These messages are created via translation keys, and you can change then by adding a "translation" page to your wiki. a) to find out the keys, e.g. search for them im l10n.xwiki, org. e.g. : http://l10n.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/L10N/Search?application=&name=&… there you can see the key is 'core.footer.creation' and the translation for en is "Created by {0} on {1}" b) to create a "translation page", create a new empty page in your wiki, then go to the object editor and add an an object of type "XWiki.TranslationDocumentClass" and set scope to "Wiki" or "Global" Save the page and then edit the page again in the Wiki editor (or the "source" tab of the WYSIWYG editor) and add one line for each text you want to adapt, e.g. core.footer.creation=Created by MyOrganizationName on {1} Using the same trick for single pages is possible in principle, but then you would have make the translation to be marked as "On Demand" and add some velocity code on the home page to tell that the home page demands this translation. How these translation pages work is documented here http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/InternationalizingApplica… if it is enough to hide the text via CSS, just add a "XWiki.StyleSheetExtension" object on that page and set the usage to "on this page only" this is documented as part of the "skin extension" mechanism: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/SkinExtensionsTutorial#HM…