Help:Special page

The namespace "Special:" consists of "special pages". These have no corresponding wikitext; they are created by the software on demand. Some depend on the preferences that have been set, e.g. classic or enhanced Recent Changes, and the number of titles in Recent Changes and the watchlist, etc.

Example of alphabetic list as a special page
In the case of alphabetic lists of pages, order is used. In particular, a-z come after A-Z. The blank space within a page name is treated as an underscore, and therefore comes after the capitals, and before the lower case letters. However, a "blank space" after the name comes before any character. Sometimes a special character looks like a regular letter, but has a special code anyway.

Thus we have the order PC, PCX, PC Bruno, PCjr, Κ�?�?ια Σελίδα.

For the allowed characters in the lower range the order is:


 * !%&'-./[0-9]:;?[A-Z]_[a-z]

Other special characters come at the end.

General use

 * Special pages : Special:Specialpages : A list of the other special pages


 * Recent changes : Special:RecentChanges : The latest edits in the project. ( Recent Changes help)
 * Related changes : Special:RecentChangesLinked : List of changes made recently to pages linked from a specified page (or to members of a specified category)

Searching

 * Search : Special:Search : Search files (names and summaries) and pages based on string(s) and optional namespaces (defaults to Main and File
 * External link search : Special:LinkSearch : Search external links by search patterm (wildcards such as "*.wikipedia.org" may be used; supported protocols: http://, https://, ftp://, irc://, gopher://, telnet://</tt>, nntp://</tt>, worldwind://</tt>, mailto:</tt>, news:</tt>, svn://</tt>, and xmpp:</tt>)
 * MIME search : Special:MIMESearch : List files filtered by MIME type (input: contenttype/</tt>subtype, e.g. image/jpeg</tt>)

User specific

 * Change password : Special:ChangePassword : Change your user password
 * Preferences : Special:Preferences : Set your user preferences. ( Setting preferences in MediaWiki)
 * My watchlist : Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. ( Watchlist help)


 * Login : Special:UserLogin : Log in as a user, if not currently logged in
 * Logout : Special:UserLogout : Logout, if currently logged in as a user

File related

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


 * Image list : Special:ListFiles, Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date


 * New files : Special:NewFiles : new file uploaded - newest files uploaded, with name, user who uploaded the file, upload date and time, and current size


 * Wanted files : Special:WantedFiles : Links to un-uploaded files by rank.
 * Unused files : Special:UnusedFiles, Special:Unusedimages : List of unused files (mostly images)


 * File path : Special:FilePath : Show complete path for a file (images are shown in full resolution, other file types are started with their associated program directly)

Page lists

 * Orphaned pages : Special:LonelyPages : Articles with no links to them in the wiki, otherwise known as orphaned articles.


 * Uncategorized pages : Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags (note that after adding a tag to a page refreshing this page does not immediately reflects the change)


 * Wanted pages : Special:WantedPages : Links to uncreated pages by rank.


 * Fewest revisions : Special:FewestRevisions : Pages with low revision counts in order of least revisions
 * Short pages : Special:ShortPages - pages in the main namespace, with size (of the wikitext excluding that of templates used) in bytes, in order of increasing size
 * Long pages : Special:LongPages - pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size
 * Without language links : Special:WithoutInterwiki : Pages without language links


 * New pages : Special:NewPages : new pages in the main namespace - newest pages in the main namespace, with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first edit summary, in reverse order of creation


 * Oldest pages : Special:AncientPages - pages in the main namespace, with creation date and time, in order of creation
 * Dead-end pages : Special:DeadendPages : Pages without any outgoing links
 * Broken redirects : Special:BrokenRedirects : Redirects that link to non-existent pages
 * Double redirects : Special:DoubleRedirects : Pages which redirect to other redirect pages


 * Disambiguation linked pages : Special:Disambiguations ; List of pages that link to disambig pages and the disambig pages they link to
 * Redirects : Special:ListRedirects : List of pages that are redirects and the page they link to


 * Protected pages : Special:ProtectedPages : List protected pages based on several criteria

Category related

 * Category tree : Special:CategoryTree : Category subtree or tree based on specified category to start with
 * Uncategorized categories : Special:UnusedCategories : List uncategorized categories alphabetically
 * Wanted categories : Special:WantedCategories : List of uncreated categories (category page) by rank

Template related

 * Uncategorized templates : Special:UncategorizedTemplates : List uncategorized templates alphabetically
 * Unused templates : Special:UnusedTemplates : List unused templates alphabetically
 * Wanted templates : Special:WantedTemplates : List of uncreated templates by rank

Wiki info

 * All pages : Special:AllPages : "All pages by title" : pages in the main namespace in alphabetical order; may be temporarily disabled.
 * All pages with prefix : Special:PrefixIndex : display pages based on entered "prefix" text and selected namespace in alphabetical order; may be temporarily disabled.
 * Categories : Special:Categories : Lists all categories alphabetically
 * Logs : Special:Log : Show a variety of wiki activity information logs
 * Statistics : Special:Statistics : Total number of pages and users
 * User group rights : Special:ListGroupRights : Lists user group rights in bullet-ed list by group
 * Version : Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running

User listing

 * List of blocked IP addresses and usernames : Special:BlockList, Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames


 * User list : Special:ListUsers, Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users (No group, Rollback, Bots, Administrators, and Bureaucrats).


 * Admins list : Special:ListUsers/sysop, Special:Listadmins : A list of all Administrators. See Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat for a list of bureaucrats.

Misc

 * Contributions : Special:Contributions : List contributions of a specified user by namespace and optional date range; ; use  to make a link specifying page directly


 * What links here : Special:WhatLinksHere : List files and pages that link to a specified page with optional namespace; use  to make a link specifying page directly


 * Random page : Special:Randompage : Redirects to a random page from in the global namespace which is not a redirect.


 * Book sources : Special:Booksources : lookup


 * Edit count : Special:Editcount : Show number of edits by a specified user (shows by namespace in current wiki and all Wikia wikis)


 * Protected titles : Special:Booksources : List protected (unusable) page titles
 * 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.).

Restricted special pages

 * Multiple file upload : Special:MultipleUpload : Sysop only. Upload up to 10 files at once. Doesn't allow categories or templates in summary field.
 * Block user : Special:Block, Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
 * Deleted user contributions : Special:DeletedContributions : Show deleted user contributions based on IP or username by namespace.
 * View or restore deleted pages : Special:Undelete : Sysop only. One way to undelete a page.
 * User rights management : Special:UserRights : Sysop or Bureaucrat only. Demote/promote users or add them to different groups.


 * Import pages : Special:Import : Sysop only. Import pages as XML data (best to use Special:Export to generate data).
 * 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.

Sysop maintenance special pages

 * All system messages : Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Editing these pages is restricted and will affect wiki UI.
 * Duplicate file search : Special:FileDuplicateSearch : Search for duplicate files (without File:</tt> prefix) on basis of its hash value
 * Tags : Special:Tags : Lists the tags that the software may mark an edit with, and their meaning; developer only?
 * Unwatched pages : Special:UnwatchedPages : List pages that aren't on any watch lists

Currently unavailable special pages

 * Popular pages : Special:Popularpages : The most visited pages. Currently disabled.

Logs

 * Special:Logs

Miscellaneous
Special pages can be linked to as usual, like Special:Recentchanges, and when they have parameters, the parameters follow after a backslash after the name, for example Special:RecentChanges/days=3,limit=10 (last 10 changes).

"Special:" in is e.g. "Speciaal"  in Dutch, "Spezial" in German, "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "מיוחד:" in Hebrew. See e.g. the prefix of "Recentchanges" in the URL of the link to the Recent changes.

Also, some special pages appear on the sidebar because they act differently depending on what page they target for an action.


 * What sidebar special pages specific to current page do:
 * What links here – Shows what other wiki pages link to the page you're on (links to this page have been added to various spots in the wiki, so you can see it at work).
 * Related changes – Shows recent changes to wiki pages that link from the page you're on (these links only exist to see how this special page works: Category talk:Game terms, Rumored Expansions).