Help:Special pages

Special pages are pages that are created by the software on demand. They are located in their own namespace Special: and are not editable directly as other pages.

Some special pages depend on the preferences that have been set by a user, e.g. the number of titles which is displayed on a user's watchlist.

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[edit] Special pages for all users

All of the below linked Special pages produce content particular to whatever wiki you are viewing this document on. If you are looking for a list of the available Special pages from a given wiki, use its Special:Specialpages page to get a list, or try viewing the page on this wiki, then editing your web address to change the server name, leaving the page portion intact.

Special pages 
Special:Specialpages : A list of all special pages for all users.
All pages 
Special:Allpages : all pages in a specified namespace in ASCII order, including redirects (to distinguish redirects, one can set ".allpagesredirect" class in the style sheets); on Wikimedia sometimes temporarily disabled. Both a namespace and a starting page can be specified:
All pages with prefix 
Special:Prefixindex; if the last character of the prefix is a space or underscore it is ignored. One of many important applications is to find subpages with "fullpagename/".
Articles with the fewest revisions
Special:Fewestrevisions
Articles with the most categories
Special:Mostcategories : lists articles from whose number of categories is largest.
Articles with the most revisions
Special:Mostrevisions : Articles with the most revisions.
Blocked IP addresses and usernames 
Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames
Book sources 
Special:Booksources : ISBN Book Sources
Broken redirects 
Special:BrokenRedirects
Categories 
Special:Categories : shows a list of categories sorted by the number of members
Confirm my email address
Special:Confirmemail
Dead-end pages 
Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links.
Disambiguation pages 
Special:Disambiguations : shows pages that link to a disambiguation page, which should link to the appropriate topic instead. A disambiguation page is defined as a page on which a disambiguation template is transcluded; a disambiguation template is defined as a template linked from MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage.
Double redirects 
Special:DoubleRedirects : lists redirects that redirect to another redirects. May contain false positives.
Export pages 
Special:Export : Produces an XML file containing the wikitext and metadata of either the current version only, or all revisions, of one or more pages, specified in the form of a list; the XML file is in the format required for Special:Import; exporting is typically done either in preparation of applying the latter at another MediaWiki project, or for searching within old page revisions. See Help:Export.
Files 
Special:Imagelist : List of images and other files uploaded that can be sorted by size or date.
Gallery of new files 
Special:Newimages
Log in / create account 
Special:Userlogin : Creates new login cookie.
Logout 
Special:Userlogout : Destroys cookie, see also the privacy policy.
Logs 
Special:Log : Combined display of various logs. See also below.
Long pages 
Special:Longpages - pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size
MIME search 
Special:MIMEsearch : filters files for its MIME-type.
Most linked-to categories 
Special:Mostlinkedcategories : lists categories from whose number of pages contained is largest.
Most linked-to images 
Special:Mostimages : lists images from whose number of pages linked is largest.
Most linked-to pages 
Special:Mostlinked : lists pages from whose number of pages linked is largest.
My page 
Special:Mypage : Link to the user page of the user who follows it.
My talk page 
Special:Mytalk : Link to the talk page of the user who follows it.
My watchlist 
Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)
New pages 
Special:Newpages : Newest pages with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first edit summary, in reverse order of creation.
Oldest pages 
Special:Ancientpages - pages in the main namespace, with date and time of last edit, in order of last edit.
Orphaned pages 
Special:Lonelypages : Orphaned articles i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki.
Pages without language links 
Special:Withoutinterwiki
Popular pages 
Special:Popularpages : The most visited pages. Currently disabled.
Preferences 
Special:Preferences : Select preferences to customise the appearance and behaviour of the software. For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family. See Help:Preferences.
Protected pages 
Special:Protectedpages
Random page 
Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page from the main namespace which is not a redirect. Other namespaces can be specified as a parameter, e. g.: Special:Randompage/Talk, Special:Random/Template.
Random redirect 
Special:Randomredirect : redirects to a random redirect pages.
Recent changes 
Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits in the project. See Help:Recent changes.
Related changes 
Special:Recentchangeslinked : It works only if the target is specified. See Help:Related changes.
Redirects 
Special:Listredirects : lists all redirects.
Search 
Special:Search
Short pages 
Special:Shortpages - pages in the main namespace, with size (of the wikitext excluding that of templates used) in bytes, in order of increasing size
Statistics 
Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users
System messages 
Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
Uncategorized categories 
Special:Uncategorizedcategories
Uncategorized pages 
Special:Uncategorizedimages : Images without category tags (note that after adding a tag to a page refreshing this page does not immediately reflects the change)
Uncategorized pages 
Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags (ditto)
Uncategorized templates 
Special:Uncategorizedtemplates : Templates without category tags (ditto)
Unused categories 
Special:Unusedcategories
Unused files 
Special:Unusedimages
Unused templates 
Special:Unusedtemplates - templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution))
Upload file 
Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki.
User contributions 
Special:Contributions : Requires a target user: e. g. Special:Contributions/Jimbo Wales
Users 
Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users. There also is Special:Listadmins, which is a redirect toSpecial:Listusers/Sysop. For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family.
Version 
Special:Version : Shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
Wanted categories 
Special:Wantedcategories : Categories that have articles assigned to them, but haven't had a page made for them
Wanted pages 
Special:Wantedpages : Articles which have been requested / most wanted, specifically those that have at least 2 incoming links, but do not exist.
Wiki matrix 
Special:SiteMatrix : list of all projects
What links here 
Special:Whatlinkshere : It works only if the target is specified.

[edit] All sysops

Block user 
Special:Blockip : Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
Import pages 
Special:Import : Imports the wikitext and metadata of one or more revisions of one or more pages by uploading an XML file in the format produced by Special:Export (typically after applying the latter at another MediaWiki project). See Help:Import.
Restore deleted page 
Special:Undelete : One way to undelete a page.
Set user rights 
Special:Userrights : Give and remove user access rights (e.g. sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser) on any Wikimedia project.

[edit] Developers only

Lock database 
Special:Lockdb : Puts the wiki in read only mode.
Unlock database 
Special:Unlockdb: Returns the wiki to read/write mode.

[edit] Logs

Special:Log - combined display of various logs. You can narrow down the view by:

  • selecting a log type, including:
  • entering the full name without prefix of the acting user (usual case-sensitivity)
  • entering the full name of the affected page (usual case-sensitivity) e.g. "Image:Map South Holland.png"), or the full name including prefix of the affected user (in the case of blocking, setting user rights, setting bot status, and user creation) or without prefix (in the case of renaming a user)
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