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The I've previously created a custom skin used on this site is based on [http://paulgu.com/wiki/Mediawiki_Skins the excellent work of Paul Gu] Developers should check out [[Wiki developers]] for more sites of people like Paul who develop wikis.
I've seen some other projects that have nice Mediawiki skins, but I never bothered to write them down. A quick search reveals several projects by Suse:
# http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org
# http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
# http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page
# http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org
I hesitate to call it a 'nice example' because it doesn't seem all that compelling, but there is the mozilla project wiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/Main_Page http://developer.mozilla.org used to run Mediawiki, with a very nice theme and lots of custom templates and graphics. Now they are running a commercial opensource wiki product called "deki" which is apparently trying to compete in the "enterprise wiki" market.
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== Nice Examples ==
There are countless examples of mediawiki MediaWiki installations across the Internet. We've started indexing all the wikis we can find, and you can see a list of the top wikis at {{WikiReportUrl}}. Some of the ones that have actually bothered to customize customized the "look and feel" include# the [http://linuxfoundation.org/ Linux Foundation] site is powered by Mediawiki, but rumor is that they are moving more content to drupal.
* the [http://techbase.kde.org/ KDE Techbase] is Mediawiki. The http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Software_Engineering_Framework article explains all their tech platform tools.
* The [http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project Tango] project (see "icons" above) runs their website on a customized MediaWiki.
* The [http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page Blender] project has a nice custom skin
* The [http://wiki.eclipse.org/Main_Page Eclipse project] uses MediaWiki for their wiki site
* [httphttps://amarokcommunity.kde.org/wiki/Main_Page Amarok Amarok] rocks with MediaWiki
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Main_Page Creative Commons]
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Version Fedora Project wiki]
* [http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Main_Page Ubuntu Guide]
* http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org* http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page* The [httphttps://kubuntuguidewiki.mozilla.org/Intrepid Kubuntu GuideMain_Page Mozilla Project wiki]runs MediaWiki
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