Talk:REAPER

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Ok, this is a call for Reaper (DAW) users to put together some info on Reaper for inclusion on the Reaper Wikipedia page.

here are some ideas for a structure: -

- Brief description paragraph.

- Paragraph about Justin and Cockos (mmaybe get a quote from Justin on what he set out to achieve).

- Severeral paragraphs charting the history of the program (one for each major version update).

- Paragraph containing info on specific 'good bits'

- Paragraph about program size/memory key/portability and compatability.

- paragraph about plugins.

- Paragraph about skin themes.

- Paragraph about the community.

- Paragraph containing some quotes from reveiws.

discuss

Dazzathedrummer (talk) 10:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

hi dazza, i post on the REAPER forums (fora?) as hourglass - thanks for making it over here. i think you're definitely on the right track with this - as it stands, the article is little more thana stub since it just has one section and no lead-in paragraph. i'd suggest looking at other DAW articles for inspiration (and possible a template that could be adopted) - Logic Pro is a B-class article (good, not great), as is Pro-Tools - i also think the layout of Digital Performer is pretty good too. Wikipedia tends to like articles about similar things to follow similar patterns - an example of a featured-article level software article is Mozilla Firefox.

the key point for me here is that we want to expand the article, not just make it longer - so we're looking for good, verifiable, unbiased content. of course, unbiased doesn't mean we can't be positive - REAPER is clearly a good product. we just need to be careful that we are stressing that this is the opinion held by users and reviewers, not by Wikipedia itself. Onesecondglance (talk) 11:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)