Hi all, For the last couple of weeks I had time to add new devices to our data repository. In this pursuit, I was disappointed to see that the very same "organized" data exists in multiple locations on the web (some proprietary, some public accessible). One such candidate that took my attention particularly is Wikipedia. It provides really decent and up-to-date information for various devices. (See Category:Android_(operating_system)_devices <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Android_(operating_system)_devices>.) As far as I am concerned, no individual group can keep up with the speed of masses, where Wikipedia is a common representative example of this claim. So I want to startle a discussion for the following scheme.
1. Organize existing data on Wikipedia to form a certain structured device tree anthology. For this purpose we can employ particular section names (custom wiki syntax?) to represent parent/child relationship. 2. Move all existing device data to Wikipedia in a certain structured form. 3. Write a crawler/script to translate data into DDR format. 4. Expose daily DDR snapshots. I believe, by following such a scheme, we can just focus on the structural organization issues and client development, and take advantage of the community for the improvement of the repository. Getting in touch with Wikimedia Foundation to create a separate Wikimedia project for this initiative is also an alternative and aligned approach. Long story short, DDR is increasing as it has never been in the past. And I anticipate this trend to exponentially climb up in the future. Particularly, more and more players are joining to the market with the availability of custom mobile devices on top of cutting-edge silicon hardware, e.g., OnePlus <https://oneplus.net/>. Hence, crowd sourcing such an effort will bring us a huge benefit and relief. Comments? Best.
