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There is a huge amount of explanations about customization of MediaWiki (see "External Links" below) but it seems to be much blah blah to me instead of a quick and handy «Hello World example». What is actually clear: There are many ways to do it! A major place for customization the look'n feel of your Wiki is the file skins/MonoBook.php but it might be an ugly approach. If you were smarter than I please let me know. I will place some notes here as far as I have clarified the customization. An easy and useful feature I have discovered is the use of templates. --reto

Customize Wrapper Template of Edit Pages:

/var/www/html/wiki/skins/MonoBook.php

Hide Special Pages URLs from users not logged in

How to hide URLs like 'Upload file' or 'Special pages'.

patch MonoBook.php MonoBook_1_7_1.patch

• files/monobook 1 7 1 patch.txt
  Hide the complete toolbox from users not logged in.
  
  
• files/monobook 1 7 1 p2 patch.txt
  Hide special pages from users not logged in only.

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See also:

Use of Templates Customize Layout Customize (General) Configuration (First steps) Post installation files

External Links: MediaWiki Templates Help:Template (meta.wikimedia.org) MediaWiki Namespace (meta.wikimedia.org) Look and Feel (meta.wikimedia.org) Customization:Explaining_skins (meta.wikimedia.org)

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