On 17 Oct 2004, at 09:29, Shanti Braford wrote:
I'm willing to pay someone $150 for them to modify the default MediaWiki to something very simple. Trust me, I'm looking for a very basic site look.
...which rather begs the question: why MediaWiki specifically? While I'm enough of a fan to use it for a collaborative project myself, I hope Brion et al will not be offended if I describe it as... er... 'large and complex.' It's big enough to be overkill for most projects, including mine, and I've expended considerable effort turning bits off and hiding others in an attempt to avoid scaring off my users. It's still not as simple as I'd like.
If simplicity of look and use were more important - and in your case it sounds like they are - I'd be more tempted to look at packages like Instiki: http://www.instiki.org/show/HomePage ...or maybe Wikka: http://wikka.jsnx.com/HomePage ...or the similar Wakko: http://wackowiki.com/WackoDownload/InEnglish (at least the last of these integrates a simple editor markup helper)
There are, of course, rather a lot of options: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines ...of which this is a something like an 'edited highlights' list: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopTenWikiEngines