[Mediawiki-l] Confusion over forums and posting to list

[Andrew Mole]

First of all, I would like to give a big thank you to everyone who has put time
into making WikiMedia work - I am impressed by how much has been achieved.

I would like however to ask if it would be possible to make it easier to find
relevant forums for asking questions. Some background - my interest is in
running a mediawiki installation - and I have been having a some problems. I
therefore started to look for forums to see if others had had similar problems,
but had difficulty finding where to go. 

I tried looking on the mediawiki site, since that seemed most appropriate, and
while the link to meta.wikimedia FAQ is helpful, I couldn't find forums. At some
point I came across listinfo - http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo, but I
couldn't work out which was the correct forum - I didn't want to bore people
working on the guts of mediawiki with my installation problems :-) - and having
chosen one (mediawiki-l), I then had to work out how to view it (which I failed
to achieve!).

I did however find a way of posting a question, but for some reason it did not
carry with it the fact that I had subscribed (I am not sure that this one will,
either!), and it therefore had to be reviewed and forwarded (which Brion kindly
did). It was then posted to a different forum from the one I was expecting (I
had in the meantime discovered gmane), so I wasn't aware that Brion (again,
thank you) had already posted the answer that I needed.

Since I am still trying to work out some of the details of my installation I am
now posting to this group (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki),
and I would like to know whether it is the right one for these questions. If it
is, then I will put in a link on the mediawiki website to that effect (provided
no-one objects). In addition it would be great if the "mail.wikipedia.org
Mailing Lists" also made it clear where people with questions about installation
should go (and maybe other categories as well).

Incidentally - the gmane interface to the list looks as though it ought to be
great, but I find that, in addition to me finding it difficult to find the
relevant forums, it does not appear to do searches very well. Is that others'
experience as well, or am I just doing something wrong?

Regards,

Andrew