On 25/01/2008, Cindy Livengood cmlivengood@gmail.com wrote:
I'm new to this list and new to the wiki admin stuff. I need to start a wiki for my school. I'm not a programmer, but I will learn anything I a need to learn.
If you already have some sysadmin skills on your chosen platform (Linux/Unix or Windows), MediaWiki is marvellously easy to set up and use.
You will need to be comfortable working at the command line and editing configuration files - it's not a pointy-clicky installation, even though as much as possible is automated.
If you do feel confident at your abilities to do horrible things to your computer and have them work, I recommend MediaWiki wholeheartedly :-)
You don't need to be a programmer - I'm not. (Though Unix sysadmins tend to pick up coding and code reading to some degree.)
- d.