Monahon, Peter B.:
Peter Blaise responds: Thanks, Gary, I'm not sure what you mean,
though. "... include the Wikipedia: namespace in the search..." by
doing what?
If you're going to set up a MediaWiki site, then the first thing you
have to do is get familiar with using MediaWiki. Otherwise you're just
going to waste a lot of time (yours and others'). One way you can do
this is to get used to using Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, if you click the
button marked "Search", it will take you to a page that explains all
about searching -- including how to search specific namespaces.
I searched inside MediaWiki/WikiMedia/Wikipedia and
found
nothing inside them.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Looking in there for detailed support
information for a specific software package won't do you much good.
Wikimedia is a foundation which supports the growth, development and
distribution of free, multilingual content. They aren't specifically
concerned with supporting software.
The one place for MediaWiki info is (theoretically)
http://www.mediawiki.org/; for historical reasons, there is still a lot
of MediaWiki info on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/, which is in the process
of being moved to
mediawiki.org.
And yes, all of this is documented:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Names
Who are the select few here who are not volunteers,
who have to
help me, presumably for pay?
I think the point that people are trying to make is that *no-one* here
*has* to help you, for pay or otherwise. MediaWiki is not a commercial
software package, with commercial support; it's software that's offered
to the public as a gift. You didn't pay for it, and you don't have to
use it if you don't want to. If you want people to just sacrifice their
time to help you, then at least be nice. But if you want paid support,
and you have the money to pay someone's salary, maybe someone would be
willing to help. (I'm too busy, even if you could afford me... ;-)
How do you create an admin or sysops after the
Wiki's built?
Have the person create a user ID, then edit the user's privileges in
Special:Userrights.
Ian