MediaWiki Configuration

Configuring MediaWiki is easy enough, but requires some planning. Configuration parameters may be easily defined in a LocalSettings.php file.

This is a list of some of things you can modify:

Use a custom icon
Customizing a MediaWiki "skin" -- change the background and general look of your wiki
Content and links in the sidebar navigation.
You can control user access to editing features, and group membership.
Interface messages can be modified in the wiki.
MediaWiki is multilingual and can be configured to display its interface in any number of languages
There are a variety of extensions that have been written in PHP
Templates can be added to extend the consistency of format for similiar content
If ImageMagick is installed on the server, users can resize images and create thumbnails.
Using a special table in the MySQL database, shortcuts within a wiki and interwiki links (links to other wikis) can be created for users
"Skins" for how the wiki looks