Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-452-20121213062822/@comment-188432-20121213070537

it depends what you're doing.

I personally think that MediaWiki:Oasis-home should simply be blanked. There's no great need for it to appear, and it creates confusion on our wiki, since there is in fact Tardis:Home. It's not a "real" page name — just a little label. And let's face it, if you can't tell that you're on the Home page of a wiki, you've got bigger problems than whether the word "Home" appears there.

We also do not leave MediaWiki:Mainpage at, since this would be highly ambiguous. It would mean there would be a page at Tardis:Tardis (the main page) and Tardis:TARDIS — as well as Tardis:The Doctor's TARDIS and other specific TARDISes. No, down the path of SITENAME lies madness for us. So we specify a different name that's actually quite useful internationally: Doctor Who Wiki. Since we insist by policy that non-English wikis have a URL of the format "languagecode.doctorwho.wikia.com", every one of our partners has a mainpage (or at least redirection) at links of the format w:c:es.doctorwho:Doctor Who Wiki. Whether go-searching or interwiki linking, it's absolutely clear how to link to the main page of any wiki in the Doctor Who family. And that's a fairly unobjectionable title because all wikis recognise that the name of the show is, properly, "Doctor Who", and "Wiki" is a non-English word that everyone around the globe accepts without translation.

So that's the method that works for us on these two messages. Your mileage may of course vary. But I don't think it's a "no-brainer" of a question, and I also definitely don't think that it's a one-size-fits-all kinda answer.