User:Brian7632416

I've wanted to create a wiki ever since I discovered Wikipedia.org a few years ago. But I could never get non-MediaWiki software (e.g., FlexWiki) installed correctly on Windows-hosted (ASP) remote servers, and I had a crappy hosting service anyway (1&1 - shudder). So I put aside my ASP woes and tried a new Linux-based hosting service (Servage.net) that, like all the other hosts, claimed ease of use and auto-installation of scripts, but offering a MediaWiki auto-install.

I'll be darned; their auto-installer installed MediaWiki in about 10 seconds, and perfectly, even though I have multiple domains hosted in a shared environment (which 1&1 seemed to have a problem with).

And MediaWiki worked right from the git-go, and was very stable. MediaWiki.org's documentation pages were easy to understand in most cases. I was up and running with my recipe wiki DishiWiki pretty fast.

I still have a lot of questions about MediaWiki and php in general, but I'm learning as I go, and I'm having a lot of fun. Brian7632416 17:39, 28 September 2008 (UTC)