Help:Special page

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Template:TopMainMenu 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.

1 Special pages for all users
2 Logs
3 Miscellaneous
4 See also

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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, 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)
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.
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
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.
Logout: Special:Userlogout : Destroys cookie.

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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

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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 http://www.gogotraffic.com/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.