Help:Special pages/list

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By role

General information

• Special:AllMessages: This lists and allows editing of all system messages used on MediaWiki. You can use system messages using Template:Int.
• Special:SiteMatrix: A table containing a column of several languages and their shortcut codes across multiple Wikimedia projects.
• Special:SpecialPages: A list of popular tools and functions for managing and navigating the wiki.
• Special:Statistics: This shows site statistics like the number of content pages, edits, users, etc.
• Special:Version: This shows the version of the software and details about installed extensions, skins, etc.

Lists of pages

• Special:AllPages: This lists all MediaWiki pages in a specified namespace from a given starting point. A user can specify a starting point as a parameter, like Special:AllPages/T (for pages in the main namespace starting with "T"), or Special:AllPages/Template: (for pages in the Template namespace starting from the beginning). The listing order follows alphabetical order.
• Special:Categories: This shows an alphabetical list of categories and the number of pages in each.
• Special:CategoryTree: This displays categories in a hierarchical tree structure.

Special:ListFiles: This lists uploaded images and files, sortable by size or date.

• • Special:ListFiles/Example: List files that have been uploaded by User:Example.
• Special:ListRedirects: This lists all redirect pages.
• Special:PagesWithProp: This lists the pages that make use of a certain page property.
• Special:PrefixIndex: This lists all pages in a specified namespace that start with a given prefix. It's useful for finding subpages. For example, Special:PrefixIndex/User:Example.
• Special:ProtectedPages: This lists pages that are protected from editing.
• Special:ProtectedTitles: This lists titles that are protected from being created.
• Special:UnconnectedPages: This lists pages that are not linked to any Wikidata item.

Special Tools

• Special:ApiHelp: This provides help documentation for the MediaWiki API.
• Special:ApiSandbox: An interactive interface to test MediaWiki API requests.
• Special:Book: This manages and creates personalized sets of MediaWiki pages into books.
• Special:ComparePages: This compares the differences between two pages.
• Special:Diff: This displays the differences between two revisions of a page. For example, Special:Diff/6469269 shows the changes between version 6469269 and the previous version of the same page. Special:Diff/6469269/6473798 compares version 6469269 in Help:Table caption with version 6473798 in Help:Self link. This can also compare two versions of the same page.
  • Special:MobileDiff: This displays differences between revisions in the mobile version. For example, Special:MobileDiff/6469269
• Special:Export: This export pages as an XML file containing wikitext and metadata.
• Special:Gadgets: This lists user gadgets that can be enabled via the "Preferences" button.
• Special:MIMESearch: This searches for files by media type.
• Special:MovePage: To rename/move a page to a new title.
• Special:Nearby: This list pages near your geographical location.
• Special:Random: This redirects you to a random page in the main namespace. A parameter can be passed to specify other namespaces, such as Special:Random/Talk.
• Special:RandomInCategory: This redirects you to a randomly selected page within a particular category in any namespace.
• Special:RandomRedirect: This redirects you to a random page.
• Special:RandomRootpage: This redirects you to a random root page, excluding sub-pages. Wikibooks utilize a sub-page hierarchy function as a substitute for Special:Random, allowing for the display of "random books" in Wikibooks, instead of random pages.
• Special:Search: This enables you to search pages MediaWiki.
• Special:TemplateSandbox: To test and preview changes to templates.
• Special:Upload: To upload a file to the wiki.
• Special:WhatLinksHere: This lists all pages (including transclusions and redirects) that link to a given page. A parameter can be passed to it. For example, Special:WhatLinksHere/Main Page.

Latest changes made

• Special:AbuseFilter: Tools for detecting problematic edits.
• Special:AbuseLog: This contains logs generated by the Abuse Filter.
• Special:Log: A combined display of various public logs. The log type, user, and page can be specified. Supported parameters are "block", "delete", "protect", and "upload". For example, Special:Log/block displays the entire block log.
• Special:NewFiles: A gallery of recently added files.
• Special:NewPages: This displays new pages with creation date, time, size, creator, and first edit summary.
• Special:RecentChanges: This lists the recent edits in the project. Changes to pages watched appear bold.
• Special:RecentChangesLinked: This lists recent changes in pages linked from a selected page or category. Changes to pages watched appear bold. A parameter can be passed to it. For example, Special:RecentChangesLinked/Help:Links.
• Special:Tags: A list of tags that edits can be marked with.

Users

• Special:ActiveUsers: This lists users who have been active in the last 30 days.
• Special:BlockList: This lists all blocked IP addresses and usernames.
• Special:Contributions: This displays contributions from a specific user or all new users. A parameter can be passed to it. For example, Special:Contributions/Example.
• Special:EmailUser: This allows you to email another user.
• Special:ListGroupRights: This displays the rights assigned to different user groups.
• Special:ListUsers: This lists all registered users, filterable by group and other criteria.

Global users

• Special:CentralAuth: This provides global user statistics through the unified login or single user login (SUL). For example, Special:CentralAuth/Jimbo Wales.
• Special:GlobalBlockList: This lists all IP addresses that are globally blocked.
• Special:GlobalGroupPermissions: This displays the rights of a global user group and their members, and allows management of these rights.
• Special:GlobalUsers: This lists users across all Wikimedia wikis, showing global user group memberships and local account existence, with filtering options by global user groups.

Personal

• Special:CentralLogin: A centralized login for users.
• Special:ChangeEmail: To change or remove your email address.
• Special:ChangePassword: To change your password.
• Special:ConfirmEmail: To confirm your email address or see the date the email was confirmed.
• Special:Contributions: To view the contributions of all user's.
  • Special:MyContributions: To view your contributions.
• Special:EditWatchlist and Special:EditWatchlist/raw: To edit a your watchlist.
• Special:MergeAccount: To check the status of your unified login to enable you to access all Wikimedia projects.
• Special:MyPage: This links to your user page.
• Special:MyTalk: This links to your talk page.
• Special:MyUploads: To view a list of files you have uploaded.
• Special:Notifications: To access your notifications page.
• Special:Preferences: To view and modify your settings.
• Special:ResetTokens: To reset your token.
• Special:TopicSubscriptions: To view topics on the talk pages you are following.
• Special:UserLogin: A login page to MediaWiki.
  • Special:UserLogin/signup: To create a new account on MediaWiki.
• Special:UserLogout: A logout page of your account.
• Special:Watchlist: To see recent changes to the pages you are watching.

Maintenance

• Special:BrokenRedirects: This lists redirects that lead to non-existent pages.
• Special:DisambiguationPages: This lists all disambiguation pages.
• Special:DisambiguationPageLinks: This lists pages that link to disambiguation pages (replacing the old Special:Disambiguations page).
• Special:DoubleRedirects: This lists redirects that point to another redirect.
• Special:FileDuplicateSearch: Checks for duplicate files.
• Special:ListDuplicatedFiles: This lists all duplicated files on Wikipedia.
• Special:LongPages: This lists pages in the main namespace by size in decreasing order.
• Special:MostLinkedFiles: This lists files that are linked from the most pages.
• Special:ShortPages: This lists pages in the main namespace by size in increasing order.
• Special:UncategorizedFiles: This lists files without category tags.
• Special:UncategorizedPages: This lists pages without category tags (note: updates may not be immediate).
• Special:UncategorizedTemplates: This lists templates without category tags.
• Special:UnusedCategories: This lists unused categories.
• Special:UnusedFiles: This lists files that are not used.
• Special:UnusedTemplates: This lists templates that are not transcluded.
• Special:WantedCategories: This lists categories with members but no category page.
• Special:WantedFiles: This lists missing image files and other files.
• Special:WithoutInterwiki: This lists pages without links to other languages.

Miscellaneous

• Special:BlankPage: This displays a blank page.
• Special:BookSources: This enables you to search for book sources by ISBN.
• Special:Captcha: This provides help with CAPTCHA.
• Special:Cite: This generates bibliographic citations for a MediaWiki page.
• Special:ExpandTemplates: This expands wikitext by recursively expanding templates, parser functions, and variables.
• Special:FilePath: This returns the complete path for a file.
• Special:Hieroglyphs: This allows you to try out hieroglyph markup.
• Special:Interwiki: A list of interwiki and interlanguage prefixes.
• Special:LinkSearch: This allows you to search for external links.
• Special:MobileOptions: A page for configuring mobile view.
• Special:Permalink/Oldid: This links to a specific version of a wiki page.
• Special:Random: This redirects you to a random page.
• Special:Redirect: This redirects you by file, user, page, or revision ID.
• Special:SecurePoll: Manages polls and voting.
• Special:WikiSets: This shows a list of wiki sets.

Restricted

The below pages are accessible only to users with a particular privilege level.

• Special:Block: It's used by administrators to block or unblock users, IP addresses, and IP addresses ranges.
• Special:CheckUser: It's available to users with the checkuser privilege.
• Special:DeletedContributions: It's viewable by administrators to see deleted contributions.
• Special:Import: It's used by administrators and importers to import pages.
• Special:LockDB and Special:UnlockDB: It's used by developers to toggle the database between read/write and read-only modes.
• Special:MassMessage: This allows administrators and mass message senders to send a message to a list of users.
• Special:Nuke: It's available to administrators to mass delete pages.
• Special:Undelete: It's used by administrators to undelete pages.
• Special:UnwatchedPages: This shows unwatched pages, available to administrators.
• Special:UserRights: This displays user rights and allows administrators to assign and remove user access rights.

Rarely updated

The below pages are rarely updated. The following special pages are updated on a less regular schedule. Some may be analogous on cloud services.

• Special:AncientPages: This displays a list of old pages, sorted based on the oldest first. It's updated monthly on the 8th and 22th of every month.
• Special:DeadendPages: This lists pages that do not have any outgoing links to other pages within the wiki. It's updated monthly, on the 9th and 23rd of every month.
• Special:FewestRevisions: This lists pages with few revisions. It's updated monthly, on the 16th of every month.
• Special:LonelyPages: This lists pages with no links in them. It's updated monthly, on the 15th of every month.
• Special:MostCategories: This lists pages with a large number of categories. It's updated monthly, on the 16th of every month.
• Special:MostLinkedCategories: This lists the categories with the highest number of pages. It's updated monthly on the 17th of every month.
• Special:MostLinkedPages: This lists pages with the most incoming links from other pages. It's updated monthly on the 10th and 24th of every month.
• Special:MostRevisions: This lists pages with the highest number of edits. It's updated monthly, on the 11th and 25th of every month.
• Special:MostTranscludedPages or Special:MostLinkedTemplates: This lists the templates that are transcluded the most pages, excluding transclusions via a redirect. It's updated monthly, on the 18th of every month.
• Special:UncategorizedCategories: This lists all category pages that do not have a parent category or are not part of a larger category hierarchy. It's updated monthly, on the 19th of every month.
• Special:WantedPages: This lists non-existent pages that have been linked from other pages, indicating needed content. It's updated monthly, on the 12th and 26th of every month.
• Special:WantedTemplates: This lists non-existent templates that have been used on other pages, indicating missing templates that need to be created. It's updated monthly, on the 20th of every month.