Help:My Home



My Home, found at Special:MyHome, helps you stay up to date with what's happening on the wiki. It also gives new contributors a way to get to know the community on the wiki, and it gives experienced contributors some new information that they haven't had access to before.

Elements

 * Activity feed
 * a friendly version of Recent changes that shows the latest activity on the wiki. The Activity feed adds some new information that you can't get on Recent changes, including thumbnails for new pictures and videos added to a page. You can also see your Watchlist using the new Activity feed layout.


 * Hot Spots
 * a new way to see what's happening on the wiki, showing the articles that have been edited by the most people in the last few days.


 * Community Corner
 * a spot for wiki admins to highlight things that are important to the community. Admins can use that space to organize a project, show off new pages that everyone should see, highlight a discussion that's happening on the wiki, or give a shout-out to a contributor who's added something special. Admins can change it by modifying MediaWiki:Community-corner

My Home offers a user-friendly version of some existing wiki features like Recent changes and Watchlist, but it doesn't replace the old versions. Recent changes is still where it's always been! My Home is designed to help newer contributors learn about the wiki, without taking away functionality that the experienced contributors are used to.

Customization
My Home and the user masthead use a few new color classes that you can customize in Monaco.css; the information can be found on Help:Customizing Monaco.

Getting to My Home
There are a few ways to get to the My Home page: There's a link at the top right next to your user name. There's also a tab on the user masthead when you're on your own user page or talk page. Also, new contributors are directed to My Home immediately after creating a new account.

Logged-in contributors who bookmark the basic URL of the wiki -- wikiname.wikia.com -- will go directly to My Home, instead of stopping off at the main page first. The main page is typically an introduction for readers and new visitors to the wiki. Logged-in contributors returning to the site usually want to see what's new on the wiki, and My Home gives them an overview of the new activity.

Links that go directly to the main page URL (/wiki/Main_Page, or /wiki/Example_Wiki) are not redirected to My Home. Also, people who are not logged in are not redirected to My Home.

If a logged-in contributor prefers to go to the main page through wikiname.wikia.com instead of My Home, there is a preference in Special:Preferences under the Miscellaneous tab.