programming language)

Considered languages / languages of interest

Databases

Current databases

Main article: Database

Currently using all major free software RDBMS:

• w:MariaDB
• w:MySQL
• w:PostgreSQL

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.

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Frameworks

Frameworks

• Semantic MediaWiki

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Software

Main article: Software

Current software

• MediaWiki
• diaspora*
• Hubzilla
• Friendica
• GNU social
• GNU MediaGoblin

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APIs

APIs to communicate with:

• Free social media ones

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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 Semantic MediaWikis
• DBpedia
• Wikidata

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Media sources

Copyleft:

• w:Wikimedia Commons
• Consumerium Commons
• Upcoming federated w:GNU MediaGoblin