Help:Special pages

A special page is a part of the MediaWiki software that performs a specific function, and always begins with the prefix "Special:".

The "Special pages" link in the toolbox in the sidebar leads to Special:Specialpages, which lists all available functions in alphabetical order.

You can include some of these in other pages. See Help:Special page inclusion.

Special pages for all users

 * Active user list : Special:Activeusers : A list of people who have edited this wiki. (Help:Active users)
 * Login : Special:Userlogin : Log in or create a new account.
 * Logout : Special:Userlogout : Log out of your account.
 * Preferences : Special:Preferences : Set your user preferences. (Preferences help)
 * My watchlist : Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)
 * Recent changes : Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits on this wiki. (Recent changes help)
 * Upload file : Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki. (Upload help)
 * Image list : Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date
 * New image gallery: Special:Newimages : The most recently uploaded images displayed in a gallery format
 * User list : Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users.
 * Admins list : Special:Listadmins : A list of all administrators
 * Statistics : Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users
 * Random page : Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page
 * Orphaned pages : Special:Lonelypages : Articles not linked to from any other page on the wiki
 * Uncategorized pages : Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags
 * Uncategorized categories : Special:Uncategorizedcategories : Categories without category tags
 * Unused files : Special:Unusedimages : Images that do not appear on any page.
 * Wanted pages : Special:Wantedpages : Most internally-linked to articles that do not yet exist
 * Short pages : Special:Shortpages
 * Long pages : Special:Longpages
 * New pages : Special:Newpages
 * Oldest pages : Special:Ancientpages
 * Dead-end pages : Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links.
 * All pages : Special:Allpages : A list of every page on the wiki
 * List of blocked IP addresses and usernames : Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames
 * Book sources : Special:Booksources : Used when an ISBN is linked to on a page
 * Categories : Special:Categories : See Help:Category
 * Export pages : Special:Export : Exports the source of individual wiki pages, optionally with their histories, in a thin XML wrapper which includes metadata (time, etc).
 * Version : Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running
 * All system messages : Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
 * New image gallery : Special:Newimages : Thumbnails of newly uploaded images.
 * Logs : Special:Log : Logs of deletion, protection, blocking, image uploads and user rights settings

Restricted special pages

 * Block user : Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
 * Restore deleted page : Special:Undelete : Sysop only. One way to undelete a page.
 * Make a user into a sysop : Special:Makesysop : Bureaucrat only.
 * Lock database : Special:Lockdb : Staff only. Puts the wiki in read only mode.
 * Unlock database : Special:Unlockdb : Staff only. Puts the wiki in read/write mode.

Logs

 * Block log - blocks and unblocks
 * Deletion log - deleted and undeleted pages
 * Protection log - protected and unprotected pages
 * Upload log - list of images uploaded