On Feb 4, 2008 7:01 AM, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 4, 2008 10:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/02/2008, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I added a simple hook to our settings file that prevents deletion of the main page on any Wikimedia wiki. Thankfully, it does not require flooding the database with 3.8 million edits (5000 edits times 763 wikis).
Is there any way to override that? Contact a sysadmin, I guess. There are cases where deleting the main page may be required (not very common cases, but it could happen).
Yes, you can edit [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]] to say something other than "Main Page" and then you can delete or move [[Main Page]] since it won't be the main page anymore.
LOL. Moral of the story: tell others about your idea before you try to fix a problem all by yourself.