Editing Systems selections

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.
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== 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 '''
* [[w:PHP]] (5) 
* [[w:Ruby (programming language)]]
* [[w:Python (programming language)]]

'''Considered languages / languages of interest'''

== Databases ==

=== Current databases ===
'''Main article: [[Databases]]'''

Currently using all major free software RDBMS: 
* [[w:MariaDB]]
* [[w:MySQL]]
* [[w:PostgreSQL]]

'''Considered databases'''
* [[Databases#Graph databases|Graph databases]] and [[Database#Subject-predicate-object databases|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
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== 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

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== Software ==

=== Current software ===

'''Server software'''

* [[w:Operating system|Operating system]]: [[w:Debian|Debian]] [[w:GNU/Linux|GNU/Linux]]
* [[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 - [[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 [[w:PostgreSQL|PostgreSQL]]) Role: [[Copyleft]] [[code]], [[content]] and [[codecs]] based media repository.
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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 copyleft Semantic MediaWikis 
** [http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Special:BrowseData/Sites Semantic MediaWiki Community wiki list of SMW sites]
** [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Semantic_statistics Wikiapiary list of SMW sites]
** [http://wikiindex.org/Category:Semantic_MediaWiki Wikiindex.org category of SMWs]

* '''[[DBpedia]]''' [http://dbpedia.org/sparql Public SPARQL endpoint of DBpedia.org] and [http://wiki.dbpedia.org/projects Projects and efforts using DBpedia] are very relevant. 
* '''[[Wikidata]]''' [https://query.wikidata.org/ Public SPARQL endpoint of Wikidata.org (Wikidata Query Service)]

''' Commercial data sources '''
* [https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distance-matrix/overview 'Google Maps Platform ->  Web Services -> Distance Matrix API' at developers.google.com]

'''Lists of Sparql endpoints'''
* https://www.w3.org/wiki/SparqlEndpoints

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== Media sources ==

'''[[Copyleft]]:'''

* [[w:Wikimedia Commons]]
* [[Consumerium Commons]]
* Upcoming federated [[w:GNU MediaGoblin]]