Anonymous Coward wrote:Isn't that what vogonswiki is supposed to be? I wish more people would contribute to that.
Vogons Wiki is mostly a knowledge base it seems (correct me if this is wrong). The museum is write a different idea. I love looking through people's collections, especially when I've got a graphics card I can't identify, etc. I don't expect anyone to actively photo and upload their entire collection with descriptions and the like or more people would be doing it already. amoretro.de is an obvious and awesome example of what we should have more of in my opinion. Now I haven't told brostenen about most of these ideas yet so hopefully this won't be overwhelming 😉 The way I see the museum developing is as follows:
- at the most basic level, users will be able to search a database of parts and click an 'add to my collection' button. This would make it quick and easy for people to build a list. Anyone else use discogs.com?
- on top of this, additions to the database would be crowd sourced so, if something isn't in the DB, you would be able to add it. Changes and additions would be moderated to avoid obvious chaos.
- users would also be able to add photos of devices (or just the box art - don't worry Artex, no one will make you open them) 😉
- comments can be added.
- now here's the killer feature: the 'System Builder'. Users would be able to select a number of devices and combine them to indicate they have built this system. They would then be able to add benchmarking results from certain industry standard apps and compare their system with others of a similar spec it will then be possible to identify the fastest system of a certain generation etc. The info people seem to want to know the most is which graphics card is fastest, which motherboard is fastest, which CPUs are the most stable overclockers, but also which hardware is compatible.
Obviously there are two huge undertakings here: designing the site itself and also populating and managing the database. As far as I can see this would become a full time job at some point and is actually one I would love to do long term. I could host the site in the meantime as I have good bandwidth and a Win2k3 server. Obviously that makes ASP the language of choice but we can work this out.
Any thoughts or ideas on the above?
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