Hello, all.

My name is Craig Hartel, and I am new to MediaWiki and relatively new to wikis in general. I am one of two people responsible for building reference documentation for WordPress (http://wordpress.org) which is an open-source blogging tool.

We are currently in the process of building our wiki by harvesting from our old wiki (phpWiki I believe) and by twisting arms of community members to write documentation for us.

I am already very impressed with MediaWiki, and am excited by all of the possibilities of how it can be used. I am a bit overwhelmed right now with trying to set up some guidelines for how we want the wiki to work, and with issues of creating templates and related wiki assets.

Although I am comfortable with CSS, I am also trying to come up with some site-specific customizations.

If any of you might have some links to to help me and my team to get started, it would be very much appreciated. I have been poking around quite a bit in the MetaWiki, so I'm armed with enough knowledge to really make a mess! ;)

Our wiki is not officially online, but if you would like to have a peek at it, you can find it at http://codex.wordpress.org/ . We are currently working to decide how to best use namespaces, as we wish to maximize searchability and minimize sub-pages.

Any advice you may have would be great.

Thanks for putting together a great piece of software and I look forward to participating in the MediaWiki community.

Craig Hartel a.k.a. "Nuclear Moose"