User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: February 1, 2016/@comment-25523075-20160202140213/@comment-1251315-20160203121414

Special:SpecialPages is a core part of MediaWiki. That's never gonna get removed any time soon. I use it all the time and have no intent of using keyboard shortcuts (beyond the obvious Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V), so if Wikia removed access to S:SP, then a lot of users would be upset and annoyed.