lsanger@nupedia.com writes:
[...] but it's something I can't do (well, I could try, but you might not like the results).
[...]
I think it would be great to rename HomePage and RecentChanges,
This you can do (if you are able to edit the script). In wiki.cgi, around line 65 there are a couple of definitions. If you replace the quoted "RecentChanges" with "Recent_Changes" that will work (or "Recent_changes"). Same for "HomePage".
If all goes well, it should take only two minutes. If problems develop, just undo the change. (I.e. keep a backup of wiki.cgi around and copy that back in case of desaster.)
but only if we can "redirect" traffic from those pages to "Wikipedia: ..." and "Recent Changes."
Once RecentChanges and HomePages are no longer special, everybody can put a #REDIRECT there.
The search changes are more tricky. If I had a current copy of the script, I could tell you which lines to replace by what, but I'm not going to download the 60MB tarball for that.