Any other wiki or cms software out there will require very similar things, Apache, MySQL, PHP, IIS, etc...
At the end of the day MediaWiki was and is designed to run Wikipedia; it's there for other people to use but you need to accept the documentation that's there and either learn the rest or not use it. Because of you lack of familiarity with the related technologies I would suggest finding something else, probably Microsoft software.
Arthur Guy
arthur@assys.net -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Monahon, Peter B. Sent: 30 May 2007 12:28 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any leads on a basic wiki setup-and-configure instruction manual?
MediaWiki wise, I have the additional challenge of selling MediaWiki (versus Peter Thoeny's TWiki, or about 60 other Wikis, versus CMS Content Management Systems, versus Microsoft Share Point, and other non-Wikis) to my "group". Open source is scary since there is seldom an 800 number or warranty that comes with the product (though us techies know that 800 numbers and warranties with no one who is smart at the other end is mere marketing chutzpah - but it makes the sale!).
MediaWiki is further compromised by depending on 3 or 4 *other* open source products being "properly" installed and working, first. Having reliable, dependable documentation of other people's success with MediaWiki and the other supporting open source programs would go a long way towards encouraging MediaWiki's success in my arena.
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