Help:Special page
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For special pages on Wikipedia see the Wikipedia information section. 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.
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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: SpecialPages grouped into categories : Modification which can sort the SpecialPages into categories - 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.
- Most categories
- Special:Mostcategories : Articles with the most categories.
- Most revisions
- Special:Mostrevisions : Articles with the most revisions.
- 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 : 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 : Shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
- 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.
- Mass delete
- Special:Nuke (extension) : Sysop only. Mass deletions of pages recently added by a given user or IP.
- Make a user into a sysop
- Special:Makesysop : Bureaucrat and Steward.
- Make a user into a bot
- Special:Makebot (extension) : Bureaucrat only; see MakeBot.
- Get user IP
- Special:CheckUser : see Help:CheckUser and Special:Listusers/checkuser.
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- Usage
- This template asserts the message (unclear) when placed without an argument.
- Given an parameter {{{1}}}, the template will assert a message (to other editors, about what you find is unclear...) that is visible when the mouse cursor hovers over the marker.
- Such a {{{1}}} message should be a terse description of what is unclear or confusing for the editors following along, who may be able to clear the deficiency.
This is an updated version of the similar on Meta, this template marks unclear Meta help (= MediaWiki handbook) details.</noinclude> : 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.
- Userrights
- Special:Userrights : Steward 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 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:
or prompt for the target if it was not supplied yet; with target the link is e.g.
- Special pages requiring a target user:
- Special page allowing a starting page:
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- 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://en.wikipedia.org/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.
- Some special pages can be included, such as Newpages, Wantedpages, Allpages, Prefixindex, and Recentchanges.
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- {{Special:Newpages/5}} gives 5 new pages:
- 15:34, 3 April 2007 Badger army ammunition plant (hist) [197 bytes] Smchase (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with ''''The Badger Army Ammunition Plant''' is located in BarabooSauk County, Wisconsin, United States. ==History== ==Geography== =...')
- 15:34, 3 April 2007 Earthcott (hist) [195 bytes] Markptaylor (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'Earthcott is a hamlet in South Gloucestershire, on the B4059 road between the A38 road and Yate. It has a postbox and a small village green, but no other services....')
- 15:32, 3 April 2007 Solace Systems (hist) [342 bytes] Tzoght (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'Founded in 2001, Solace Systems has become a leading provider of content-aware network equipment for service providers, content providers and enterprises globally. ...')
- 15:32, 3 April 2007 John R. Steele CB (former DG Transport, European Commission) (hist) [3,608 bytes] Christophklenner (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with ''''John Roderic Steele''' is a renowned expert in international and European Union transport policy. Born in Wakefield, England on February 22, 1929, he was...')
- 15:32, 3 April 2007 British Best All-Rounder (hist) [973 bytes] Paul W (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'The '''British Best All-Rounder''' (BBAR) competition, organised by Cycling Time Trials, is a British cycle racing...')
See also
- Help:Namespace#Special namespace
- Help:Alphabetic order used by Special:Allpages among others
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Wikipedia-specific help
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).
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