Customization

MediaWiki can be customized in several ways. It is distributed as GPL. You may thus contribute your own skins, extensions and patches.

Configuration

 * Configuration parameters may be easily defined in a localsettings>Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php file.
 * sysmsg>Special:MyLanguage/Help:System message|Interface messages can be modified in the wiki.
 * Extensions and patches are provided by the community, some of which are available here. They generally fall into one of these categories:


 * Extensions defining a new wiki tag (see also: tag-ext>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Tag extensions|Write your own MediaWiki extension)
 * Extensions defining a new special page (see also: special-pages>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special pages|Writing a new special page)


 * MediaWiki is multilingual, and fully so with the ext-translate>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Translate|Translate extension.
 * The faq>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ#Changing the Interface|FAQ contains a lot of useful customization info.

Skins


Look and feel can be modified by using different skins>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Skins|skins. There are gallery>:Category:All skins|various third-party skins, which allow radically changing the look and feel of the site.