The current title Main Page in the main namespace was created in the default namespace before pages were divided into Wikipedia Portal and so forth and has continued there mainly due to historical inertia Several previous proposals to move the page failed due to rejection or lack of consensus  See previous discussions in archives  April   January   January    February   December   December   May   July   October    October  and  August    Several other Wikimedia projects also use Main Page as the default home page like MetaWiki Commons Wikibooks Wikinews and Wikiquote Some however do not the default home page for Wiktionary is WiktionaryMain Page and the one for MediaWiki is MediaWiki