Invitations and Becomings

I've been a big advocate of wikis and in particular Wikipedia for a long time now, and during that time, I've always argued that you can't discredit Wikipedia by exposing factual errors, for the simple reason that - with enough contributors - exposing an error is practically equivalent to fixing it. In any case, there's no formal distinction to be made between reading and writing Wikipedia (that's the point!), so you can fairly ask any critic who finds an error, why they didn't just fix it. (Let's call that the well-fix-it-dear-henry argument).

Just set up an xampp test environment on my laptop, but couldn't get Apache to run.

After spending a little while trying to read the posts to the Apache Friends forum - while seem to all be in German - it became clear that the only way to get more information would be to start Apache from the command prompt to see whatever error message popped up.

To do this, I went to c:/xampp and opened apache_start.bat. Sure enough, there was an error message: