Changes: Help:Special pages

Latest revision as of 06:04, 18 July 2023

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. You can also access this page using the keyboard shortcut Alt + Shift + Q.
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 and letter coded by access levels:

Default color (no letter) — Available to anyone
Green (L) — Available to logged in users
Red (A) — Available to admins

If a special page isn't available to an user, it will generally not display on their view of Special:SpecialPages.

Maintenance reports

Broken redirects: Special:BrokenRedirects — List of pages whose target page has been deleted or doesn't exist. (Help:Redirects)
Dead-end pages: Special:DeadendPages — Pages without any outgoing links.
Double redirects: Special:DoubleRedirects — List of pages that redirect to another redirect page. (Help:Redirects)
Long pages: Special:LongPages — Pages that contain the most characters in descending order.
Non-portable infoboxes: Special:NonportableInfoboxes — Templates are not portables for infoboxes. (Help:Infoboxes)
Oldest pages: Special:AncientPages — Lists the oldest pages on a wiki.
Orphaned pages: Special:LonelyPages — Pages 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.
Uncategorized categories: Special:UncategorizedCategories — Categories without category tags. (Help:Categories)
Uncategorized files: Special:UncategorizedFiles — Images without category tags. (Help:Categories)
Uncategorized pages: Special:UncategorizedPages — Pages without category tags. (Help:Categories)
Uncategorized templates: Special:UncategorizedTemplates — Templates without category tags. (Help:Categories)
Unorganized templates: Special:UnorganizedTemplates — Templates without any type definitions. (Help:Template types)
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 (A): 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:Categories)
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.

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:Categories)
Category tree: Special:CategoryTree — Use a category name to see its contents as a tree structure. (Help:Categories)
Disambiguation pages: Special:DisambiguationPages — List pages marked as disambiguations. (Help:Glossary#D)
External links search: Special:LinkSearch — Links on pages that take readers outside of the wiki. (Help:Searching)
List of redirects: Special:ListRedirects — List of redirects on a wiki. (Help:Redirects)
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 (A)

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

Blocked users

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

Bot passwords

Special:BotPasswords — Registers user's bot account. (Help:Bots)

Change email address

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

Deleted user contributions (A)

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

Grants

Special:ListGrants — Lists the grants.

Notifications (L)

Special:Notifications — Lists Gamepedia notifications. (Help:Notifications)

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:Watchlist)

Unblock user (A)

Special:Unblock — Unblock a user or IP address.

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 to "Users". 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.

User contributions: Special:Contributions — List of contributions of anonymous or logged-in users. (Help:User contributions)
User rights (A): 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.
Gallery of new files: Special:NewFiles — List of new images on a wiki. (Help:Adding images)
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: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:Watchlist); 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.
⧼orphanedtimedtext⧽: Special:OrphanedTimedText — Lists the orphaned timed text with TimedText: namespace.
Search for duplicate files: Special:FileDuplicateSearch — Locate duplicate files based on filename.
⧼transcodestatistics⧽ (L): Special:Transcode statistics — Shows the stats about sound files with transcodes.
Upload file (L): Special:Upload — Upload a file to the wiki.

Data and tools

API sandbox: Special:ApiSandbox — Opens the API sandbox for queries.
Abuse filter management: Special:AbuseFilter — Opens the main page of AbuseFilter.
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)
Gadget usage statistics: Special:GadgetUsage — Lists for usage of gadgets. (Help:Gadgets)
Gadgets: Special:Gadgets — Lists the gadgets. (Help:Gadgets)
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

Differences: Special:Diff — Shows for the difference ID. (Help:Page history)
Edit a page: Special:EditPage — Allows to edit a page with a target page. (Help:Editing)
New section: Special:NewSection — Allows to add a new section with a target page. (Help:Editing)
Page history: Special:PageHistory — Allows to enter page's history with a target page. (Help:Page history)
Page info: Special:PageInfo — Allows to enter page's info with a target page.
Permanent link: Special:PermanentLink — Enters for the revision ID.
Purge: Special:Purge — Allows to purge with a target page. (Help:Purge)
Random page: Special:RandomPage — Redirects to a random page.
Random page in category: Special:RandomInCategory — Generates a random page limited to the named category.
Random redirect: Special:RandomRedirect — Randomly taken to a redirecting page. (Help:Redirects)
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 a page, file name, user ID, revision ID, or log ID.

High use pages

Most linked-to categories: Special:MostLinkedCategories — Categories that have the most links to them in descending order.
Most linked-to files: Special:MostLinkedFiles — Files that have the most links to them in descending order.
Most linked-to pages: Special:MostLinkedPages — Pages 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 categories: Special:MostCategories — List of pages with the most categories in descending order.
Pages with the most interwikis: Special:MostInterwikis — Pages that have the most interlanguage links. (Help:Interlanguage links)
Pages with the most revisions: Special:MostRevisions — List of pages with the most number of edits in descending order.

Change content model of a page (A): 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 (A): Special:Import — Import pages exported from another wiki in an XML file (Help:Exporting pages)
Merge page histories (A): Special:MergeHistory — Merges the histories.
View deleted pages (A): 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.

Other special pages

Achievements Leaderboard

Special:Leaderboard — A ranked list of users by achievement badges. (Help:Achievements)

Announcements (A)

Special:Announcements — Allows you to make an announcement. (Help:Announcements)

Change a user's name

Special:UserRenameTool — User Rename service. You can only rename your account once. (Help:Changing your username)

Close My Account

Special:CloseMyAccount — Allows you to close your account. Accounts will be closed automatically after 30 days. (Help:Closing an account)

Community

Special:Community ― Partially editable by admins. (Community Page)

Confirm email address

Special:ConfirmEmail — Confirms user's email address.

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. (Help:Blogs)

Create New Community

Special:CreateNewWiki — Guided process to creating a new wiki. (Help:Start a new community)^[1]

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. (Help:Database download)

Edit count

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

Find communities on FANDOM

Special:SearchCommunity — Finds any communities on Fandom.

Infobox Builder (L)

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

JavaScript pages

Special:JSPages — Lists the current review status of MediaWiki namespace scripts. (Help:JavaScript review process)

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.

Log in / create account: Special:UserLogin — Login to your Fandom account. (Help:Logging in)
Log out: Special:UserLogout — Logout to your Fandom account. (Help:Logging in)
Map editor: Special:MapEditor ― An editor for maps. (Help:Maps Extension)
Math status (L): Special:MathStatus — Shows the status about maths. (Help:Math)
New wikis: Special:NewWikis — Lists all recently-created wikis.^[1]
Pages without images: Special:Withoutimages — List of pages without images on them.
Search: Special:Search — Search the wiki. (Help:Searching)
Social Activity: Special:SocialActivity — Recent posts about comments, Message Wall, and Discussions. (Help:Social Activity Feed)
Tags report: Special:TagsReport — Allows searching for usage of templates, parser functions and HTML-like extension tags - by name, parameter name and parameter value.
UserSignup: Special:UserSignup — Sign up to your Fandom account. (Help:Create an account)
Wiki Analytics Admin Dashboard (A): Special:Analytics — Provides analytics information for the wiki. (Help:Analytics dashboard)

Unlisted 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.
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 Special:ListFiles with your uploads.
Your user page: Special:Mypage — Redirects to your user page.
Special pages: Special:SpecialPages — Lists all the special pages.
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)
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.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 This only shows in English Community Central.

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[note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 This only shows in English Community Central.

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