Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Building a free/libre platform for reviews

[Aaron Wolf]

On 05/27/2016 07:12 PM, John Sullivan wrote:
> Erik Moeller <eloquence@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> - Are there existing efforts you’re aware of that I should seek out?
> 
> I'm sure you're already aware, but the first thing I thought of was
> wikitravel.org.
> 

John, you should know that Wiki Travel / wikitravel.org, though it still
exists, was forked into an official Wikimedia project:
https://www.wikivoyage.org/

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitravel

>> - Are there things you’d like to review/find reviews for that you’re
>> currently not able to? (For example, I haven’t seen a popular platform
>> for reviewing free/libre software, yet.)
> 
> We'd love to figure out how to build that example into
> directory.fsf.org, or possibly pull in reviews from another site. We've
> experimented in the past with star-based ratings.
> 
> Pulling in free data from another other sources could be interesting.
> Debian's popcon data, for example, could be a useful field to include in
> a template for software review entries.
> 
> As another example of why this project is important -- Amazon disabled
> their tagging system, so users can't tag products anymore. We used to
> use that tagging functionality to make important critical/protest points
> about products (like, "defectivebydesign" because of DRM). I know from
> Amazon sources that our protest tags were used at least once as examples
> in an internal Amazon presentation.
> 
> -john
>