Forum:Changing the name of a wiki

The Pet Diabetes Wiki has an address, petdiabetes.wikia.com, which is great and fine. But I'd like to change its other name (that shows up in Google searches) to "Pet Diabetes Wiki", to match with all the publicity it's getting. Right now that name is, confusingly "Diabetes in Pets". Which is my own fault, but I'd like to fix it. The URL is fine as is.

Can it be done? What will break? Thanks in advance!


 * Your Site title is also the name of your Project: namespace, and changing it is a bit of an undertaking. What you could probably do is just change the html tag via editing w:c:petdiabetes:MediaWiki:Pagetitle, replacing with whatever you want to be known as in the browser title bar. That should make the Google headers change appropriately (after the next crawl). --Splarka (talk) 11:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Splarka. I have now done that, though it didn't update the page title  that I can see.   Probably some caching thing.  Anyway please let me know if I screwed it up.   I'll wait a few days and check the Google results again.  --Steve and Jock on http://petdiabetes.wikia.com/


 * It shows up changed for me. If it doesn't show in your browser, view the page source and look for the &lt;title> tag. --Splarka (talk) 00:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)


 * For caching things, if it's MediaWiki, just hit edit then change edit to purge in the address bar. And for your browser (The Majority of the time), Either a force reload or deletion of the cache works. I find that in firefox ( CTRL + R ) is the best way to bypass cache issues. Especialy when you change the style. CTRL+R on the .css articlepage you just changed works wonders. Dantman (Talk) 02:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Is it really that involved to change the site name (not just the page title)? I had been assuming it wasn't, after reading Forum:Change_of_wikia_title_and_no_url_adress. I ask because I'm interested in a potential retitle of a different wikia (including a change to the name of its Project namespace, which only has a few articles). --Rezyk 08:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The hard part is the waiting, between submitting the request it to the techs and the techs having time to do it. --Splarka (talk) 12:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)