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

List of pages

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


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


 * Categories list
 * Special:Categories—List of categories (Help:Category)


 * 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. (Help:Blocking)


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


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


 * 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)


 * Preferences
 * Special:Preferences—Set your user preferences (Help:Preferences)


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


 * User rights management
 * Special:UserRights—Use to appoint new admins/bureaucrats or to add/remove rollback users. (Help:User rights)


 * Users list
 * Special:ListUsers—List of people who have edited this wiki (Help:Active users). 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.
 * 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.

Recent changes and logs

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


 * 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 (Help:Newest Pages)


 * 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 (Help:Related changes)
 * Related changes
 * Special:RelatedChanges—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 watching (Help:Watchlist)

Media reports and uploads

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


 * File list
 * Special:ImageList—List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date (Help:Images)


 * File path
 * Special:FilePath—Returns the complete path for a file (Help:Images)


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


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


 * Upload photo
 * Special:Upload—Upload a file to the wiki (Help:Uploading files)

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:WikiStats—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 (Help:Redirect)


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


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

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


 * 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.

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―Help:Community Page


 * Insights
 * Special:Insights―Help:Insights


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


 * Wiki Features
 * Special:WikiFeatures to view


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

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 - protected and unprotected pages (Help:Page protection)
 * Settings log - changes to the default site skin
 * Upload log - list of images uploaded (Help:Uploading files)
 * User rights log - changes to user rights (Help:User rights)

Some extension also add new log types to the wiki (these will only exist if they are enabled at your wiki). Examples:
 * Patrol log - log of patrolled revisions (Help:Recent changes patrol)
 * User Avatar - Logs of uploading/changing of avatars (Blogs)

Further Help & Feedback
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