Steps to Getting MediaWiki Running

From NetworkChatter

To make a skin that you download your default skin for users who are not logged in

$wgDefaultSkin = 'drupal';

Skin name should be in all lower case characters.

To disable editing of pages by anonymous users:

$wgDefaultUserOptions ['editsection'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true;

If you are going to run your Wiki as a display only site, you should disable the ability for someone to create an account:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Modify your copyright message. The default text for mediawiki:copyright is "Content is available under $1." I change this to "Copyright (c) $1 - Dale Henninger"

Then you have to modify $wgRightsText = "2010"; to set the value that will be used by $1.

Remove the IP address from pages - this will improve performance by making all anonymous page views more static.

$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

Edit the Navigation Sidebar:

http://yourwiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar

The first time that you view this you will have to "create" it before you can edit it.