Help:Special pages



Special pages are useful tools and reports that come with the MediaWiki software and help with wiki management. Special pages always begin with the prefix "Special:".

How to find special pages

 * You can see a list of special pages available by visiting Special:SpecialPages on your wiki.
 * If you're an admin on the wiki, you can find this in the Admin Dashboard under the "Advanced" Tab.
 * If you want to create a shortcut to this list, you can add it to your toolbar by clicking "Customize" and adding "Special pages" to your list.

A List of special pages
Below is a list of options in Special:SpecialPages, color coded by access levels:
 * Black—Available to anyone
 * Green —Available to logged in users
 * Red —Available to admins

If a special page isn't available to a user, it will generally not display on their view of Special:SpecialPages.

Maintenance reports

 * Broken redirects
 * Special:BrokenRedirects—List of pages whose target article has been deleted (Help:Redirect)


 * Dead-end pages
 * Special:DeadendPages—Pages without any outgoing links.


 * Double redirects
 * Special:DoubleRedirects—List of pages that redirect to another redirect page (Help:Redirect)


 * Long pages
 * Special:LongPages—Pages that contain the most characters in descending order


 * Oldest pages
 * Special:AncientPages—Lists the oldest pages on a wiki


 * Orphaned pages
 * Special:LonelyPages—Articles not linked to or from any other page on the wiki


 * Pages with the fewest revisions
 * Special:FewestRevisions—Pages with the least amount of edits


 * Pages without language links
 * Special:WithoutInterwiki—Pages that do not link to any alternate language counterparts (Help:Interlanguage links)


 * Protected pages
 * Special:ProtectedPages—List pages that cannot be edited by non-admins or non-autoconfirmed users (Help:Page protection)


 * Protected titles
 * Special:ProtectedTitles—Pages that have been protected from creation from non-admins (Help:Page protection)


 * Short pages
 * Special:ShortPages—Pages that contain the fewest characters in ascending order


 * Tags Report
 * Special:TagsReport—Lists all of the specific tags in alphabetical order along with how many pages for each tag


 * Uncategorized categories
 * Special:UncategorizedCategories—Categories without category tags (Help:Category)


 * Uncategorized pages
 * Special:UncategorizedPages—Pages without category tags (Help:Category)


 * Uncategorized photos
 * Special:UncategorizedImages—Images without category tags (Help:Category)


 * Uncategorized templates
 * Special:UncategorizedTemplates—Templates without category tags (Help:Category)


 * Unused categories
 * Special:UnusedCategories displays categories that have not been used


 * Unused photos
 * Special:UnusedImages—Images that do not appear on any page (Help:Photos)


 * Unused templates
 * Special:UnusedTemplates—Templates that are not included in any page (Help:Templates)


 * Unused videos
 * Special:UnusedVideos—Videos that do not appear on any page (Help:Videos)


 * Unwatched pages
 * Special:UnwatchedPages—Pages that are not on any user's watchlist


 * Wanted categories
 * Special:WantedCategories—Pages that use a category that has not been created yet (Help:Category)


 * Wanted pages
 * Special:WantedPages—Most internally linked-to articles that do not yet exist


 * Wanted photos
 * Special:WantedFiles—Most internally linked-to files (not just images) that do not yet exist


 * Pages without images
 * Special:Withoutimages—List of pages without images on them.

List of pages

 * All pages
 * Special:AllPages—A list of every page on the wiki


 * All pages with prefix
 * Special:PrefixIndex Displays all namespaces within the wiki, along with a search box


 * Categories list
 * Special:Categories—List of categories


 * Templates list
 * Special:Templates—List of templates


 * Category tree
 * Special:CategoryTree—Use a category name to see its contents as a tree structure (Help:Category)


 * Disambiguation pages.
 * Special:Disambiguations—List pages marked as disambiguations (Help:Glossary)


 * Redirects list
 * Special:ListRedirects—List of redirects on a wiki (Help:Redirect)

Users and rights

 * Block user
 * Special:Block—Block a user or IP address.


 * Unblock user
 * Special:Unblock—Unblock a user or IP address.


 * Blocked IP addresses and usernames
 * Special:BlockList—Blocked IPs and usernames (Help:Blocking)


 * Contributions
 * Special:Contributions—List of contributions of anonymous or logged-in users (Help:User contributions)


 * Deleted contributions
 * Special:DeletedContributions—View a user's or IP address's edits that have been deleted (Help:Deletion)


 * Edit count
 * Special:EditCount—Edit tally broken down by namespaces locally and globally (Help:Edit count)


 * User group rights
 * Special:ListGroupRights—List of rights associated with each user group


 * User rights management
 * Special:UserRights—Use to manage user rights of users.


 * Users list
 * Special:ListUsers—List of people who have edited this wiki. You can also narrow it down to view specific user groups with a specific edit. threshold. This tool also has some aliases that will immediately narrow down the scope of the page. (Help:ListUsers)
 * Special:ListAdmins—Only sysops are returned by default.
 * Special:ListStaff—Only staff members are returned by default.
 * Special:ListVSTF—Only VSTF members are returned by default.
 * Special:ListBots—Only bots are returned by default.
 * Special:ListHelpers—Only helpers members are returned by default.

Account management and settings

 * Sign Up
 * Special:UserSignup―Redirects to the page for signing up to Fandom


 * Change password
 * Special:ChangePassword—Change the password associated with your user account


 * Change email
 * Special:ChangeEmail—Change the email address associated with your user account


 * Preferences
 * Special:Preferences—Set your user preferences


 * Followed Pages
 * Special:Following—A list of pages you are following on that wiki


 * Edit Watchlist
 * Special:EditWatchlist—Edit your list of watched pages

Recent changes and logs

 * Logs (extended list)
 * Special:Log—Logs of deletion, protection, blocking, image uploads and user rights settings


 * New pages
 * Special:NewPages—List of new pages on a wiki


 * New photos on this wiki
 * Special:NewFiles—List of photos on a wiki sorted by newest to oldest


 * Recent changes
 * Special:RecentChanges—The latest edits on a wiki (Help:Recent changes)

or to members of a specified category
 * Related changes
 * Special:RecentChangesLinked—Changes made recently to pages linked from a specified page


 * Valid change tags
 * Special:Tags—A list of the tags that MediaWiki may mark an edit with, and their meaning


 * Watchlist
 * Special:Watchlist—Show the pages you are following

Media reports and uploads

 * Duplicate photos search
 * Special:FileDuplicateSearch—Locate duplicate files based on filename


 * File list
 * Special:ListFiles—List of files uploaded that can be sorted by size or date


 * MIME search
 * Special:MIMESearch—Enables the filtering of files for its MIME-type


 * Upload multiple files
 * Special:MultipleUpload—Upload up to 10 files to the wiki (Help:Multiple uploads)


 * Upload file
 * Special:Upload—Upload a file to the wiki


 * Upload videos
 * Special:WikiaVideoAdd—Upload a video to the wiki

Wiki data and tools

 * Statistics
 * Special:Statistics—Total number of pages and users


 * System messages
 * Special:AllMessages—Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace (Help:System messages)


 * Version
 * Special:Version—The version of the software the site is currently running. Also displayed 'installed' extensions


 * Wiki Statistics
 * Special:Insights—Displays monthly statistics of active users, edits, uploads, and other useful data

Redirecting special pages

 * External links search
 * Special:LinkSearch—Links on pages that take readers outside of the wiki


 * Random page
 * Special:RandomPage—Redirects to a random page


 * Random redirect
 * Special:RandomRedirect—Randomly taken to a redirecting page (Help:Redirect)


 * Search
 * Special:Search—Search the wiki (Help:Searching)


 * Link search
 * Special:LinkSearch—Searches through all external links on the wiki


 * Random page in category
 * Special:RandomInCategory—Generates a random page limited to the named category


 * Diff view
 * Special:Diff—Links to a specific diff on the wiki. Must be used with supplied diff ID as a subpage
 * Example: Special:Diff/1 or Special:Diff/1/2


 * Permanent link
 * Special:PermanentLink—Links to an old revision of a page. Must be used with supplied old revision ID as a subpage
 * Example: Special:PermanentLink/1


 * File path
 * Special:FilePath—Returns the complete path for a file


 * Your user page
 * Special:Mypage—Redirects to your user page


 * Your talk page
 * Special:Mytalk—Redirects to your talk page or message wall


 * Your contributions
 * Special:Mycontributions—Redirects to your contributions page


 * Your uploads
 * Special:Myuploads—Redirects to the page with your uploads

High use pages

 * Most linked-to categories
 * Special:MostLinkedCategories—Categories that have the most links to them in descending order


 * Most linked-to pages
 * Special:MostLinked—Pages that have the most links to them in descending order


 * Most linked-to photos
 * Special:MostImages—Images that have the most links to them in descending order


 * Most linked-to templates
 * Special:MostLinkedTemplates—Templates that have the most links to them in descending order


 * Most popular categories
 * Special:Mostpopularcategories—List of the most popular categories


 * Pages with the most categories
 * Special:MostCategories—List of pages with the most categories in descending order


 * Pages with the most revisions
 * Special:MostRevisions—List of pages with the large number of edits in descending order

Page tools

 * Create a new page
 * Special:CreatePage—Guided process to creating new pages (Help:New page)


 * Export pages
 * Special:Export—Exports the source of individual wiki pages, optionally with their histories, in a thin XML wrapper which includes metadata like time, etc (Help:Exporting pages)


 * Import pages
 * Special:Import—Import pages exported from another wiki in an XML file (Help:Exporting pages)


 * Restore deleted pages
 * Special:Undelete—One way to undelete a page or review deleted revisions of pages


 * What links here
 * Special:WhatLinksHere—Finds all pages that link to an article. Three filters are available to except links, redirects or transclusions from the results. It is not yet possible to except transcluded links.


 * Move page
 * Special:MovePage—Move a page

Fandom pages

 * Contact Fandom
 * Special:Contact—Send a message or inquiry to the Community Team (Help:Contacting Fandom)


 * Create blog
 * Special:CreateBlogPage—Create a new blog post


 * Create blog listing
 * Special:CreateBlogListingPage—Create a new blog listing page to display blog posts from categories


 * Partner feed
 * Special:PartnerFeed—RSS feed for types of wiki actions and content

Other special pages

 * API Explorer
 * Special:ApiExplorer—Displays documentation for the wiki's API


 * Achievements Leaderboard
 * [ Special:Leaderboard]—A ranked list of users by achievement badges


 * Activity feed
 * Special:WikiActivity—A visual feed of edits and communication on the wiki


 * Book sources
 * Special:BookSources—Used when an ISBN is linked to on a page. See Manual:ISBN for more information and right syntax.


 * Community
 * [ Special:Community]―Community Page (enabled by request; not enabled by default on all wikis). Partially editable by admins.


 * Wiki Features
 * [ Special:WikiFeatures] to view


 * Wiki Features
 * [ Special:WikiFeatures] to edit
 * Enable, disable, and give feedback on experimental and optional features


 * Map Editor
 * Special:MapEditor―An editor for Maps.


 * Theme Designer
 * Special:ThemeDesigner―Edit the wiki theme.
 * If user is signed in, it redirects to the main page of the wiki


 * Blank page
 * Special:BlankPage―A blank page. Can be used by JavaScript scripts to insert custom user interface.

Logs

 * Block log - blocks and unblocks (Help:Blocking)
 * Deletion log - deleted and undeleted pages (Help:Deletion)
 * Import log - administrative imports of pages with edit history from other wikis
 * Merge log - list of the most recent merges of one page history into another
 * Move log - list of page moves (Help:Moving pages)
 * User creation log - list of newly created accounts.
 * Protection log - list of page protections and unprotections (Help:Page protection)
 * Upload log - list of images uploaded (Help:Uploading files)
 * User rights log - changes to user rights (Help:User rights)
 * Wiki Features log - changes to wiki features.
 * User avatar log - changes to user avatars.
 * Template classification log - changes to template types.
 * User rename log - list of user renames.

Some extension also add new log types to the wiki (these will only exist if they are enabled at your wiki). Examples:
 * Chat Ban log - list of chat bans.
 * Patrol log - log of patrolled revisions
 * Abuse Filter log - log of changes to abuse filters.

Further help and feedback
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