User:David Gerard

I'm en:user:David Gerard. I'm here to help with the documentation, mostly so I can use it myself better. If you want to get in touch with me, go to my English Wikipedia home page.

I release all my contributions to this wiki as Public Domain or equivalent.

Projects
As well as lots of Wikimedia-related stuff, I also run MediaWiki at work. I'm desperately waiting for the 1.16 release ...

Expect the Solaris instructions to improve. I can summarise my work documentation of MW on Solaris as "You really don't want to do this", and suggest you just use a Linux distro with a decent repository instead. CentOS 4.5 is surprisingly not-bad if you get a buttload of stuff from CentosPlus.

I expect using http://opencsw.org - a Linux-style dependency-resolving repository for Solaris, particularly Solaris 10 - would make life way easier, if all you have is a hammer. The work wiki is actually running on a Solaris 10 box, though thankfully I didn't do the original installation. I shudder to think what buckets of rubbish the original sysadmin had to install. By hand from sunfreeware.

One thing I'm doing on mediawiki.org is to create redirects and pages that just suggest other pages. This is so that typing a word into the "search" box will give a useful result. Again, my motivations are helpful selfishness, i.e. if it'd be more useful for me it'd be more useful for others. Let me know if I do something that appears unhelpful.