Jentzen Mooney wrote:
Also I was wondering if I create a new wiki from 1.14 do you recommend setting up the SVN repository if I plan to upgrade in the coming months or years?
I don't use SVN for upgrades, just for supporting an extension I wrote. When upgrading, I just download the zipped files from mediawiki.org and install manually - that's what I'm comfortable with and it works just fine even if it takes a few minutes longer than some automated process. Perhaps someone else can give another view on SVN's suitability.
Do you have any wiki resources I should check out, so I can become a better admin for wikimedia?
Mediawiki.org is pretty good if a bit difficult to find your way around. Some information is well organized (most of the Manual and the extensions) while some is kind of disorganized.
Mwusers.com is a forum that is not bad - but I have a conflict of interest in recommending it, since I'm one of the moderators there. It's fine for most of the basic and mid-difficulty stuff but not so great on the most esoteric wiki info - there aren't enough volunteers offering help to provide a really broad base of knowledge.
Wikipedia can contain a lot of useful info from the wiki user's point of view - how to use the wikitext features for example. A lot of wiki beginners have trouble with wikitext while this is very well explained and documented on Wikipedia's help pages.
Mike