Wikidata Stats shows, that there most items have no individual reference. Only 12.68% have.
]]>I think our PKGBUILDs would be a great source for the newest software version. Also pkgdesc, url, license and depends could be harvested.
This would be, if not an explicit violation of Wikipedia's policies, then at least a violation of their spirit. That information needs a source citation, and citing a third-party build script from a distribution will always be less desirable/acceptable than citing the actual creators. The ease of automatically parsing text files is no excuse for sloppy encyclopedia editing. That's not to say that a wiki database of *nix software isn't a good idea, it's just that the structure and content of that database really shouldn't be determined by downstream distributions.
]]>Besides, Arch's packages (particularly those in core) aren't always the newest available.
]]>do you know Wikidata?
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I think our PKGBUILDs would be a great source for the newest software version. Also pkgdesc, url, license and depends could be harvested. -> The Wikipedia infoboxes could be automatically filled from up-to-date PKGBUILD information.
Would you support this idea?