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Help:Special page

  The namespace "Special:" consists of "special pages". These have no corresponding wikitext; they are created by the software on demand. Some depend on the preferences that have been set, e.g. classic or enhanced Recent Changes, and the number of titles in Recent Changes and the watchlist, etc.

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.
Recent changes 
Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits in the project.
Upload file 
Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki.
Image list 
Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date
New images 
Special:Newimages : Gallery of new files.
User list 
Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users. For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family.
Admins list 
Special:Listadmins : A list of all Administrators, same as Special:Listusers/sysops.
Statistics 
Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users
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, eg: Special:Randompage/Talk.
Orphaned pages 
Special:Lonelypages : Lonely articles.
Uncategorized pages 
Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags (note that after adding a tag to a page refreshing this page does not immediately reflects the change)
Unused images 
Special:Unusedimages
Wanted pages 
Special:Wantedpages : Articles which have been requested / most wanted, specifically those that have at least 2 incoming links, but do not exist.
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
Long pages 
Special:Longpages - pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size
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 creation date and time, in order of creation
Dead-end pages 
Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links.
All pages 
Special:Allpages : all pages in a specified namespace in alphabetical order, including redirects (unfortunately without showing which are redirects); is on Wikimedia sometimes temporarily disabled.
From MediaWiki 1.5 one can also select all namespaces except a specified one; thus, although one cannot have a single list of all pages, one can select a small namespace and use the invert option, to get almost all pages. Namespace prefixes are given, but the sortkey is the pagename without prefix.
All system messages 
Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
Pages starting with a given 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/".
Links to a URL with a given prefix 
Special:Linksearch (works on w:en:, not on Meta): Provides for each link on the wiki project the wiki page name (linked) and the full link target (also as a link). Special characters like colons not supported, leading wildcard * okay; they can represent one or more full domain name components only, e.g. *.ns.nl, *.eu.
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames 
Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames
Book sources 
Special:Booksources : ISBN Book Sources
Categories 
Special:Categories : shows the number of members, see also Help:DPL.
Uncategorized categories 
Special:Uncategorizedcategories
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 and import.
Version 
Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running
Wiki matrix 
Special:SiteMatrix : list of all projects
Captcha
Special:Captcha on projects supporting this feature.
Confirm my email address
Special:Confirmemail
My 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.
My watchlist 
Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)
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.
Login 
Special:Userlogin : Creates new login cookie.
Logout 
Special:Userlogout : Destroys cookie, see also Privacy policy.

Restricted special pages

Block user 
Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
Import pages 
Special:Import : Sysop only. 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:Export and import.
Restore deleted page 
Special:Undelete : Sysop only. One way to undelete a page.
Make a user into a sysop 
Special:Makesysop : Bureaucrat only.
Get user IP 
Special:CheckUser : see Help:CheckUser and Special:Listusers/checkuser.
Template:Unclear 
Special:Oversight : see Special:Listusers.
Lock database 
Special:Lockdb : Developer only. Puts the wiki in read only mode.
Unlock database 
Special:Unlockdb : Developer only. Puts the wiki in read/write mode.
Show process list 
Special:ShowProcesslist : Developer only.

Currently unavailable special pages

SQL query 
Special:Asksql : Sysop only. Database interface for running queries. Currently disabled.
Unicode Converter 
Special:UnicodeConverter : Converts Unicode to HTML entities : Not currently available outside of the test wiki
Popular pages 
Special:Popularpages : The most visited pages. Currently disabled.
Wikimedia Board of Trustees election 
Special:Boardvote : Voting software for the now finished elections
Arbitration committee election 
Special:ArbComVote : ditto for the finished Arbitration Committee elections.

Logs

  • Special:Log - combined display of upload, deletion, protection, blocking, and sysop logs. You can narrow down the view by selecting a log type, the user name (case-sensitive!), or the affected page (usual case-sensitivity, but full name required, e.g. "Image:Map South Holland.png".
  • Block log - blocks and unblocks
  • Deletion log - deleted and undeleted pages
  • Protection log - protected and unprotected pages
  • Upload log - list of images uploaded

Miscellaneous

  • Special pages requiring a target page may give an error message if the target is not supplied:
Special:Recentchangeslinked/Help:Template
Special:Whatlinkshere/Help:Template

or prompt for the target if it was not supplied yet; with target the link is e.g.

Special:Linksearch/*.kennisnet.nl
  • Special pages requiring a target user:
Special:Contributions/Jimbo Wales
  • Special page allowing a starting page:
Special:Allpages/Template (Standard prefixes are ignored, compare Special:Allpages/Template:C and Special:Allpages/Templat:C)
In some cases the full URL has to be given, like an external link, for example http://www.lensovet.net/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes).
  • Redirects to Special pages have been disabled because of their complications.
  • "Special:" in URLs is e.g. "Speciaal" in Dutch, "Spezial" in German, "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "מיוחד:" in Hebrew. See e.g the prefix of "Recentchanges" in the URL of the link to the Recent changes.
  • On a special page the tab labelled with the namespace, in this case "Special Page", oddly links to the Main page.
{{Special:Newpages/5}} gives 5 new pages:

See also

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