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.
A 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 (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 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:UncategorizedImages—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:UnusedImages—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
- Pages without images
- Special:Withoutimages—List of pages without images on them.
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
- Templates list
- Special:Templates—List of templates
- Category tree
- Special:CategoryTree—Use a category name to see its contents as a tree structure (Help:Category)
- 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.
- Unblock user
- Special:Unblock—Unblock a user or IP address.
- Blocked IP addresses and usernames
- Special:BlockList—Blocked IPs and usernames (Help:Blocking)
- 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)
- 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:ListStaff—Only staff members are returned by default.
- Special:ListVSTF—Only VSTF members are returned by default.
- Special:ListBots—Only bots are returned by default.
- Special:ListHelpers—Only helpers members are returned by default.
Account management and settings
- Sign Up
- Special:UserSignup―Redirects to the page for signing up to FANDOM
- Change password
- Special:ChangePassword—Change the password associated with your user account
- Change email
- Special:ChangeEmail—Change the email address associated with your user account
- Preferences
- Special:Preferences—Set your user preferences
- Followed Pages
- Special:Following—A list of pages you are following on that wiki
- Edit Watchlist
- Special:EditWatchlist—Edit your list of watched pages
Recent changes and logs
- 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
- New photos on this wiki
- Special:NewFiles—List of photos on a wiki sorted by newest to oldest
- 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—Show the pages you are following
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
- MIME search
- Special:MIMESearch—Enables the filtering of files for its MIME-type
- Upload multiple files
- Special:MultipleUpload—Upload up to 10 files to the wiki (Help:Multiple uploads)
- Upload file
- Special:Upload—Upload a file to the wiki
- Upload videos
- Special:WikiaVideoAdd—Upload a video 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
- Wiki Statistics
- Special:Insights—Displays monthly statistics of active users, edits, uploads, and other useful data
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)
- Search
- Special:Search—Search the wiki (Help:Searching)
- Link search
- Special:LinkSearch—Searches through all external links on the wiki
- Random page in category
- Special:RandomInCategory—Generates a random page limited to the named category
- 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
- 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
- File path
- Special:FilePath—Returns the complete path for a file
- Your user page
- Special:Mypage—Redirects to your user page
- Your talk page
- Special:Mytalk—Redirects to your talk page or message wall
- Your contributions
- Special:Mycontributions—Redirects to your contributions page
- Your uploads
- Special:Myuploads—Redirects to the page with your uploads
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 large number of edits in descending order
Page tools
- 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)
- Import pages
- Special:Import—Import pages exported from another wiki in an XML file (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.
- Move page
- Special:MovePage—Move a page
FANDOM pages
- 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
- Partner feed
- Special:PartnerFeed—RSS feed for types of wiki actions and content
Other special pages
- API Explorer
- Special:ApiExplorer—Displays documentation for the wiki's API
- Achievements Leaderboard
- Special:Leaderboard—A ranked list of users by achievement badges
- Activity feed
- Special:WikiActivity—A visual feed of edits and communication on the wiki
- 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.
- Wiki Features
- Special:WikiFeatures to view
- Wiki Features
- Special:WikiFeatures to edit
- Enable, disable, and give feedback on experimental and optional features
- Map Editor
- Special:MapEditor―An editor for Maps.
- Theme Designer
- Special:ThemeDesigner―Edit the wiki theme.
- If user is signed in, it redirects to the main page of the wiki
- Blank page
- Special:BlankPage―A blank page. Can be used by JavaScript scripts to insert custom user interface.
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.
- User rename log - list of user renames.
Some extension 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
Further help and feedback
- Browse and search other help pages at Help:Contents
- Check Fandom Community Central for sources of further help and support
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