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

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Don't forget there is also the chat channel. Allot of my questions were 
answer by asking on #mediawiki at irc.freenode.net. Go check there out. :)


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Andrew Mole wrote:

>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
>
>
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