Few other popular sites use MediaWiki as their primary CMS. Basically it's
just us, Wikia, and wikiHow AFAIK. I'd definitely go to
wikihow.com and
check out what they've done in their just-launched redesign.
Here's a screenshot of their previous homepage, for comparison:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/9/9a/20131019173222%21Wik…
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/