First of all, I would like to give a big thank you to everyone who has put time into making WikiMedia work - I am impressed by how much has been achieved.
I would like however to ask if it would be possible to make it easier to find relevant forums for asking questions. Some background - my interest is in running a mediawiki installation - and I have been having a some problems. I therefore started to look for forums to see if others had had similar problems, but had difficulty finding where to go.
I tried looking on the mediawiki site, since that seemed most appropriate, and while the link to meta.wikimedia FAQ is helpful, I couldn't find forums. At some point I came across listinfo - http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo, but I couldn't work out which was the correct forum - I didn't want to bore people working on the guts of mediawiki with my installation problems :-) - and having chosen one (mediawiki-l), I then had to work out how to view it (which I failed to achieve!).
I did however find a way of posting a question, but for some reason it did not carry with it the fact that I had subscribed (I am not sure that this one will, either!), and it therefore had to be reviewed and forwarded (which Brion kindly did). It was then posted to a different forum from the one I was expecting (I had in the meantime discovered gmane), so I wasn't aware that Brion (again, thank you) had already posted the answer that I needed.
Since I am still trying to work out some of the details of my installation I am now posting to this group (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki), and I would like to know whether it is the right one for these questions. If it is, then I will put in a link on the mediawiki website to that effect (provided no-one objects). In addition it would be great if the "mail.wikipedia.org Mailing Lists" also made it clear where people with questions about installation should go (and maybe other categories as well).
Incidentally - the gmane interface to the list looks as though it ought to be great, but I find that, in addition to me finding it difficult to find the relevant forums, it does not appear to do searches very well. Is that others' experience as well, or am I just doing something wrong?
Regards,
Andrew