Pages, forums and naming

I've read the documentation section and try as I might I simply cannot wrap my head around how to properly set up the forums for the wiki. I own a large MMO site that uses a login bridge to MediaWiki (currently the 14th largest private wiki anywhere) and the difference to me is the use of forums for storage. I think this is a terrific product and I will eventually update my large site to Vault. I feel lost with Vault on this new project but I'm sure I can get comfortable after using this product more.

I have a wiki category forum which currently only contains one forum, "Default". I am going to create new "parent" forums for templates, books, etc etc in my wiki forum category. I believe I should be creating "parents" in the "wiki" forum category for the other namespaces I intend to use, but I'm not sure if these should be subs of "default" or not. What is the ideal setup for the wiki forums structure-wise?

I am also a little murky on how I can have a "Main Page" like I have on Mediawiki and like I saw on this site. The title of the page should be "Main Page" not "Default:Main Page" like I have now. What am I screwing up? I want to just have a "wiki/Main_Page".

I will continue to read the documentation, but these answers would take me far into the initial setup.

Thank you!!

At least for now, Templates, Books, etc should NOT be subs of Default. Ideally they would be the same level as default - in the same parent forum that Default is in.

To have a main index page, you have to use the VaultWiki: Server Settings option to Replace the Wiki Tab with URL.
To have a main page for each wiki forum, follow these instructions: Replacing the Forum View

To get rid of the Default prefix in front of Main Page, make sure that showing the Prefix is ticked off for Default in the Namespace Manager.

As for migrating a large wiki in the future (if you mean w101), you will want to do a LOT of test imports first and you'll probably need to add custom handlers for any MediaWiki extensions you currently use. I trust you'll let us know when you're ready to do this, but for a very large wiki, I definitely recommend trying to wait for the new release (VaultWiki 4), to avoid having to put your site through 2 intensive migrations.

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Originally Posted by pegasus

At least for now, Templates, Books, etc should NOT be subs of Default. Ideally they would be the same level as default - in the same parent forum that Default is in.

To have a main index page, you have to use the VaultWiki: Server Settings option to Replace the Wiki Tab with URL.
To have a main page for each wiki forum, follow these instructions: Replacing the Forum View

To get rid of the Default prefix in front of Main Page, make sure that showing the Prefix is ticked off for Default in the Namespace Manager.

As for migrating a large wiki in the future (if you mean w101), you will want to do a LOT of test imports first and you'll probably need to add custom handlers for any MediaWiki extensions you currently use. I trust you'll let us know when you're ready to do this, but for a very large wiki, I definitely recommend trying to wait for the new release (VaultWiki 4), to avoid having to put your site through 2 intensive migrations.

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Thank you very very much. :)

No worries on me being in a rush to migrate. It will be a while before I'm ready to do it for real (and move to vb4). I may start to play around with a copy of the site and will be in touch when I do. :)