Hi.
As <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50552#c0> explains,
MediaWiki's current README file isn't as strong as it could be. Following
discussion on that bug report, there's now a wiki page that can be used to
freely edit MediaWiki's README: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/README>.
In the past few days, I think significant progress has been made in
cleaning up the README. If anyone has thoughts about what it should or
shouldn't include, please feel free to reply on this mailing list, on the
bug report, or be bold and contribute directly to the wiki page. :-)
MZMcBride