Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-45171933-20200522222638/@comment-1038387-20200524190041

Readible wrote: Tupka217 wrote:

See my correction above. A MediaWiki page is a page that influences the system, and editing them is limited. These are project pages. It's "Wiki Name:Page Name". You can create them just like any other page, just make the page name "Project: Page Name". What actually is the difference between a normal and Project page then?

Is it just better protected..? What about normal pages with protection?

Also, does a Project page display like other pages, e.g. in wiki search?

Sorry, many questions. What did you mean by "influences the system"?

Project pages are mainly used for policies and stuff, administration topics that don't really have a place in the mainspace, which should be reserved for the topic's encyclopedic database.

"Influencing the system" is, now that I think of it, vague. With these pages, you can change what certain things say, like Wiki-navigation, the licenses you see upon uploading or the welcome message. It's the technical mainspace, and you can't really create pages in it willy nilly.