Re: [directory-discuss] Fw: Free Software Directory Database

[Laura Morales]

Hello Felipe, thanks for the reply. At least there is somebody in the directory 
who cares... because it feels like the FSF Directory is being let "rotting on 
the vine"...

Anyway, I'm not asking for any change to the directory source code, and I don't 
think any patch is required. All I'm asking is that some admin please setup a 
periodic dump in RDF format of the directory data. This should be as easy as 
configuring a cron job to run the dumpRDF.php script every once in a while, as 
described here 
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RDF_export#Exporting_all_data
Looking at "directory.tar.gz", I've found this file in the archive: 
./extensions/fsf-cleaned-extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/maintenance/SMW_dumpRDF.php
 I think this is probably the script that needs to be run.

Is there anybody with access to the Mediawiki instance who can try this?

Best regards.



> Hi Mx. Morales! :)
> 
> I'm not an administrator, but I do contribute to evaluating entries in
the Free Software Directory.
> 
> Browsing the directory pages, I see link to "Source Code" in the bottom,
> and following it I see the "CURRENT" directory, which has
> "directory.tar.gz" file inside. I suppose this is the complete
> corresponding source of the directory, so you can probably send patches
> against this file --- extract it twice, one for the original and one for
> the changes, do changes, and use GNU diff with the unified output format
> (`-u' option) to produce a patch similar to the ones accepted by `git
> format-patch'. You could also use `git format-patch' directly, but I
> don't know if this works.