Embedding Recent Changes on Main Page on MediaWiki

Question

I am a complete and total newbie with MediaWiki. I would like to find a way to include Recent Changes directly on the Main Page, without having to have the user navigate to the recent changes page. What are my options for this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

One way would be to put

{{Special:RecentChanges}}

in [[Main_Page]].

Answer 2

The News extension (available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News ) is a way to do this very simply, and can be customized so that the entire recent changes page is not displayed. Just install the extension and then adding the

<news/>

tag will include the 10 most recent changes. Parameters to change the number of items shown, exclude minor changes, or format how they are displayed are available on the website linked above.

Answer 3

There is also an extension : Dynamic Article List - which allows you more control over what to display in your list of recent changes.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Socoljam/DynamicArticleList_%28enhanced%29

This is an enhanced version of a MediaWiki extension of the same name. It also provides slightly clearer instructions to install it and get it working.