Hi fellow wiki-admins,
We all gotta start someplace ... here's where I'm at now:
I presume there's something painfully simple I'm missing, but I can't
for the life of me find a reference anywhere simply on how to
setup-and-configure a wiki!
For example, all I wanna do is:
1 - Sign in as admin. Is that so hard? How do I sign in as admin?
2 - Make others sign-in as lesser-editors and contributors. I need to
see how hierarchies of user-capabilities work before I go live.
3 - Lock parts of article contents so users can add to them but not
delete the locked part, admins can change anything.
4 - Change/customize a few visual things, like the sidebar.
Now, I'm not askin' you all to answer my detailed questions above
(unless you want to!).
I'm asking if anyone knows of a reference where I can look up these
kinds of (must be) precedented things. Does anyone have any leads on a
BASIC (as in "initial") MediaWiki setup-and-configure instruction
manual?
Thank you so much (conversations so far have been ... interesting - I
can't wait to understand what you're all talking about and see how you
respond here!).
- Peter Blaise Monahon, USPTO/OTPC, 571-272-3950, MDE 4D68, WS01419