Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
It's like teaching someone how to drive a car and explaining the steering wheel like this: "turn the steering wheel by rotating clockwise or anticlockwise". Hello, isn't there something missing in that?
You don't learn to drive by building a car. If you want to learn how a wiki works, use a wiki - don't install and administer a wiki until you have learned that much. There are plenty of wikis out there - Wikipedia has essentially every feature you will find in Mediawiki.
I learned to use a wiki before I installed one. That made life a lot easier.
Believe me, I can understand your frustration with open source software. It is universally poorly documented. It helps to think like a programmer to understand what is documented and sometimes you have to open up the code to make sense of it. Life's like that - programmers write code, they don't write documentation.
However, I cannot accept your attitude, since it sounds like you think someone owes you something. If you want a product that comes with full support, find someone you can pay to get it. Please don't whine to the volunteers, that will be very counterproductive.
Mike