Maybe you could label a special thread with [DISCUSS] on such topic?;-)
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
