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.

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.

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.