Help:Special pages

The Special Pages page.

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.

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 or doesn't exist. (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 images

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

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:UncategorizedFiles—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:UnusedFiles—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.

Wanted templates

Special:WantedTemplates—Most internally linked-to templates 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 namespaces within the wiki, along with a search box.

Categories list

Special:Categories—List of categories.

Category tree

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

Pages linking to disambiguation pages

Special:Disambiguations—List pages marked as disambiguations. (Help:Glossary#D)

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.

Blocked users

Special:BlockList—Blocked IPs and usernames. (Help:Blocking)

Change a user's name

Special:UserRenameTool—User Rename service. You can only rename your account once.

Change e-mail address

Special:ChangeEmail—Change the email address associated with your account. (Also within Special:Preferences)

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)

List global users

Special:ListGlobalUsers—List of users with global user-rights. Only Global Discussions Moderators, Vanguards, VSTF, Helpers, and Staff are returned by default.

Special:ListStaff—Only staff members are returned by default.

Special:ListVSTF—Only VSTF members are returned by default.

Special:ListHelpers—Only helpers members are returned by default.

Preferences

Special:Preferences—Change your user preferences.

Unblock user

Special:Unblock—Unblock a user or IP address.

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:ListBots—Only bots are returned by default.

Recent changes and logs

Followed pages

Special:Following-A list of all pages you are following/watching on a 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.

Recent changes

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

Related changes

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

Valid change tags

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

Watchlist

Special:Watchlist—A RecentChanges list of all edits to pages you're following.

Special:EditWatchlist—Edit your list of watched pages.

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.

File path

Special:FilePath—Returns the complete path for a file.

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

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

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)

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 most number of edits in descending order

Page tools

Example output of the Special:WhatLinksHere page.

Compare pages

Special:ComparePages—A tool to allow comparing revisions of two different pages.

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)

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

Close My Account

Special:CloseMyAccount—Allows you to close your account. Accounts will be closed automatically after 30 days.

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.

Download Your Data

Special:DownloadYourData—Download the data we provide: username, user ID, real name (if provided), email address, account creation date and a link to a list of your contributions.

Infobox Builder

Special:InfoboxBuilder―A graphical user interface for creating portable infoboxes.

Insights

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

Partner feed

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

Maps

Map Editor

Special:MapEditor―An editor for Maps.

Other special pages

Sign Up

Special:UserSignup―Redirects to the page for signing up to Fandom.

Confirm email

Special:WikiaConfirmEmail―Confirm your email address. Will redirect to main page if your address is already confirmed or the confirmation link expired.

Achievements Leaderboard

Special:Leaderboard—A ranked list of users by achievement badges.

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.

Log in / create account

Special:UserLogin—Sign in to your Fandom account.

If user is signed in, it redirects to the main page of the wiki.

Most linked-to files in content namespaces

Special:MostLinkedFilesInContent—List of images linked in content namespaces.

Random page in category

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

Templates on Fandom

Special:Templates—List of templates.

Wiki Features

Special:WikiFeatures to view, some special pages are only available if the corresponding feature is enabled on the wiki.

More special pages

These pages are not listed on Special:SpecialPages.

Activity feed

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

Add videos

Special:WikiaVideoAdd—Embed an external video on the wiki

Change password

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

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

File path

Special:FilePath—Returns the complete path for a file

Link search

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

Move page

Special:MovePage—Move a page

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

Search

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

Your contributions

Special:Mycontributions—Redirects to your contributions page

Your talk page

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

Your uploads

Special:Myuploads—Redirects to the page with your uploads

Your user page

Special:Mypage—Redirects to your user page

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.

Some extensions 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.

See also

• Help:Special page inclusion
• Help:Extensions
• MetaWiki help page

Further help and feedback

• Browse and search other help pages at Help:Contents
• Check Fandom Community Central for sources of further help and support
• Check Contacting Fandom for how to report any errors or unclear steps in this article