Thanks, Dave, nice reminder that "the job's not finished until the paperwork's done" (toilet humor). Sadly, I find writing, documentation, incredibly difficult, and for at least the first 10 revisions, my writing reads myopic and seems understandable only by me. (Is anyone really surprised?) But, "writing is rewriting," and therein lies the rub. I think much of what documentation I've read so far on MediaWiki and extensions is first-draft stuff. C'mon, people, in a Wiki world, aren't we accelerating to the 10th revision toute suite? I guess not! I'm also reading Microsoft's offering on technical help documentation: "Microsoft Manual of Style" Book $$: <<http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6074.aspx>> or http://tinyurl.com/3yrbnj <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Manual_of_Style_for_Technical_P ublications>> or http://tinyurl.com/38ryfu Download free: <<http://www.vanossy.de/download.php?id=1090295,49,1&PHPSESSID=61c8e22f7 ce7e849eba2c97094839338>> or http://tinyurl.com/kqjmj See also their HTML help authoring system - free: <<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlh elp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp>> or http://tinyurl.com/3nznp There's way more at Microsoft, much of it free. IBM used to publish something like this for PC user software submissions (when we used 5 1/4" floppies, and Microsoft was the "little guy"!). I went to 3-day RoboHelp training $$$ but it was all about operating the software, not generating accurate and comprehendible content! I find the hardest part to write succinctly and unambiguously is digging to find the specific "...by doing what..." part of the report. And then testing it. Almost every time I finally get some documentation to accurately represent the behavior of my system, I walk it to another system and invariably it fails there. Argh. Starting over ... So, I know exactly what I'm asking for when I ask if there are "Any leads on a basic wiki setup-and-configure instruction manual?" http://www.packtpub.com/MediaWiki/book "MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide" by Mizanur Rahman ... is excellent, but NOT a troubleshooter's guide nor an exhaustive reference on MediaWiki ownership, which for me means not only a complete inventory of parts needed to build one, but also how to back up and restore and migrate and import and export your precious data all by itself regardless of the replaceable shell components. I presume we're still on our own to synthesize all that from various other MySQL and PHP references along with whatever MediaWiki and extensions documentation we can scrounge up on our own. Now if I can just get Google on fire with this idea. I LOVE to subcontract my work (oh, sorry, was that yelling?). - Peter Blaise