Help:Growth/Tools/Enable the Homepage

The Homepage is not enabled by default for all users. This page explains how to enable by checking two checkboxes in your preferences.

The following explanation would cover the cases where you're a wiki instructor and want your mentees to have homepage enabled, or if you want to try the homepage for yourself.

Newcomers who have Homepage enabled by default have both checkboxes checked.

Enable the Homepage
To enable the Homepage, go to your 1>Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal|user preferences, in the  tab.

There, check on the "" section, for the "" checkbox. Check this to enable the homepage.

Enabling the Homepage adds a new tab close to the user page and user talk page tabs. This new tab is labelled "".

Make the Home page as default
Enabling the Homepage shows another checkbox in Preferences, called "". Checking this checkbox will make your username in top right go directly to Special:Homepage rather than to your user page.

The target of your username will not change for anyone else than you, and it will not take effect anywhere else.