Every time I’m working with a new install of MediaWiki I have to hunt down this same information. I don’t think I’ve even installed or customized that many MediaWiki instances. The time between setting up each new wiki has allowed me to forget what the answer is and searching for this fix is really hard since lots of people are talking about the wiki Main Page in other contexts.
What you need to search for is “mainpage” on the mediawiki.org site; “mainpage” is variable key name that’s used to retrieve the value which is used for your wiki main or index page. Once you start searching for that instead of “custom Main Page” or something similar you’ll end up at the Media Wiki Help FAQ, perhaps you should just go there first every time…
Here’s the answer ยป
Going to your MediaWiki:Mainpage as a user with sysop privileges lets you change the index page your wiki will show. Now hopefully I’ll be able to search my own blog and find this answer next time, or more likely I will forget I even wrote this.
Agreed that I never remember between sessions of skinning MediaWiki, even though I did a fair job of tearing it apart a bit and reassembling it to fit another design. Compare my desparate attempts:
https://wiki.108.redhat.com
https://www.108.redhat.com
Works great on my browser and OS! I just wish it was as easy and popular as WordPress for skinning. *sigh* I went through this recently for some stuff on Dreamhost, which is why I remembered that I also didn’t remember how.
Stupid Apache redirects …
Try https://wiki.108.redhat.com/wiki/
… I wonder if I can fix that myself?
This helped me, thank you.
Great tip, thanks.
Hi, Thanks for the help.
This is what they say must be done:
Thanks Bryan, like you I always have to look up how to do this! Most helpful
I search for “mediawiki custom Main page” and your post is the first in the result. It helps alot. Thanx.
Useful info thank you.
A suggestion. Change your colour scheme. The black text on dark green is very hard to read!
How can I make indexppage active