Changes: Help:Special pages

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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

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.

Further help and feedback

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