Thread:Project:Support desk/Should I use MediaWiki for my project?

Hello guys,

I am involved in an internship. My duty is to create a demo for a wiki which is a repository for process components. I am not sure about involving in such a complicated environment as MediaWiki and I really can use some advice. I have a different skin design than the one MediaWiki uses, also I need to add some rather easy functionalities to wiki which I do not need help to implement. However, I need some of the functionalities of MediaWiki like access restrictions, sign up etc. Ultimately, an experienced programmer is going to write the real wiki with full functionality using MediaWiki yet I have to be able to demonstrate the functionalities in a rather easy way.

For instance, how do I remove all of unnecessary buttons and links from my page and add my own buttons. Where is the code of my Main_Page or any other page I added by simple entering the name after the ~/index.php? So far I only could learn how to create a new skin, which is rather hard because it is not simply writing a css code. If there is a way to code the way I want, how much is it harder than coding the same from scratch using just html, css and js. I didn't install MediaWiki from the git, is this a problem? ANY idea will be appriciated, I am really new to software engineering and just finished my first year of BSCS. I don't want to screw things up in my very first job:)