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<languages />
{{SettingSummary
|name=Sitename
|version_min=pre 1.1.0
|section=General Settings
|range=(<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">string</span>)
|default=<syntaxhighlight lang="php" inline>'MediaWiki'</syntaxhighlight><br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="php" inline>'Wikipedia'</syntaxhighlight> (<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">up to v1.2.0</span>)
|summary=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The name of the site.</span>
}}
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
== Details ==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
This is the name of the site as displayed throughout the site.
</div>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This setting should ''always'' be set from {{ll|Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php}}.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The MediaWiki installer usually handles this – the value provided during initial setup is included in <code>LocalSettings.php</code> once the setup process is completed successfully.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This name gets included many times throughout the system.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For instance, the Wikipedia tagline '''From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.''' makes use of this setting.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">It is mainly used through the [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Magic words|magic word]] "<code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>".</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If '''{{ll|Manual:$wgMetaNamespace|$wgMetaNamespace}}''' (the "project" namespace) is not set, it will be automatically initialized to this value.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Make sure the name is appropriately formatted with valid title characters, etc.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Also, it cannot be empty, contain the # character, or be the string "MediaWiki".</span><ref>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Other namespace names are ''technically'' possible, but will usually make the interface behave in unexpected ways when a page in the project namespace is visited (such as "no such user/file/special page found"-type messages).</span>
</ref>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If you need to supply different grammatical forms for the site name, use {{ll|Manual:$wgGrammarForms|$wgGrammarForms}} in your LocalSettings.php, for example for Polish:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgSitename = "Encyklopedia";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['D.lp'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedii";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['C.lp'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedii";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['B.lp'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedię";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['N.lp'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedią";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['MS.lp'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedii";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['W.lp'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedio";

$wgGrammarForms['pl']['M.lm'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedie";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['D.lm'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedie";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['C.lm'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopediom";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['B.lm'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedie";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['N.lm'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopediami";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['MS.lm'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopediach";
$wgGrammarForms['pl']['W.lm'][$wgSitename] = "Encyklopedie";
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
This can be quickly checked using [[MediaWiki:Userlogin-joinproject]] and [[MediaWiki:Createacct-benefit-heading]] messages.
</div>

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<references />

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
== See also ==
</div>
* {{ll|Manual:$wgMetaNamespace|$wgMetaNamespace}}
* <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The <code>[[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic words#SITENAME|<nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki>]]</code> magic word.</span>
* [[Change the name of the wiki]]