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The [[Help:Namespace|namespace]] "Special:" consists of '''"special pages"'''. These have no corresponding wikitext; they are [[Help:Creating a page on the fly|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 [[Help:Administration|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 [[m:MediaWiki 1.5|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 [[mediazilla:4845|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. ([[Help:Watching pages|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 [[w:en:HTTP cookie|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]].
;{{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 [[w:en:Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|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".
* [[Special:Log/block|Block log]] - blocks and unblocks
* [[Special:Log/delete|Deletion log]] - deleted and undeleted pages
* [[Special:Log/protect|Protection log]] - protected and unprotected pages
* [[Special:Log/upload|Upload log]] - list of images uploaded
==Miscellaneous==
*Special pages can be linked to as usual, like [[Special:Recentchanges]].
*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 {{SERVER}}/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes).
*[[Help:Redirect|Redirect]]s to Special pages have been disabled because of their complications.
*"Special:" in [[Help:URL|URL]]s 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.
*Some special pages can be included, such as [[Special:Newpages|Newpages]], [[Special:Wantedpages|Wantedpages]], [[Special:Allpages|Allpages]], [[Special:Prefixindex|Prefixindex]], and [[Special:Recentchanges|Recentchanges]].
::<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Special:Newpages]]/5<nowiki>}}</nowiki> gives 5 new pages:
{{Special:Newpages/5}}
==See also==
*[[Help:Namespace#Special namespace]]
*[[Help:Alphabetic order]] used by [[Special:Allpages]] among others
{{h:f|langs=|enname=Special page}}
The [[Help:Namespace|namespace]] "Special:" consists of '''"special pages"'''. These have no corresponding wikitext; they are [[Help:Creating a page on the fly|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 [[Help:Administration|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 [[m:MediaWiki 1.5|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 [[mediazilla:4845|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. ([[Help:Watching pages|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 [[w:en:HTTP cookie|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]].
;{{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 [[w:en:Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|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".
* [[Special:Log/block|Block log]] - blocks and unblocks
* [[Special:Log/delete|Deletion log]] - deleted and undeleted pages
* [[Special:Log/protect|Protection log]] - protected and unprotected pages
* [[Special:Log/upload|Upload log]] - list of images uploaded
==Miscellaneous==
*Special pages can be linked to as usual, like [[Special:Recentchanges]].
*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 {{SERVER}}/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes).
*[[Help:Redirect|Redirect]]s to Special pages have been disabled because of their complications.
*"Special:" in [[Help:URL|URL]]s 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.
*Some special pages can be included, such as [[Special:Newpages|Newpages]], [[Special:Wantedpages|Wantedpages]], [[Special:Allpages|Allpages]], [[Special:Prefixindex|Prefixindex]], and [[Special:Recentchanges|Recentchanges]].
::<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Special:Newpages]]/5<nowiki>}}</nowiki> gives 5 new pages:
{{Special:Newpages/5}}
==See also==
*[[Help:Namespace#Special namespace]]
*[[Help:Alphabetic order]] used by [[Special:Allpages]] among others
{{h:f|langs=|enname=Special page}}
