14 MediaWiki Sites the Don't Look Like Wikipedia
In some recent projects, the topic of wikis has come up, but many people are put off by the look of them. Most wikis that you'll encounter use a variation of the default template and look like Wikipedia, and while many wikis are well-served by this approach, it is far from the only option.
MediaWiki is an extremely themable, flexible, robust system if you want it to be. While it lacks the large and passionate theming community that Wordpress and other CMSes have, MediaWiki has a straightforward architecture and can be easily style, integrated, and personalized. The possibilities range from swapping colors to integrating the wiki into a larger site to building something so different looking, it is almost entirely unrecognizable as MediaWiki.
To demonstrate the possibilities, I went through every English site listed on Sites Using MediaWiki and pulled out the best examples of customization and transformation. This list excludes the simple color changes, focusing rather on the more radical total transformations, probably unrecognizable as MediaWiki and the clever and seemless integrations with an existing website.
Let me know if you find any other great uses of MediaWiki.
Total Transformations
Customized, but probably still recognizable as MediaWiki
