I see why Fred suggested Google as a better MediaWiki/WikiMedia/Wikipedia search master, perhaps more so than MediaWiki/WikiMedia/Wikipedia searching within itself. I'm getting the feeling that MediaWiki is w-a-y less mature or sophisticated than it's notoriety and popularity suggests.
Actually my suggestion is if you have a question which involves say, wgSpamBlacklistSettings that before you come to the list, you can probably see some discussion, and the parts of MediaWiki it is included in, by googling for it. That will allow you to try to figure things out on your own. If you have the usual questions, someone has asked them before.
As to sophistication, there are types of sophistication, I doubt most the MediaWiki crew would get far in the Federal bureaucracy, but there you go. This list seems to be heavy sledding for you, but I'm sure you're a pretty sophisticated guy, just not experienced in every conceivable aspect of life.
Fred
Fred Bauder wrote:
before you come to the list, you can probably see some discussion, and the parts of MediaWiki it is included in, by googling for it. that will allow you to try to figure things out on your own.
And don't forget to look at the _Discussion_ page for any Mediawiki page on, say, an extension. Users of the stuff will often post problem and solution hints and advice on those pages. They also sometimes provide a more detailed explanation of the documentation (which, hopefully, someone will eventually migrate to the topic page).
Mike
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