Customization

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

Configuration

 * are defined in the   file.


 * sysmsg>Special:MyLanguage/Help:System message|Interface messages can be modified by editing their corresponding wiki page.


 * Many community-provided cat>Special:MyLanguage/Category:Extensions|extensions are available. They generally fall into one of these categories:


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


 * Extensions defining a new 1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Special pages|special page (see also: special-pages>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special pages|Writing a new special page)


 * MediaWiki is multilingual, and fully so with the  extension.


 * The faq>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ#Changing the interface|FAQ contains additional customization info.

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