".. Life's like that - programmers write code, they don't write
documentation.."
Programmers who do not, can not or will not document haven't earned
their chops. If someone is coding a system to track their groceries at
home and they don't want to document then fine. Any time someone is
working on any system, open-source, closed-source, free-ware or
charge-ware, documentation is part of the job.
DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Daly
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 15:04
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any leads on a basic wiki setup-and-configure
instruction manual?
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
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