[Mediawiki-l] Any leads on a basic wiki setup-and-configure instruction manual?

[Rob Church]

On 11/04/07, Dave Sigafoos <davesigafoos at sanmar.com> wrote:
> Programmers who do not, can not or will not document haven't earned
> their chops.  If someone is coding a system to track their groceries at
> home and they don't want to document then fine.  Any time someone is
> working on any system, open-source, closed-source, free-ware or
> charge-ware, documentation is part of the job.

(sigh)

MediaWiki is a volunteer effort, and while we can complain about the
quality of the people we get - and if you ask any of the junior
committers, they will assert that I do so all the time - for the most
part, you usually get something positive. We are, of course, in no
position to reject useful contributions, even if they are not
documented properly.

While a good developer recognises that documenting his or her code is
to everyone's benefit, we don't just have good developers; we also
have people who apparently don't write a lot of code at all, or are
not experienced enough to appreciate many things that can be taken for
granted in a more professional context, and we have to work with them.


Rob Church