[asterisk-users] Asterisk Documentation now on voip-info.org Wiki

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:35:00PM -0400, Josiah Bryan wrote:
> 
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:32:41AM -0400, Josiah Bryan wrote:
> >> Hey All -
> >>
> >> Link to the index page:
> >>
> >>      http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Documentation
> >>
> > Why not link to the SVN instead?
> 
> I considered that as well. My thoughts:
> 
> 1) Ungoogleabelness (if thats a word :-) - since google already ranks 
> voip-info.org high on search for asterisk related content, I thought the 
> docs should be where the users are, not vis-a-versa.
> 
> 2) Formatability - the docs are plain text in subversion, whereas 
> putting the in the wiki offers the possibility for formatting and 
> auto-linking as the algorithm presents itself.

Do you intend to add that formatting in your script? They can't be
changed manually.

> 
> 2) UI similarity - linking to the file on svn, for example:
> 
> http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.6.0/doc/callfiles.txt?view=co
> 
> Brings just the plain text view, whereas putting it in the wiki offers 
> the same UI as the rest of the site.

http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6.0/doc/callfiles.txt

Looks better.

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