[LEDE-DEV] Documentation for router support means the famous Table of Hardware

[Paul Oranje]

l.s.

For a heritage wiki that I helped set-up a few years ago (www.culturalheritageconnections.org) a combination of structured data and “normal” unstructured information was used.

This set-up deploys semantic extensions to mediawiki where the structured data is captured in semantic properties and edited by means of semantic forms that ensure that certain information is automatically assigned to the semantic properties. Most if not all structured data is shown on the pages in so-called info boxes (like in wilipedia), and the information can be searched by properties, by category (really also a property) and also semantic query forms. An initial set of such pages can be generated from data contained in an SQL database.

In short: a wiki that combines structured data with more or less unstructured information is very well possible and the existing dataset can be used as a start where all structured data is converted into semantic properties.

Regards,
-- 
Paul Oranje


> Op 14 sep. 2016, om 00:57 heeft Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi Tarek,
> 
> Thomas Endt and others invested a lot of time to implement a structured
> table of hardware in the OpenWrt wiki, which means that a lot of detail
> information is accessible in a SQLite3 database file which should make
> it easy to generate hardware documentation pages with a little script
> and a few self-join queries.
> 
> I also think that such a model would be a viable option for the future:
> have a structured data entry dialog in the wiki which fills a database,
> have all the surrounding wiki capabilities for free text information and
> use the resulting database backend data to provide other, non-wiki
> services like a vendor/model search to to download link redirection.
> 
> 
> Imho a well maintained hardware database is a very important topic for
> LEDE, OpenWrt and other associated projects but we need to find a sane
> middle ground that does not upset too many potential contributors but
> still yields a reasonable data quality...
> 
> On a related note I wonder if anyone ever thought about joining forces
> with WikiDevi? It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do but I
> recall that the site operators are rather hard to contact.
> 
> 
> Just my two cents :)
> 
> Regards,
> Jo
> 
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