Hello?!
I am new to making my own website. MediaWiki is easy to create and edit web pages, but modifying the appearance and features of MediaWiki itself is extremely difficult. There is no site builder and you have to copy and paste information into a .php and I don't even know where to paste it! The MediaWiki guide is useless. It is written like you are supposed to know what they are talking about.
One of the things I would like to do with MediaWiki, if possible, is to make it white and red.
Another thing I would like to do is create Info Boxes.
I am also wondering what I can do to reduce spam. I have already set up where you must create an account to edit.
And... I would like to put ads on my website. How do you to this?
I think the only ads available for MediaWiki is AdSense.
But I also have other subdomains which are WordPress and SimpleMachinesForums. Are Forums acceptable for AdSense? I had AdBrite but AdBrite is gone now.

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