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/* Site logo container */
.mw-logo {
/* adjust size/spacing here */
}

/* Sticky header bar */
.vector-header {
background-color: #1a56db;
}

/* Search box */
.vector-search-box {
border-radius: 20px;
}

/* Login / Register button (top right) */
#p-personal a {
background-color: #d6336c;
color: #fff;
border-radius: 20px;
padding: 6px 14px;
}

/* Sidebar section headers (the clickable collapsible ones) */
.vector-menu-heading {
font-weight: 600;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 12px;
}

/* Sidebar width */
#mw-panel {
width: 280px;
}

MediaWiki:Vector-2022.js

2026-08-22T11:52:04Z

DevMoinulHasan: Created page with "document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', function () { document.querySelectorAll( '.mw-portlet' ).forEach( function ( portlet ) { var label = portlet.querySelector( '.mw-portlet-label' ); if ( !label ) return; label.addEventListener( 'click', function () { portlet.classList.toggle( 'tl-collapsed' ); } ); } ); } );"

MediaWiki:Vector-2022.css

2026-08-22T11:51:22Z

DevMoinulHasan: Created page with "/* Make section headers look clickable, with an arrow indicator */ .mw-portlet-label { cursor: pointer; position: relative; padding-right: 20px; } .mw-portlet-label::after { content: "▾"; position: absolute; right: 4px; transition: transform 0.2s ease; } /* Collapsed state: rotate arrow, hide the list */ .mw-portlet.tl-collapsed .mw-portlet-label::after { transform: rotate(-90deg); } .mw-portlet.tl-collapsed .mw-portlet-body { displ..."

/* Make section headers look clickable, with an arrow indicator */
.mw-portlet-label {
cursor: pointer;
position: relative;
padding-right: 20px;
}
.mw-portlet-label::after {
content: "▾";
position: absolute;
right: 4px;
transition: transform 0.2s ease;
}

/* Collapsed state: rotate arrow, hide the list */
.mw-portlet.tl-collapsed .mw-portlet-label::after {
transform: rotate(-90deg);
}
.mw-portlet.tl-collapsed .mw-portlet-body {
display: none;
}

MediaWiki:Vector.js

2026-08-22T11:47:31Z

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MediaWiki:Vector.js

2026-08-22T11:47:00Z

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/* All JavaScript here will be loaded for users of the Vector skin */

var categorySection = $('#p-Categories');

if (!categorySection.length) {
return;
}

var categoryTitle = categorySection.find('.vector-menu-heading');

categoryTitle.css({
'cursor': 'pointer',
'user-select': 'none'
});

categoryTitle.on('click', function () {
categorySection.toggleClass('categories-open');
});

MediaWiki:Sidebar

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MediaWiki:Sidebar

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MediaWiki:Vector.css

2026-08-22T11:01:18Z

DevMoinulHasan: Created page with "/* All CSS here will be loaded for users of the Vector skin */ #p-Categories .vector-menu-content { display: none; } #p-Categories.categories-open .vector-menu-content { display: block; } #p-Categories .vector-menu-heading { cursor: pointer; }"

/* All CSS here will be loaded for users of the Vector skin */
#p-Categories .vector-menu-content {
display: none;
}

#p-Categories.categories-open .vector-menu-content {
display: block;
}

#p-Categories .vector-menu-heading {
cursor: pointer;
}

MediaWiki:Vector.js

2026-08-22T11:00:28Z

DevMoinulHasan: Created page with "/* All JavaScript here will be loaded for users of the Vector skin */ $(function () { var categorySection = $('#p-Categories'); if (!categorySection.length) { return; } var categoryTitle = categorySection.find('.vector-menu-heading'); categoryTitle.css({ 'cursor': 'pointer', 'user-select': 'none' }); categoryTitle.on('click', function () { categorySection.toggleClass('categories-open'); }); });"

/* All JavaScript here will be loaded for users of the Vector skin */
$(function () {
var categorySection = $('#p-Categories');

if (!categorySection.length) {
return;
}

var categoryTitle = categorySection.find('.vector-menu-heading');

categoryTitle.css({
'cursor': 'pointer',
'user-select': 'none'
});

categoryTitle.on('click', function () {
categorySection.toggleClass('categories-open');
});
});

MediaWiki:Sidebar

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MediaWiki:Sidebar

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MediaWiki:Sidebar

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* navigation
** mainpage|Home
** recentchanges-url|Recent Changes
** helppage|Help Portal
** specialpages-url|Special Pages

MediaWiki:Sidebar

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* navigation
** mainpage|Home
** recentchanges-url|Recent Changes
** helppage|Help Portal
** specialpages-url|special Pages

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2026-08-22T10:38:11Z

Category:News

2026-08-22T10:33:58Z

DevMoinulHasan: Created page with "This category contains news and announcements from our organization."

This category contains news and announcements from our organization.

About Us

2026-08-22T10:32:37Z

DevMoinulHasan:

Yes. **MediaWiki is a CMS, but it is a very specialized one.** It is best known as the software behind Wikipedia.

### Why do people use MediaWiki?

MediaWiki is designed primarily for **knowledge bases, documentation, encyclopedias, and collaborative websites**, rather than normal business websites.

Its biggest strengths are:

* **Collaborative editing** — many users can create and edit articles.
* **Revision history** — every change is recorded, so you can see who changed what and revert changes.
* **User permissions** — administrators can control who can edit, create pages, upload files, etc.
* **Huge-scale content** — it can handle tens of thousands or millions of pages.
* **Categories and internal linking** — excellent for organizing large amounts of related information.
* **Templates** — reusable structures can be created for pages.
* **Extensions** — there are many extensions for adding functionality.
* **Discussion/history features** — useful for communities and documentation projects.
* **Open source and free** — no CMS licensing cost.

For example, if you're building:

> "A knowledge base containing 50,000 articles about historical documents, with multiple researchers editing and reviewing them"

MediaWiki makes a lot of sense.

![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/JkcCzGxLZT8hoUXMj7Cmih0V8C1GFUIO04LBVZ6wO6q4sFw_n8wPaxkh1F03ZcNErHUnSYWO15cMPixUW8c4B8QKg9FYXulyDMwP1lRq7zFdkKB9VKlFSvCB4WOluIGc0Jb1DOSD1-cjhTtKyz5ly8ZTWaZDucepQH4P7JGztSL1mb5JgqRHOdnUFM0c6iZA?purpose=fullsize)

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### But MediaWiki is NOT necessarily the best choice for a normal website

If someone wants:

> Company website → Home / About / Services / Blog / Contact

I would generally **not recommend MediaWiki**.

WordPress, for example, is much more suitable because it gives you a better visual editing experience, themes, page builders, plugins, SEO tools, forms, ecommerce, etc.

### What are the alternatives?

It depends heavily on **what you're building**:

| CMS | Best for | Difficulty |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| **MediaWiki** | Wikipedia-style knowledge bases | Medium–High |
| **WordPress** | Business websites, blogs, content sites | Easy–Medium |
| **Drupal** | Large/complex content platforms | High |
| **Joomla** | General CMS + portals | Medium |
| **DokuWiki** | Simple documentation/wiki | Easy–Medium |
| **BookStack** | Internal documentation/knowledge bases | Easy |
| **Wiki.js** | Modern knowledge bases/wiki | Medium |
| **Outline** | Modern team documentation | Easy |
| **Ghost** | Publishing/blogging | Easy |
| **Webflow** | Visual marketing websites | Easy–Medium |

### MediaWiki vs modern alternatives

If your goal is specifically a **wiki/knowledge base**, I'd look at these:

**1. Wiki.js — probably the most interesting modern alternative**

It's much more modern-looking than traditional MediaWiki and supports Markdown, visual editing, authentication, search, permissions, etc.

**2. BookStack — excellent for internal documentation**

Very straightforward. Its structure is essentially:

> Shelves → Books → Chapters → Pages

This works extremely well for company manuals, technical documentation, SOPs, etc.

**3. DokuWiki — lightweight and simple**

Good if you want a relatively small documentation/wiki system without the complexity of MediaWiki.

**4. Outline — excellent modern UX**

Particularly good for teams that want something resembling Notion/Confluence rather than Wikipedia.

### The important distinction

Think of it this way:

**MediaWiki**
→ "We have a massive amount of interconnected knowledge and many people need to maintain it."

**WordPress**
→ "We need a website where administrators can easily publish and manage content."

**BookStack / Wiki.js / Outline**
→ "We need a modern documentation/knowledge-base platform."

So if you're asking because **a client currently has a MediaWiki website and wants to redesign/migrate it**, tell me what type of website it is and roughly how many pages/articles it has. I can tell you whether **MediaWiki should be kept or migrated to WordPress, Wiki.js, BookStack, etc.**, and what the migration difficulty would be.

[[Category:News]]

About Us

2026-08-22T10:30:31Z

DevMoinulHasan: Created page with "Yes. **MediaWiki is a CMS, but it is a very specialized one.** It is best known as the software behind Wikipedia. ### Why do people use MediaWiki? MediaWiki is designed primarily for **knowledge bases, documentation, encyclopedias, and collaborative websites**, rather than normal business websites. Its biggest strengths are: * **Collaborative editing** — many users can create and edit articles. * **Revision history** — every change is recorded, so you can see who..."

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2026-08-22T10:26:24Z

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2026-08-22T10:25:31Z

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This is a sample page.