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Mediawiki theme12/24/2023 This essentially merges the administration tools of the website into the front-end of the site. Pages can be locked-down, so only certain users have editing privledges. What I’ve found most interesting about MediaWiki is that people are starting to use it to build “normal” non-wiki websites. I’ve since done some minor skin/theme design for our silverorange wiki, and the WikiPEI site, though I hope to improve both in the coming months. However, after stripping out a lot of the features I didn’t want or need, I started to get the hang of visually customizing the MediaWiki interface. When I first started playing with MediaWiki to do some visual customization for the Mozilla wiki, I felt a little bit like I was wandering lost through a jungle of PHP, HTML, and CSS. MediaWiki is most well known as the software behind the Wikipdia. MediaWiki is one of many software systems that can be used to power wiki sites. Pages on a wiki-powered website have an “edit” button, and anyone can make a change. A wiki is a special kind of website that anyone can edit. What the heck is a “wiki”?įirst, some background. Rather, it is an observation that MediaWiki can be used to build sites that look and feel like tradition (non-Wiki) websites. Acts of Volition Using MediaWiki to Build a “normal” Website Septemby Steven Garrity in Open Source Software, Usability & Design, Web Developmentĭespite the misleading title, this is not a tutorial on how to use MediaWiki to build a website.
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