[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH Wikipedia Article

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

The problem from their eyes is that its not a 3rd party writing it, its not
even hosted on a 3rd party site.  There are some that misunderstand policy
vs guidelines and what is and what isnt acceptable.  For example the part
about the caveman and all could probably be gleaned from the way back
machine as an authoritative source for 3rd party confirmation that the
webpage did have a caveman cutting wheels saying 'there are a lot of wheels
we might as well use some' they just deleted it because there wasnt a 3rd
party cite.

Also, it has been requested that all FS affiliated people do not post on the
article itself, instead post what you think should be added to the talk
page.

My guess is that it will ultimately be deleted, and that in 2-3 months,
providing there are articles published (not on blogs!) by "reputable"
(computerworld was deemed non-reputable because a mod hadnt heard of them -
sigh) sites that discuss the various aspects, then it can likely be
recreated.  It will get deleted again if its just put back without new cites
- see the YATE history of calltech deleting it because 2 days before it got
deleted (he is the one that deleted it, openser, callweaver all the first
time too).

These articles can be helpful regardless of whether or not it ever makes it
into wikipedia.

The articles should be on:
* performance
          ken is doing what I hope to be a replicatable performance and
benchmarking test suite
          others should do that as well, perhaps following his methodology
to some extent

          the more impartial these tests are, the more open the information
is on the test conditions, the better the results
          be prepared however, because it ALWAYS happens, that someone will
attack the test criteria or methods used, this is actually a good thing
          (if you can weed out the attack from the meaningful reasons why it
happened).  If people point to flaws in the testing, you can incorporate
them
          into new tests, which dont have those flaws and come up with an
even better benchmark.

* features
          need a good write up of what FS can do, what comes with it, maybe
'sound bites' from tony and a few others.  This should be in plain english
          as best as possible.  That way non-techies can understand it
better, which generally makes for a better article anyway.

          I would guess that not more than 20% of the article should be
sound bites, because that tends to slant what is being presented
          independant authors need to write more about their opinions and
support that with facts, rather than just quoting someone for 90% of it

* development philoposy
          FreeSWITCH[tm] is a library, yes it comes with a small exe to load
that and launch the core, but its a lib and can be embedded (key fact
overlooked)
          FreeSWITCH[tm] has an abstraction layer that prevents module
cross-dependancy (I cant find ANYTHING that discusses that)

          Tony you care to chime in on a few more dev philoposy things,
since I am sure there are more

* Other libs that FreeSWITCH[tm] created
          openzap
          teletone
          stfu (if its generic enough to be useful elsewhere - jitterbuffer
lib)
          dingaling
          others?

No single article has to be on, and in some cases its better if they arent
on everything.  They can be 1-2 page shorter writeups that discuss some
aspect and how that interrelates to other things.  From what I listed I see
15 more or less unique articles that can be written which all complement
each other, and when taken as a whole give a much better and bigger picture
of what FreeSWITCH[tm] is and how its helped the open source telephony
community.

If we get articles written and published in many places two things happen,
one it starts to generate a buzz about the project, which can help enlist
others to help write code, documentation, add-on programs, etc, and two it
helps to establish that its a real program with real qualities that while we
can say it, it doesnt seem to be catching hold.  In addition the more unique
sources that we have the better it seems.  If there are only 3 writers that
ever write about something it doesnt seem as persuavasive as if there are
300 :)

Dont underestimate the power of being a freelance writer - many publications
will accept articles and publish them if they are well written, which can
help you get started if you want to be a writer, help get your name out as
an authority on some subject, if you want that.  And at the same time help
what you write about :)


And finally lets not forget that there is a spanish freeswitch, russian and
perhaps other language pages that can be created on wikipedia.  On
es.wikipedia.com, ru.wikipedia.com and perhaps other places FreeSWITCH is
linked in, but there is no page created yet.  So speaking english isnt that
big of a thing.  I did come across some portuguese articles on FS in the
last couple days, from some brazilian paper that did a write up, I however
couldnt understand what was being said, so I dnt know the context.

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