So I installed MediaWiki on my linux box and I'm trying to learn how to use it. I found the user's guides on wikimedia.org, but I'm looking for something printable (hopefully even in pdf format). When it comes to long reads, paper is still king.

Anyone know where I can find a good tutorial / how-to / admin's guide?

Thanks!

hmm. That's kind of contrary to the whole concept of a wiki. ;-)

If you want a real book (or a book in pdf format), you can get it for a price:

http://www.packtpub.com/Mediawiki/book


While it's true that paper and books are sometimes nice, and I have lots of them, when I'm getting into a server project or a new piece of software, I end up spending a lot of time with man pages, google, online documentation often in the form of wikis, and various blogs and mailing list archives. I also wouldn't want to minimize the value of just doing things to see how they work.