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A Guide to Using MediaWiki in a Hosted Environment
An instructional website by the developer of mh370wiki.net - a MediaWiki site about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
This is an instructional website about MediaWiki based on what I have learned during the development of a website about Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing on 8 March 2014.
Construction of the website mh370wiki.net started in 2015 and I chose MediaWiki as the platform. With over ten years of development that site now has significant content. But is the structure of the site and the way MediaWiki has been configured or customised that will be the focus of this one, mw.mh370.wiki.
Along the way I faced many challenges, made quite a few mistakes, and spent a lot of time working with MediaWiki instead of adding content. I hope that what I present here may be encouraging and helpful to new developers.
Unlike a purely tutorial site, this one is written in 'first person' using 'I' a lot. The journey has been personal and the experience is mine, but I want to share it.
Even the colours on this website have been selected for instructional purposes, not for elegance in graphical design. See below:-
Grant
Website Theme - Colours
| Color Variable | Color Hex Code | Class and Color |
|---|---|---|
| --SteelBlue-80 | #B6CEE2 | #mw-head |
| --SteelBlue-70 | #91B6D4 | .mw-body |
| --SteelBlue-60 | #6C9DC6 | .mw-footer |
| --SteelBlue-50 | #4785B8 | #mw-panel.vector-legacy-sidebar.collapsible-nav |
| --SteelBlue-40 | #396A93 | body |
| #F2F2F2 | .mw-body-content | |
| #BDCCDB | .catlinks | |
| #CED8E4 | .mw-normal-catlinks | |
| --Tan-80 | #E2CFB6 | .vector-menu-content |
| --Tan-70 | #D4B791 | .vector-menu-heading-label |
| --Tan-60 | #C69F6C | .vector-menu-heading |
| --Tan-50 | #B88747 | .vector-menu-portal |
| --Tan-40 | #936C39 | #p-tb |
For more detail, see Apply a Custom Colour Scheme.
Note: This site is 'under construction'. Development started in July 2025.