我可以将mediawiki配置为右侧栏，其中解释了主页面中的链接吗？

My question is stated in the title but let me explain it more.

I have Mediawiki 1.21.3 installed on my server. The pages I want to create consist of one or two paragraphs only. They are definitions of meteorological terms just like in http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Quasigeostrophic_approximation . They have a pretty good database but unfortunately it is only in English. I want to do something quite similar but with one big difference. When you look at the main page, a side bar containing all the links from the main page and their explanations to be visible to the right. Something like that:

|                   |         main page           |     right side
|left side with     |  .......<link 1>.........   |  link1:........
|navigation,        |  <link 2>................   |  link2:........
|and others         |  ........<link3>.........   |  ..............
|                   |  ........................   |  link3:........

What I dislike in Wikipedia is how I need to go back and forth between pages when the main page has many links I need to follow. I would gladly prefer the links with the beginning of their explanation to be visible to the right.

Can I do that with Mediawiki? If not, do you know any other CMS suitable for the purpose. I can always write it myself in PHP but if something better already exists, I will give it a try. I am new to wiki-like software, excuse me if the question is too simple. Google turned out with nothing useful. Thank you.

You can organize your links into a Template and display them on the right hand side.

You can create a template by adding [[template:swordfish]] on a page (in this case, swordfish is the name of the template I’m creating). You then add the custom set of links you want to include in that template page. To embed the template on your page, simply type {{template:swordfish}} where you want the template to appear. The template navigation usually consists of links (styled however you want) pointing to your other wiki pages. Mediawiki is smart enough to dynamically change the class of the link that corresponds to the same page you’re viewing (the class becomes “selflink”), so you can create a unique style for the selflink class in your stylesheet.

The above was referenced from this link.

Here is an example

Create a new template. The easiest way to do this is to save a page with [[template:example]] on the page. Open that template and put your content inside. You can put links and descriptions in here. Save that page, go back to your initial page and inside it put {{template:example}} near the header. Style it so that it will show up on the right side: style="float:right" or whichever way you want to get it over there. Save that and you should bee good to go. Here is one I whipped up in about 5 minutes: