[asterisk-users] what happened to asterisk wiki???

[Stephen Bosch]

Steve Totaro wrote:
> I think Digium should host a wiki (keeping if vendor neutral of course).

It escapes me why they haven't done this sooner. It would only help them
sell product.

> This seems to be the most complete backup of voip-info.org but it is
> fairly old http://web.archive.org/web/20051013074214/voip-info.org/wiki/
> unless someone else spidered it more completely and recently. 

What about the Google caches that you pointed out? Getting the
information would be tedious, but not impossible; we just have to act
quickly.

Our business doesn't have any spare servers available, and we're short
colo space anyway; I don't know where we'd put the thing if we did.

I would like to help, though -- we operate a Mediawiki for our internal
documentation, and it's brilliant. Very flexible, makes publishing a
document set quickly very easy.

> Even if VoIP-info comes back online, I think Digium or the Asterisk
> documentation project should spider VoIP-info or at the least, the
> snapshot from above and take over the effort.  

The deafening silence on this matter suggests that it is not coming back.

> When was Paul Mahler's book published?  That was almost an exact cut and
> paste of the wiki ;-)
> 
> It should not be run by someone who can just pull the plug one day.

Hear hear. It was only a matter of time before this happened.

> Heck, with the introduction of version 1.4, start from scratch.  There
> was a lot of junk mixed in with a lot of golden nuggets on Voip-info.

Well, we still need 1.2.x docs, but I'm all for starting from scratch.
There was some seriously ancient info in there, and tiki is so
atrociously arcane it discourages people from making improvements.

-Stephen-