Glad you want to join the Tikiwiki Community.
Our documentation site has some pretty good guides on how to Install your tiki out of the box, and choose which configurationyou want to make active.
Apart from the nuts and bolts IT and software stuff, are some ideas for the first steps you can do to make it grow.
Wikis are interactive community oriented sites - of course it is not exactly an "if you build it they will come" situation. You need to plan how (and think why) people would want to participate in your site.
Basically there are three reasons why people participate voluntarily in online communities.
Sure there are lots of unselfish reasons that people participate too, but if people keep coming back there is something in it for them. How do you think people will interact in the site - what kind of collaboration or communication needs to happen. How can we deploy the tools Tikiwiki provides to make this work: Choose which features to enable: Wiki, Blogs, Tiki Forums, articles, Comments, Surveys, Trackers, User Features, HTML pages, the Shoutbox, etc.
Never underestimate the power that the visual appearance of your site has on people. People are overwhelmingly sensory, and when there is no sound, taste or smell to your website (um, and i think there are ways of doing that now if you really want to) people will be very focused on the visual appearance - so don't skimp on this dept.
Things to remember:
Having a spell checker in your browser is essential if you are doing live-to-web stuff.
Some very informal comments here. If you are the owner/operator of a website which is accessible to the public no matter how small you are a publisher under some national laws. Whatever happens in password protected pages is pretty much your own business, but anything that is publicly viewable can lead to legal issues if someone considers it libelous, or infringes on a copyright.
If you allow public or anonymous comments on your site you are still responsible for the content, whether you wrote it or not. Practicing "due care and attention" of a public wiki means having a terms of use statement and upholding whatever community standards that are appropriate for your site.
Note: Disclaiming all responsibility will not work - it is still your site in the eyes of the law.
Really, what you need to do to operate a public wiki or forum is relatively simple.
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