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I tried to change the title of the main page of a MediaWiki-powered website from "Main Page" to "My Unique Title," via adding this snippet into Wiki-code for the main page.

{{DISPLAYTITLE: My Unique Title}}

However, it does nothing. How do I change the title of the main page of a MediaWiki-powered website?

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If you want to use {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} to change a display title completely (as in, not just different capitalization), you'll need to make a change in LocalSettings.php.

Set [$wgRestrictDisplayTitle][1] to false.

Additionally, if you're looking to change where the main page resides, you can change [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]] to change the default main page users are sent to.

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Try this: your-wiki-address/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage

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