Thanks Mike for the help, I will make sure to post any of my findings here. /Jentzen
Michael Daly wrote: > Jentzen Mooney wrote: > > >> Also I was wondering if I create a new wiki from 1.14 do you recommend >> setting up the SVN repository if I plan to upgrade in the coming months >> or years? >> > > I don't use SVN for upgrades, just for supporting an extension I wrote. > When upgrading, I just download the zipped files from mediawiki.org > and install manually - that's what I'm comfortable with and it works > just fine even if it takes a few minutes longer than some automated > process. Perhaps someone else can give another view on SVN's suitability. > > >> Do you have any wiki resources I should check out, so I can become a >> better admin for wikimedia? >> > > Mediawiki.org is pretty good if a bit difficult to find your way around. > Some information is well organized (most of the Manual and the > extensions) while some is kind of disorganized. > > Mwusers.com is a forum that is not bad - but I have a conflict of > interest in recommending it, since I'm one of the moderators there. > It's fine for most of the basic and mid-difficulty stuff but not so > great on the most esoteric wiki info - there aren't enough volunteers > offering help to provide a really broad base of knowledge. > > Wikipedia can contain a lot of useful info from the wiki user's point of > view - how to use the wikitext features for example. A lot of wiki > beginners have trouble with wikitext while this is very well explained > and documented on Wikipedia's help pages. > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
