Setting up a wiki

Most of my time the last day or two has been devoted to setting up my new AIDS Lifecycle Wiki, which I expect will mostly be a community effort by one person (that would be me)--I mostly want to play with Mediawiki! It's been pretty complex setting up the antispam guards and configuring the wiki--would be child's play except that I don't know the first thing about php or Mediawiki, and the documentation (what there is of it) mostly assumes that you're a competent sysadmin already. I've been learning a lot as I go.

So far I've managed to export most of the Help system from wikimedia.org, set up a basic antispam guard, and put together the basic outline for the structure. I need to think a bit more about what information would be helpful/interesting to riders, and structure it accordingly.

I don't know if this wiki will ever see the light of day (I'm not giving out the URL because there's nothing there yet), but it's an interesting possibility.

I have also sent a draft of my sample chapter off to the director of AIDS Lifecycle, with a request for help in contacting several people/organizations. Hope to hear back from him in a week or two.