Help:Special pages

The Special Pages page.

Special pages are 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

Oldest pages

Special:AncientPages — Lists the oldest pages on a wiki.

Broken redirects

Special:BrokenRedirects — List of pages whose target page 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)

Pages with the fewest revisions

Special:FewestRevisions — Pages with the least amount of edits.

Long pages

Special:LongPages — Pages that contain the most characters in descending order.

Orphaned pages

Special:LonelyPages — Pages not linked to or from any other page on the wiki.

Non-portable infoboxes

Special:NonportableInfoboxes — Templates are not portables for infoboxes. (Help:Infoboxes)

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.

Uncategorized categories

Special:UncategorizedCategories — Categories without category tags. (Help:Category)

Uncategorized files

Special:UncategorizedFiles — Images without category tags. (Help:Category)

Uncategorized pages

Special:UncategorizedPages — Pages without category tags. (Help:Category)

Uncategorized templates

Special:UncategorizedTemplates — Templates without category tags. (Help:Category)

Unorganized templates

Special:UnorganizedTemplates

Unused categories

Special:UnusedCategories — Displays categories that have not been used.

Unused files

Special:UnusedFiles — Images that do not appear on any page. (Help:Adding images)

Unused templates

Special:UnusedTemplates — Templates that are not included in any page. (Help:Templates)

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 files

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

Wanted pages

Special:WantedPages — Most internally linked-to articles that do not yet exist.

Wanted templates

Special:WantedTemplates — Most internally linked-to templates that do not yet exist.

Pages without language links

Special:WithoutInterwiki — Pages that do not link to any alternate language counterparts. (Help:Interlanguage link)

Lists 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

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

List of redirects

Special:ListRedirects — List of redirects on a wiki. (Help:Redirect)

Pages linking to disambiguation pages

Special:DisambiguationPageLinks — List of pages that are linking to the disambiguation page by __DISAMBIG__ magic word. (Help:Glossary#D)

Pages with a page property

Special:PagesWithProp — Pages that are using properties.

Tracking categories

Special:TrackingCategories — Lists to the maintenance categories.

Users and rights

Autoblocks

Special:AutoblockList — Lists the autoblocked users. (Help:Blocking)

Block user

Special:Block — Block a user or IP address. (Help:Blocking)

Blocked users

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

Bot passwords

Special:BotPasswords

Change credentials

Special:ChangeCredentials — Changes user's credentials.

User contributions

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

Deleted user contributions

Special:DeletedContributions — View a user's or IP address's edits that have been deleted. (Help:Delete)

Edit count

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

Change email address

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

Grants

Special:ListGrants — Lists the grants.

User group rights

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

User 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. 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.

Password policies

Special:PasswordPolicies — Lists the password policies.

Preferences

Special:Preferences — Change your user preferences. (Help:Preferences)

Reset tokens

Special:ResetTokens — Resets the tokens from watchlist. (Help:Followed pages)

Unblock user

Special:Unblock — Unblock a user or IP address.

User rights

Special:UserRights — Use to manage user rights of users. (Help:User rights)

Recent changes and logs

Abuse filter log

Special:AbuseLog — Logs of abuse filters by AbuseFilter.

Logs (extended list)

Special:Log — Logs of deletion, protection, blocking, image uploads and user rights settings.

Gallery of new files

Special:NewFiles — List of new images on a wiki. (Help:Adding images)

New pages

Special:NewPages — List of new pages on a wiki. (Help:New page)

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 recent changes list of all edits to pages you're following.

Special:EditWatchlist — Edit your list of watched pages. (Help:Followed pages)

Special:EditWatchlist/raw

Media reports and uploads

File list

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

List of files with duplicates

Special:ListDuplicatedFiles — Lists the duplicated files.

MIME search

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

Media statistics

Special:MediaStatistics — Lists the media statistics.

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Special:OrphanedTimedText — Lists the orphaned timed text with TimedText: namespace.

Search for duplicate files

Special:FileDuplicateSearch — Locate duplicate files based on filename.

Upload file

Special:Upload — Upload a file to the wiki

Data and tools

System messages

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

Abuse filter management

Special:AbuseFilter — Opens the main page of AbuseFilter.

API sandbox

Special:ApiSandbox — Opens the API sandbox for queries.

Book sources

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

Expand templates

Special:ExpandTemplates — Expands the template. (Help:Templates)

Gadgets

Special:Gadgets — Lists the gadgets. (Help:Gadgets)

Gadget usage statistics

Special:GadgetUsage — Lists for usage of gadgets. (Help:Gadgets)

Statistics

Special:Statistics — Total number of pages and users

Version

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

Redirecting special pages

Differences

Special:Diff — Shows for the difference ID. (Help:Page history)

External links search

Special:LinkSearch — Links on pages that take readers outside of the wiki. (Help:Searching)

Permanent link

Special:PermanentLink — Enters for the revision ID.

Random page in category

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

Random page

Special:RandomPage — Redirects to a random page.

Random redirect

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

Random root page

Special:RandomRootPage — Redirects to a root page.

Redirect by file, user, page, revision, or log ID

Special:Redirect — Opens the redirect for revision ID.

High use pages

Pages with the most categories

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

Most linked-to files

Special:MostLinkedFiles — Files that have the most links to them in descending order.

Pages with the most interwikis

Special:MostInterwikis — Pages that have the most interlanguage links. (Help:Interlanguage links)

Most linked-to pages

Special:MostLinkedPages — Pages that have the most links to them in descending order.

Most linked-to categories

Special:MostLinkedCategories — Categories that have the most links to them in descending order.

Most transcluded pages

Special:MostTranscludedPages — Pages that have the most transcluded to them.

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.

Change content model of a page

Special:ChangeContentModel — Changes the content model.

Compare pages

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

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)

Merge page histories

Special:MergeHistory — Merges the histories.

Mass delete

Special:Nuke - (Help:Extensions)

View 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.

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Map editor

Special:MapEditor ― An editor for maps. (Help:Maps Extension)

Other special pages

Fandom pages

Wiki Analytics Admin Dashboard

Special:Analytics — Provides analytics information for the wiki.

Close My Account

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

Community

Special:Community―Community Page Partially editable by admins.

Contact Fandom

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

Create a new page

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

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.

Achievements Leaderboard

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

Search

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

Find communities on FANDOM

Special:SearchCommunity

Social Activity

Special:SocialActivity

Change a user's name

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

User Activity

w:Special:UserActivity

Global user rights

List global users

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

• Special:ListStaff — Only staff members are returned by default.
• Special:ListSOAP — Only SOAP members are returned by default.
• Special:ListHelpers — Only helpers members are returned by default.

Other special pages

Confirm email address

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

JavaScript pages

Special:JSPages

Math status

Special:MathStatus

Tags report

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

Log in / create account

Special:UserLogin — Sign in to your Fandom account.

Log out

Special:UserLogout

UserSignup

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

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

Pages without images

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

More special pages

These pages are not listed on Special:SpecialPages.

Blank page

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

Change password

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

File path

Special:FilePath — Returns the complete path for a file

Move page

Special:MovePage — Move a page

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

Special pages

Special:SpecialPages

Theme Designer

Special:ThemeDesigner ― Edit the wiki theme.

Logs

• Block log - blocks and unblocks (Help:Blocking)
• Deletion log - deleted and undeleted pages (Help:Delete)
• 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.
• Page creation log - list of page creations (Help:New page)
• 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:

• 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