You probably will also want to reference the MediaWiki:Sidebar manual page to learn more about the MediaWiki:Sidebar. Initially, this page does not exist and you will be prompted to create one. To edit the sidebar contents, search for the MediaWiki:Sidebar page. Hence, it can be used for navigation purposes. The sidebar will show on every page that you create. Enter the name of the page that you want to designate as the first page. Create a new page and edit the MediaWiki:Mainpage page to point to it.Click on the move link on the top navigation bar to rename Main Page.However, if you do not like the name of the main page, there are two ways to change it: If you like the name as it is, you can edit the contents of the page to include your own contents. The default main page that is included with a MediaWiki installation is named as Main Page. Be very careful of editing existing content as MediaWiki maintain a page history for every page and there may be users who are watching the page that you are going to edit. To edit a page, click the edit link at the top bar. When there are existing content, you may want to edit them to include your ideas. You probably will also want to learn the MediaWiki syntax to format your content. By doing so, I can check if my content is unique within the system and if there are any content that I can leverage on. Personally, I prefer to enter a page name in the search box on the left and have the system prompting me to create a new page if the page does not exist in the system. There are a couple of ways to do create new pages in MediaWiki. $wgGroupPermissions = true Ĭreating pages is the essence of knowledge sharing in MediaWiki. If you want to limit account creation to your administrators, look for the following line in the same file: To prevent anonymous edits in MediaWiki, look for the following line in the DefaultSettings.php file: Preventing anonymous editsįor a internal knowledge sharing platform, you may have to make sure that only a certain group of people can be granted editing rights. Many variables are prefixed with wg, which stands for "Wiki Globals". The DefaultSettings.php file, which can be found in the includes folder.The LocalSettings.php file, which can be found in the root of the installation folder.There are two main PHP files which contain configuration settings for the MediaWiki installation: In this post, I will share what I had gathered in the process of doing so. Like many others, I had configured a knowledge sharing platform for my colleagues to share their thoughts within our company. MediaWiki provides users with a flexible platform to share knowledge, out of the box. Getting started with MediaWiki as a knowledge sharing platform
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