Thread:Project:Support desk/Requirements to create a wiki page/reply

Hi!

If you only want to set up one page, e.g. like the article "James Bond" in wikipedia, then you do not have to be able to write code.

If you instead want to set up a complete wiki, then it would be a help, if you knew a little bit about the syntax of PHP (not even about different PHP functions themselves, just the syntax). However, I would even say that you can also manage that without programming skills. For starting a wiki, it is enough, to know where the file LocalSettings.php is located, in which things are set up and can be changed. But MediaWiki also has an installer, which asks you all basic questions and configures your wiki for you. I would say that you should be able to set up MediaWiki without programming skills.

It is something else, when you want to change certain functionalities of MediaWiki. If you want to add functions or modify the internals, how certain things work. For these cases MediaWiki uses extensions and in my experience it often is a help, if you know a bit of PHP to understand, how exactly an extension is working - especially, when it is not working. However, usually you will want to do that later - and then you most likely already are somehow familiar with MediaWiki.

Just give it a try. :-)