Re: [directory-discuss] Unable to list all software packages published in the Free Software Directory

[Ian Kelling]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 07:24 AM, Jonas Gamalielsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a Swedish researcher focusing on open source and open standards. 
> The FSF directory of open source projects is a very interesting source 
> of information that we would like to use in our research.
> 
> When trying to list all the open source projects on 
> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/All, we can not get past entry 5500 (the 
> last project that we can access is "Gnome-mag"). It would be expected 
> that all (15899) projects can be listed? Does anybody know if there is 
> some problem with the database or API used? I would really appreciate to 
> get access to the complete list of all projects in the directory for 
> research purposes.


The semantic mediawiki plugin that fsd is using has some bugs in
it. There are a bunch of ways you can work around this if you learn the
ins and outs of mediawiki. You may be able to just reform the query to
start at a different place,
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries

Another quick mostly correct list can be gotten from here:
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special:AllPages It will have a few
unapproved pages, and pages like All, which don't count.