Help:Special pages

A special page is a part of the MediaWiki software that performs a specific function, and always begins with the prefix "Special:".

The "Special pages" link in the toolbox in the sidebar leads to Special:Specialpages, which lists all available functions in alphabetical order.

You can include some of these in other pages. See Special page inclusion.

Special pages for all users

Active user list

Special:Activeusers : A list of people who have edited this wiki. (Help:Active users)

Login

Special:Userlogin : Log in or create a new account.

Logout

Special:Userlogout : Log out of your account.

Preferences

Special:Preferences : Set your user preferences. (Preferences help)

My watchlist

Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)

Recent changes

Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits on this wiki. (Recent changes help)

Upload file

Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki. (Upload help)

Image list

Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date

New image gallery

Special:Newimages : The most recently uploaded images displayed in a gallery format

User list

Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users.

Admins list

Special:Listadmins : A list of all administrators

Statistics

Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users (see also statistics)

Random page

Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page

Orphaned pages

Special:Lonelypages : Articles not linked to from any other page on the wiki

Uncategorized pages

Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags

Uncategorized categories

Special:Uncategorizedcategories : Categories without category tags

Unused files

Special:Unusedimages : Images that do not appear on any page.

Wanted pages

Special:Wantedpages : Most internally-linked to articles that do not yet exist

Short pages

Special:Shortpages

Long pages

Special:Longpages

New pages

Special:Newpages

Oldest pages

Special:Ancientpages

Dead-end pages

Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links.

All pages

Special:Allpages : A list of every page on the wiki

List of blocked IP addresses and usernames

Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames

Maintenance page

Special:Maintenance : Find problem pages and spelling mistakes on the wiki.

Book sources

Special:Booksources : Used when an ISBN is linked to on a page

Categories

Special:Categories : See Help:Categories

Export pages

Special:Export : Exports the source of individual wiki pages, optionally with their histories, in a thin XML wrapper which includes metadata (time, etc).

Version

Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running

All system messages

Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.

New image gallery

Special:Newimages : Thumbnails of newly uploaded images.

Logs

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

Restricted special pages

Block user

Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.

Restore deleted page

Special:Undelete : Sysop only. One way to undelete a page.

Make a user into a sysop

Special:Makesysop : Bureaucrat only.

Lock database

Special:Lockdb : Developer only. Puts the wiki in read only mode.

Unlock database

Special:Unlockdb : Developer only. Puts the wiki in read/write mode.

Logs

• Block log - blocks and unblocks
• Deletion log - deleted and undeleted pages
• Protection log - protected and unprotected pages
• Upload log - list of images uploaded

See also

• MetaWikipedia:Help:Special page