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Hello all,

As you may know we have a weekly conference call each Friday. This week's agenda has several wiki cleanup sub-projects. I wanted to crowdsource this because, as the saying goes, many hands makes the work light. In other words, if everyone can help a little bit then we won't be dumping a lot of work on just a few people.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

If you don't already have a wiki account then please go to http://wiki.freeswitch.org and create one. All wiki users have editing rights and can make changes to wiki content. Don't worry about making mistakes! We can always revert a change. Brian West and I review all wiki edits each day. Standard users can't accidentally delete a page or permanently remove content. You're totally safe to make edits. By the way, when you sign in to the wiki you won't see the ads on the left-hand side of the page and you won't have to scroll down so far to locate the search box.

There are several ways that you can assist with the wiki cleanup. One way is to help users like Diego Viola who are quite literally going page to page looking for spelling errors, grammar, etc. If you see an obvious error please by all means correct it.

Another thing you can do is visit this page and look at the janitorial section:
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2009_10_23

There are several areas where we can clean up and improve the wiki:

*Dead end pages - these are pages that are linked to by other wiki pages but do not themselves have links back to anywhere. At the very least each page should have a link back to some other "see also" kind of content.

*Double redirects - these are redirect pages that point to other redirect pages. These need to be pointed to the ultimate destination page.

*Orphaned pages - orphans are pages that are not linked to by other pages. The only way to access these pages is via a search or if you already know the URL. We need people to review the orphaned pages and add links to them from other pages.

*Wanted pages and categories - these are pages and categories that have links but no content. We need people review them and add content or redirects as appropriate.

*Uncategorized pages - all pages belong to some category and these pages haven't been added to a category yet. Categories are handy because they act as natural indexes. Please review pages that have no categories. If you have an idea for a category that does not yet exist please email me and let me know. We don't want to have too many categories.

The best way to learn wiki markup is to click the edit button on a page and see what wiki markup does. You can change the markup and then click Preview to see what it doesn. Click the cancel link to discard any changes. Play around and learn!

Thank you for your help. Please feel free to ask for assistance with editing the wiki. It is a community resource and the more people who know how to add content, the better off we all are.

Thanks,
Michael