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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.

Contents

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.
See also: m:SpecialPages grouped into categorieshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpecialPages_grouped_into_categories which is a modification that can sort the SpecialPages into categories
All pages 
Special:Allpages : Lists 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:
From MediaWiki 1.5 one can also select all namespaces except a specified one. Namespace prefixes are given, but the sort key is the page name without prefix.
All pages with prefix 
Special:Prefixindex : Lists all pages of a specified namespace beginning with a given prefix. Useful to find subpages, for example: Special:PrefixIndex/User:Example.
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
Captcha
Special:Captcha on projects supporting this feature. Shows "Captcha help."
Categories 
Special:Categories : shows the number of members, see also Help:DPL.
CategoryTree 
Special:CategoryTree : displays categories in tree structure.
Cross-namespace links 
Special:CrossNamespaceLinks : provides a list of links from a page in the main namespace to a page in other namespaces (except for Special, Talk, Meta and Template namespaces), which are not advisable to use.
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.
Expand templates
Special:ExpandTemplates (extension, enabled on Wikimedia sites): Provides an input box to enter wikitext, and another one to enter a page name, and produces expanded wikitext, i.e., templates, parser functions and variables are expanded recursively; variables depending on page name are expanded based on the supplied page name. See also mw:Extension:ExpandTemplates.
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.
External links
Special:Linksearch, see Help:Linksearch
File path 
Special:Filepath : returns the complete path for a file.
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 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.
Most linked-to templates 
Special:Mostlinkedtemplates : lists templates for which the number of pages in which the template is transcluded is largest, not counting transclusions through redirects; how many are listed depends on the settings; e.g. on w:en: 1000 (currently: templates transcluded in more than 1832 pages)
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
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 images 
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
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. See Help:What links here.

Restricted special pages

Following pages are only accessible by sysops, bureaucrats, or stewards.

[clarify] 
Special:Oversight : see Special:Listusers.

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.
Mass delete 
Special:Nuke (extension) : Mass deletions of pages recently added by a given user or IP.
Restore deleted page 
Special:Undelete : One way to undelete a page.

Bureaucrats only

Make a user into a sysop 
Special:Makesysop :
Make a user into a bot 
Special:Makebot (extension) : See MakeBot.

Developers only

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

Stewards only

Set user rights 
Special:Userrights : Give and remove user access rights (e.g. sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser) on any Wikimedia project.

CheckUsers only

Get user IP 
Special:CheckUser : see Help:CheckUser and Special:Listusers/checkuser.

Special pages currently not enabled on Wikimedia wikis

Arbitration committee election 
Special:ArbComVote : ditto for the finished Arbitration Committee elections.
Popular pages 
Special:Popularpages : The most visited pages. Currently disabled.
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
Wikimedia Board of Trustees election 
Special:Boardvote : Voting software for the now finished elections

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)

It does not seem possible to search by editor for edits of deleted pages. They can only be seen by a sysop with Special:Undelete if the exact page name is known.

There are no logs available on the site for:

  • adding or removing a page from a user's list of page to watch (the user can only view the current state)
  • change of preferences of a user (ditto)
  • viewing a page (except that, if $wgDisableCounters is false, the total number of views of a page is displayed on it)
  • editing and previewing a page without saving
  • applying Special:Expandtemplates
  • applying Special:Export
  • unfinished operations (e.g. an attempted page move)

Miscellaneous

Special pages can be linked to as usual, like Special:Recentchanges. Redirects to Special pages have been disabled because of their complications.

The term in the site language equivalent to English "Special" is used in each project. E.g. "Speciaal" in Dutch, "Spezial" in German, "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "מיוחד:" in Hebrew. These also appear in the URLs. However, the English word "Special" works as alternative in most sites.

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/*.domain.com

In some cases, to specify some aspects the full URL has to be given, like an external link, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes).

Some special pages can be included, such as Newpages, Wantedpages, Allpages, Prefixindex, and Recentchanges.

{{Special:Newpages/5}} gives 5 new pages:


See also


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Wikipedia-specific help

Special page Other versions
Short pages User:Zorglbot/Shortpages
DoubleRedirects Double redirects
Uncategorized Category needed
Uncategorized cats
Long pages
Wanted pages Most wanted
Lonely pages Orphaned articles
Dead-end pages Dead-end pages
Dormant pages Dusty articles
New pages
Cross-namespace links
Broken redirects
Protected pages
See also Maintenance Reports

The box on the right shows links to editable versions of some of these pages, which might be protected and only editable by sysops.

Old Logs

Until Dec 2004
Block log
Deletion log
Protection log
Upload log

See also Wikipedia:Statistics.

The special page Cite on Wikipedia offers bibliographic information for any article (not available on Meta).

This page is a copy of the master help page at Meta (for general help information all Wikimedia projects can use), with two Wikipedia-specific templates inserted. To update the main text, edit the master help page for all projects at m:Help:Special page. For Wikipedia-specific issues, use Template:Ph:Special page (the extra text at the bottom of this page) or Template:Phh:Special page for a Wikipedia-specific lead (text appears at the top of this page). You are welcome to replace the full wikitext of this page with that of the master page at Meta at any time. To view this page in other languages see the master page at Meta.

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