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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.
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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: m: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:
- Special:Allpages/Template - main namespace, from "Template"
- Special:Allpages/Template: - Template namespace, from start
- Special:Allpages/Template:T - Template namespace, from "T"
- 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:
- Block log - blocks and unblocks
- Deletion log - deleted and undeleted pages
- Protection log - protected and unprotected pages
- Upload log - list of images uploaded
- 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:
or prompt for the target if it was not supplied yet; with target the link is e.g.
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:
- 10:46, 11 June 2008 Yaru, Pakistan (hist) [387 bytes] Pahari Sahib (Talk | contribs) (Created stub)
- 10:46, 11 June 2008 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup 2009 (hist) [1,040 bytes] Druryfire (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{current sport}} {{Infobox International Football Competition | tourney_name = | year = 2009 | othertitles = | image = | size = | caption = | country = India |...')
- 10:46, 11 June 2008 Katie Hodson-Thomas (hist) [920 bytes] Hughesdarren (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with ''''Katina "Katie" Hodson-Thomas''' was born April 28, 1957 in Adelaide, South Australia in South Australia. She has been a [[Liberal Party of Austra...')
- 10:45, 11 June 2008 Mate Matcher (hist) [150 bytes] Ayaz360 (Talk | contribs) (Added new page)
- 10:45, 11 June 2008 Qareh Bulaq (hist) [4,086 bytes] Blofeld of SPECTRE (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Settlement <!--See the Table at Infobox Settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info ----------------> |official_name = {{subs...')
See also
- Help:Namespace#Special namespace
- Help:Alphabetic order used by Special:Allpages among others
- mw:Writing a new special page
- m:Category:Special page extensions
- mw:Category:Special page extensions
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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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