Thank you, Frederik, David, and Lonny, for answering my question about
changing the main page title. I will review and try the suggestions.
I had asked from an SEO perspective, as title tags are important elements in
SEO. I wanted to create a main page that introduces my wiki- that has a
descriptive title tag above.
Kristin
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From: "Lonny" <lonny(a)appropedia.org>
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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] change title tag on main page?
Hi Fredrik,
You can also make a new mainpage and direct mediawiki to find it. For
instance:
1. Create a new mainpage at
www.yoursite.org/New title page
2. Then edit the mediawiki namespace Mainpage (
www.yoursite.org/MediaWiki:Mainpage) to point to the new main page - New
title page
See
http://www.appropedia.org/MediaWiki:Mainpage for an example.
Good luck,
Lonny
On 7/23/07, Frederik Dohr <fdg001(a)gmx.net> wrote:
How do I change the title tag on the main page of
my wiki?
This might not be what you're after, but you can remove/hide the title
of the Main Page by adding the following code to either
[[MediaWiki:Common.css]] or [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]:
h1.firstHeading { /* remove Main Page title */
display: none !important;
}
Then you can add a level 1 heading with your custom title:
= Front Page =
You could also #REDIRECT to the page with the desired name (that's not
an optimal solution though).
I believe it's also possible to change the default page from Main Page
to whatever you like - search the list archives; it's been discussed
before.
HTH.
-- F.
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