Changes: Help:Special pages

Revision as of 14:47, 8 March 2017

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

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
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.

Further help and feedback

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