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I have a lifetime of tech experience but I am a newb with MediaWiki.

I have started a project which you can find here

http://www.ravepreservationproject.com/

I installed MediaWiki which was a piece of cake but I am having difficulties figuring out how to start the configuring it to fit my needs.

I believe what I need is pretty straight forward. If you can help please respond.

I would like a home page with several categories that a user can click to view or search. (If I have the terminology wrong please correct me. Ex: Do I need groups, categories, something else?)

The top level categories are

artist dj promoter party event venue and/or location set recorders lighting visuals

Once I have these categories set up I would like to add the ability for users to comment on a page in each category as well as edit or create their own pages in each category.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Matthew

I realize this may have already been covered in the past but I searched through support posts and did not find what I was looking for.

Categories are your best shot, I think, but you may also want to look at Semantic MediaWiki and check out the SMW Community.

Great thank you Mark.

Another question I have, I know this will be nothing to most of you, but how do I add categories from the admin account?

Cheers

There isn't anything to add from the admin account. Once you specify a category in the wikitext of a page, it is created.

Hi Mark,

I finally decided to tackle this project. I found a very simple solution. I edited the Sidebar to fit my needs. I spent the day messing with this today and was able to get pretty close to something that will suit my needs. You can see what I have done here

http://www.ravepreservationproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Thank you for your emails.