Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5693502-20150712150504/@comment-452-20150712172424

Re: Special:BlankPage
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page
 * http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/
 * It is an Easter Egg, the fact that some custom scripts use it does not speak to it's purpose.
 * The Release notes for mediawiki 1.3 state: "Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc."
 * https://github.com/Wikia/app/blob/dev/includes/specials/SpecialBlankpage.php
 * Incidentally, RansomTime was the one who changed it from "intentionally" to "unintentionally".

Re: Special:Oversight
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight