Comments on: Changing the MediaWiki Main Page

By: Alan L Henderson

Alan L Henderson — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:42:58 +0000

Useful info thank you.
A suggestion. Change your colour scheme. The black text on dark green is very hard to read!

By: Anni

Anni — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:32:02 +0000

I search for “mediawiki custom Main page” and your post is the first in the result. It helps alot. Thanx.

By: Richard Carter

Richard Carter — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:32:11 +0000

Thanks Bryan, like you I always have to look up how to do this! Most helpful

By: Foxinni - Wordpress Designer

Foxinni - Wordpress Designer — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:06:13 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the help.

This is what they say must be done:

How do I change the main page?

By default, MediaWiki looks for a page with the title Main Page and serves this as the default page. This can be changed by altering the contents of MediaWiki:Mainpage to point to a different title. If this does not change the ‘Main Page’ link included on the sidebar at install time, edit MediaWiki:Sidebar.”

By: ch__

ch__ — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:12 +0000

Great tip, thanks.

By: x

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:40:54 +0000

This helped me, thank you.

By: Karsten Wade

Karsten Wade — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:36:56 +0000

Stupid Apache redirects …

Try https://wiki.108.redhat.com/wiki/

… I wonder if I can fix that myself?

By: Karsten Wade

Karsten Wade — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:34:49 +0000

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.