Turn your "wiki news" page into an RSS feed with WikiArticleFeeds:
http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiArticleFeeds
and then display it with the <rss> tag such as http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mutante/RSSFeed. That's what we do.
Alternatively, check out the extension "Dynamic Page List". It is INSANELY powerful. It can extract bits of other pages to create this sort of effect. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList
DanB
-----Original Message----- I just need some help on how to display the first few items of page on another page using a template? Something like in the "MediaWiki News"...