G'day, bcraigie, and welcome to
Kunena.
Your question is not silly, daft and neither have you missed something obvious. The problem with the lack of documentation is, quite simply, it hasn't been written.
Every person who is a member of this community can write documentation. Yes, it requires a little technical know-how to write Wiki but that shouldn't be an excuse for people not to write something. Even if people don't know how to write "Wiki" they can use other tools (like
Open Office of
Microsoft Word ... or even good ol'
Windows Notepad) and send it to any member of the
team
and we can put it on the Wiki for you.
Basically, though, you don't require a lot of documentation to configure
Kunena. In fact, to be completely honest with you, I only change about three configuration settings and I leave all the others with their default values. But, you know something else? You don't actually have to change
any settings at all to make
Kunena work for you immediately, straight after you've installed it and, I think, this is something that many people forget. We receive a lot of questions here because people have been too "adventurous" with changing things around instead of working with the standard configuration first and only making changes after they find out what each setting does.
The Wiki main page is not intended to be a comprehensive table of contents. As with everything else contained in the Wiki, it is only meant to be a guide. I mostly navigate through the Wiki by using the search feature.
Yes, I completely agree with you, the documentation Wiki needs to be updated. This is not one person's job; everyone can help. It would be rather nice if a couple of people would offer to do some of that work.