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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.
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; an automatic list is at Special:Listusers/Sysop.
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 : Orphaned articles i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki.
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 date and time of last edit, in order of last edit.
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/".
Find external links
Special:Linksearch, see Help:Linksearch.
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 Help: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.
ExpandTemplates
Special:ExpandTemplates (extension, enabled on Wikimedia sites): Provides an input box to enter wikitext, and another one to enter a pagename, and produces expanded wikitext, i.e., templates, parser functions and variables are expanded recursively; variables depending on pagename are expanded based on the supplied pagename. See also mw:Extension:ExpandTemplates.
Links to disambiguation pages
Special:Disambiguations - list of pages linked to a disambiguation page, each with the link target; 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.

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 only.
Make a user into a bot 
Special:Makebot (extension) : Bureaucrat only; see MakeBot.
Set user rights 
Special:Userrights : Stewards only. Give and remove user access rights (e.g. sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser) on any Wikimedia project.
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. Returns the wiki to read/write mode.

Special pages currently not enabled on Wikimedia wikis

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 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 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

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

Special:Random/Template
  • 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.
{{Special:Newpages/5}} gives 5 new pages:


  1. 01:14, 9 January 2009 ‎Jinxs (hist) ‎[174,786 bytes] ‎Reallocate (Talk | contribs) (unruly)
  2. 00:51, 9 January 2009 ‎Slavic (hist) ‎[175,072 bytes] ‎142.150.238.13 (Talk) (sleets)
  3. 00:09, 9 January 2009 ‎Bunglers (hist) ‎[175,042 bytes] ‎128.31.1.13 (Talk) (throwbacks)
  4. 21:17, 8 January 2009 ‎Theodoras (hist) ‎[174,870 bytes] ‎128.208.4.197 (Talk) (Napoleon)
  5. 20:22, 8 January 2009 ‎Dittos (hist) ‎[174,786 bytes] ‎Bogs (Talk | contribs) (stuff)

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
New pages
Cross-namespace links
Broken redirects
Protected pages
See also Maintenance Reports Template:Edi

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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