Help:Main page

The Main Page on any wiki is the page that can be accessed by clicking the wiki's logo. Depending on the default language of the wiki, this will be at various titles. For example, "Accueil" on French wikis or "Hauptseite" on German ones. It is also possible to change the title by moving the page and then adjusting MediaWiki:Mainpage or MediaWiki:Sidebar to reflect the new title.

Main page template
You can get an instant main page by typing   on your wiki's home page.

Protection of the Main Page considered harmful
The Main Page should generally remain editable. If you suffer large scale vandalism on your wiki, you might want to consider watching that page more often, or making use of templates to make it harder, though not impossible, to edit. In very very rare cases, the Main Page can be protected. For example, if your wiki is regularly within the top 50 websites in the world and receives millions of hits a day (see Wikipedia), you might have a good reason to lock pages. If you're not quite at that stage, protection will probably do your wiki more harm than good. The Main Page will often be the first page a new user sees, and having it uneditable is off-putting, since it implies some sort of hierarchy among editors. New users may not even realize the site is editable if they only see a locked page, and leave without contributing. Being the Main Page is not, in itself, a reason for protection, so try not to make the common mistake of locking this page unnecessarily.

See also protected pages considered harmful on Meta, and Why featured articles should not be protected by Mark Pellegrini, Wikipedia's Featured Article Director.