Surprisingly enough, I have a problem finding a solution to this—I want to disable / remove the Random page link from a MediaWiki wiki on the left bar.
I think it is hard to find the answer on Google because "Random page" appears in many wikis as the actual link for Random page, but maybe I am googling for the wrong thing.
I couldn't find anything in LocalSettings.php
either.
Best Answer
The code for the sidebar is in the page
MediaWiki:Sidebar
. It should be enough to remove the line** randompage-url|randompage
from there. You need administrative privileges to edit that page.Note that this does not actually disable the “Random page” feature (that's still accessible from
Special:Random
), it just removes the link from the sidebar. If you want to remove it altogether, you can add the following code to your LocalSettings.php: