[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#331417: mediawiki: Please add some doc about the wiki syntax

[Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1.4.10-1
Severity: wishlist


I have just install your package. It works great if you do that:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Debian_GNU/Linux

and not forgot to remove the cache of your browser if you did not want
to download the application/x-httpd-php files.

so it would be great to add a sumerize of the previous webpage in the
Debian Readme


My point is that I put user in front of the wiki and the first time
they want to edit a page they did not know about the wiki syntax.
Their reflex were to clic on the <Editing help> link at the bottom of
the edit page but their is nothing to look at.

the default behaviour whould be to obtain the wiki syntax here.

what do you think about this ?

Frédéric



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages mediawiki depends on:
ii  apache2                      2.0.54-5    next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]  2.0.54-5    traditional model for Apache2
ii  debconf                      1.4.58      Debian configuration management sy
ii  php4                         4:4.3.10-15 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php4-mysql                   4:4.3.10-15 MySQL module for php4

Versions of packages mediawiki recommends:
ii  mysql-server                  4.0.24-10  mysql database server binaries

-- debconf information:
* mediawiki/webserver: apache2