Manual:Interface/Special pages summary

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Special pages summary messages contain the content that appears at the top of special pages. They accept wiki markup.

List of messages:

Special:Allmessages

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This is a list of system messages available in the MediaWiki namespace.
Please visit MediaWiki Localisation and translatewiki.net if you wish to contribute to the generic MediaWiki localisation.

Special:Allpages

MediaWiki:Allpages-summary

Special:Ancientpages

MediaWiki:Ancientpages-summary

Special:Blankpage MediaWiki:intentionallyblankpage This page is intentionally left blank.

Special:Blockip

MediaWiki:Blockiptext

Use the form below to block write access from a specific IP address or username.

This should be done only to prevent vandalism, and in accordance with policy. Fill in a specific reason below (for example, citing particular pages that were vandalized). You can block IP address ranges using the CIDR syntax; the largest allowed range is /$1 for IPv4 and /$2 for IPv6.

Special:Booksources

MediaWiki:Booksources-summary

MediaWiki:Booksources-text (not really a summary) Below is a list of links to other sites that sell new and used books, and may also have further information about books you are looking for:

Special:Brokenredirects

MediaWiki:Brokenredirectstext

This page lists redirect pages whose destination does not exist.
This may be because the destination page was deleted, or because the redirect was incorrectly set up. The page containing the redirect should either be deleted, or amended to point to the correct place.

Special:Categories

MediaWiki:Categories-summary

MediaWiki:Categoriespagetext

The following categories exist on the wiki, and may or may not be unused.

Also see wanted categories.

Special:Confirmemail

MediaWiki:Confirmemail text

MediaWiki requires that you validate your email address before using email features.

Activate the button below to send a confirmation mail to your address. The mail will include a link containing a code; load the link in your browser to confirm that your email address is valid.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail invalid

Invalid confirmation code.

The code may have expired.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail loggedin Your email address has now been confirmed.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail needlogin Please $1 to confirm your email address.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail noemail You do not have a valid email address set in your user preferences.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail oncreate

A confirmation code was sent to your email address.

This code is not required to log in, but you will need to provide it before enabling any email-based features in the wiki.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail pending

A confirmation code has already been emailed to you;

if you recently created your account, you may wish to wait a few minutes for it to arrive before trying to request a new code.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail sendfailed

MediaWiki could not send your confirmation mail.

Please check your email address for invalid characters.

Mailer returned: $1

MediaWiki:Confirmemail success

Your email address has been confirmed.

You may now log in and enjoy the wiki.

Special:Contributions MediaWiki:Contribsub2 For $1 ($2)

Special:Deadendpages

MediaWiki:Deadendpages-summary

MediaWiki:Deadendpagestext

The following pages do not link to any other page on MediaWiki.org.
Unless there is a particular reason that it is not appropriate to do so, this should be fixed by editing the page so that it contains links to other relevant pages on the site.

Special:Deletedcontributions MediaWiki:contribsub2 For $1 ($2)

Special:Doubleredirects

MediaWiki:Doubleredirects-summary

MediaWiki:Doubleredirectstext

This page lists pages which redirect to other redirect pages.
Each row contains links to the first and second redirect, as well as the target of the second redirect, which is usually "real" target page, which the first redirect should point to. Crossed out entries have already been fixed, and can be ignored.

Special:Emailuser

MediaWiki:Emailpagetext

You can use the form below to send an email message to this user.

The email address you entered in your user preferences will appear as the "From" address of the email, so the recipient will be able to reply directly to you.

Special:Export

MediaWiki:Exporttext

You can export the text and editing history of a particular page or set of pages wrapped in some XML.

This can be imported into another wiki using MediaWiki via the import page.

To export pages, enter the titles in the text box below, one title per line, and select whether you want the current revision as well as all old revisions, with the page history lines, or the current revision with the info about the last edit.

In the latter case you can also use a link, for example Special:Export/MediaWiki for the page "MediaWiki".

For more details about the various URL parameters that can be used on this page, see Manual:Parameters to Special:Export.

Special:Fewestrevisions

MediaWiki:Fewestrevisions-summary

Special:Fileduplicatesearch MediaWiki:Fileduplicatesearch-summary Search for duplicate files based on hash values.

Special:Imagelist MediaWiki:Imagelisttext Below is a list of $1 files sorted $2.

Special:Import

MediaWiki:Importtext

Please export the file from the source wiki using the export utility.

Save it to your computer and upload it here.

Special:Invalidateemail

MediaWiki:Confirmemail invalid

Invalid confirmation code.

The code may have expired.

MediaWiki:Confirmemail invalidated Email address confirmation canceled

Special:Linksearch

MediaWiki:Linksearch-text

Wildcards such as "*.wikipedia.org" may be used.

Supported protocols: $1 (defaults to http:// if no protocol is specified).

Special:Listgrouprights

MediaWiki:Listgrouprights-summary

The following is a list of user groups defined on this wiki, with their associated access rights.

There may be additional information about individual rights.

Special:Listredirects

MediaWiki:Listredirects-summary

Special:Listusers MediaWiki:Listusers-summary The following is a list of all usernames currently in use on mediawiki.org, or those in a specified group. If you're requesting action from an admin or bureaucrat, we'd prefer you use Project:Requests instead.

Special:Lockdb

MediaWiki:Lockdbtext

Locking the database will suspend the ability of all users to edit pages, change their preferences, edit their watchlists, and other things requiring changes in the database.

Please confirm that this is what you intend to do, and that you will unlock the database when your maintenance is done.

Special:Log

MediaWiki:Alllogstext

Combined display of all available logs of MediaWiki.

You can narrow down the view by selecting a log type, the username (case-sensitive), or the affected page (also case-sensitive).

MediaWiki:Blocklogtext

This is a log of user blocking and unblocking actions.

Automatically blocked IP addresses are not listed. See the block list for the list of currently operational bans and blocks.

MediaWiki:Dellogpagetext Below is a list of the most recent deletions.

MediaWiki:Importlogpagetext Administrative imports of pages with edit history from other wikis.

MediaWiki:mergelogpagetext Below is a list of the most recent merges of one page history into another.

MediaWiki:Movelogpagetext Below is a list of all page moves.

MediaWiki:Newuserlogpagetext

This is a log of user creations.

List of the last 500 locally created accounts (API query)

MediaWiki:Protectlogtext

Below is a list of changes to page protections.

See the protected pages list for the list of currently operational page protections.

MediaWiki:Rightslogtext

This is a log of changes to user rights.

The list of user groups and their associated permissions is on Special:ListGroupRights.
Requests for rights should be placed at Project:Requests.

MediaWiki:suppressionlogtext

Below is a list of deletions and blocks involving content hidden from administrators.

See the block list for the list of currently operational bans and blocks.

MediaWiki:Uploadlogpagetext

Below is a list of the most recent file uploads.

See the gallery of new files for a more visual overview.

Special:Lonelypages

MediaWiki:Lonelypages-summary

MediaWiki:Lonelypagestext The following pages are not linked from or transcluded into other pages in MediaWiki.

Special:Longpages

MediaWiki:Longpages-summary

Special:Mimesearch

MediaWiki:Mimesearch-summary

This page enables the filtering of files for their MIME type.

Input: contenttype/subtype or contenttype/*, e.g. image/jpeg.

Special:Mostcategories

MediaWiki:Mostcategories-summary

Special:Mostimages

MediaWiki:Mostimages-summary

Special:Mostlinked

MediaWiki:Mostlinked-summary

Special:Mostlinkedcategories

MediaWiki:Mostlinkedcategories-summary

Special:Mostlinkedtemplates

MediaWiki:Mostlinkedtemplates-summary

Special:Mostrevisions

MediaWiki:Mostrevisions-summary

Special:Movepage

MediaWiki:Movepagetext

Using the form below will rename a page, moving all of its history to the new name.

The old title will become a redirect page to the new title. You can update redirects that point to the original title automatically. If you choose not to, be sure to check for double or broken redirects. You are responsible for making sure that links continue to point where they are supposed to go.

Note that the page will not be moved if there is already a page at the new title, unless the latter is a redirect and has no past edit history. This means that you can rename a page back to where it was renamed from if you make a mistake, and you cannot overwrite an existing page.

Note: This can be a drastic and unexpected change for a popular page; please be sure you understand the consequences of this before proceeding.

Special:Newimages MediaWiki:Newimages-summary This special page shows the last uploaded files.

Special:Newpages

MediaWiki:Newpages-summary

Special:Preferences

MediaWiki:Preferences-summary

Special:Prefixindex

MediaWiki:Prefixindex-summary

Special:Protectedpages

MediaWiki:Protectedpages-summary

This page lists all protected pages on the wiki.
Pages may be protected against editing, moving or both. Pages may be semi protected, in which case the protection blocks all unregistered users, or fully protected which blocks all users except sysops. Some pages may have cascading protection applied, which means that any templates, images or other pages that are included within the page are also protected in the same way. Non-existant pages that are protected against creation are listed separately on Special:Protectedtitles.

MediaWiki:Protectedpagesempty No pages are currently protected with these parameters.

Special:Protectedtitles

MediaWiki:Protectedtitles-summary

This page lists all page titles that are blocked from creation.
Pages may be blocked from creation by unregistered users (semi protected) or by all non-sysop users (fully protected). Existing pages that are blocked for editing/moving are listed on Special:Protectedpages. See Project:Protected titles for more information.

MediaWiki:Protectedtitlesempty No titles are currently protected with these parameters.

Special:Recentchanges

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See Help:Tracking changes for help using this page.

Special:Recentchangeslinked MediaWiki:Recentchangeslinked-summary Enter a page name to see changes on pages linked to or from that page. (To see members of a category, enter Category:Name of category). Changes to pages on your Watchlist are in bold.

Special:Resetpass MediaWiki:Resetpass-no-info You must be logged in to access this page directly.

MediaWiki:Resetpass announce To finish logging in, you must set a new password.

MediaWiki:Resetpass forbidden Passwords cannot be changed

MediaWiki:Resetpass text

Special:Search

MediaWiki:searchresulttext

You can use this form to search the site.
Enter your search terms into the box and click the search button. By default* the Public Domain help, technical manual, extensions and Main namespace will be searched. You can change this behaviour by editing your preferences. For more information about searching MediaWiki.org, see Help:Searching.

* Note – if you registered before December 2006, then by default only the main namespace will be searched. You can change this in your preferences.

MediaWiki:searchdisabled

MediaWiki search is disabled.

You can search via Google in the meantime. Note that their indexes of MediaWiki content may be out of date.

Special:Shortpages

MediaWiki:Shortpages-summary

Special:Specialpages

MediaWiki:Specialpages-summary

Special:Statistics MediaWiki:Statistics-summary (MW 1.36+)

Special:Uncategorizedcategories

MediaWiki:Uncategorizedcategories-summary

MediaWiki.org has two top level categories:

Category:Top level is the top level category for all English content.
Category:Languages is the top level category for all non-English content.

Apart from the above two categories this list should be empty (although please note that the list is cached, so changes are not reflected straight away).

Special:Uncategorizedimages

MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages-summary

Special:Uncategorizedpages

MediaWiki:Uncategorizedpages-summary

Special:Uncategorizedtemplates

MediaWiki:Uncategorizedtemplates-summary

Special:Undelete

MediaWiki:Undeletepagetext

The following $1 pages have been deleted but are still in the archive and can be undeleted.

The archive may be periodically cleaned out.

Special:Unlockdb

MediaWiki:Unlockdbtext

Unlocking the database will restore the ability of all users to edit pages, change their preferences, edit their watchlists, and other things requiring changes in the database.

Please confirm that this is what you intend to do.

Special:Unusedcategories

MediaWiki:Unusedcategoriestext

These categories are currently empty.
Empty categories are often candidates for deletion, however this is not always the case. In particular, there are some categories designed to flag up pages that need attention (e.g. Category:Cleanup) which will be empty if no problems of that type exist. If most cases these categories are marked with the {{EmptyCatGood}} template, but if in any doubt err on the side of caution.

Special:Unusedimages

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These files are not included on any page in the wiki.
However, they may still be in active use despite being listed here (e.g. if they are used in a stylesheet, or directly linked to from another web site). If that is known to be the case, please add the template {{Required image}}, {{Linked image}}, or {{Historical image}} to the description page to add it to Category:Required files with no apparent links and stop it appearing in this list.

Special:Unusedtemplates

MediaWiki:Unusedtemplates-summary

MediaWiki:Unusedtemplatestext

This page lists all pages in the template namespace which are not included in another page.
Remember to check for other links to the templates before deleting them. If in doubt about the purpose/utility of a template, check with its creator. Templates which are currently unused but which should not be deleted should be added to Project:Deliberately unused templates to remove them from this list when it is next updated.

Special:Unwatchedpages

MediaWiki:Unwatchedpages-summary

Special:Upload

MediaWiki:Upload-summary

MediaWiki:Uploadtext

Please read carefully

All files uploaded to MediaWiki.org must be available under a free license (no "fair use" or "noncommercial").
If you do not provide source and suitable license information, or if a file is in no way useful for this site (compare these hints), your file will have to be deleted without further notice.

You should upload free files unrelated to MediaWiki.org to Wikimedia Commons, our shared media repository which can be used by all Wikimedia projects in all languages, including this wiki.

To upload a file to MediaWiki.org:

Choose the source file. Using JPEG format for photographs, GIF for animations, SVG for images with a vector source, and PNG for other images is recommended.
Edit the destination filename below. Use a descriptive and concise filename, e.g. Button_darkgrey.jpg instead of IMG_0086273.jpg. You will not be able to change the filename once you've uploaded the file.
Provide detailed information on the subject of the image (what is shown) and the source of the file (author, date, source and permission) in the text box. If you made the image by yourself, state this explicitly. If you obtained the image from somewhere on the web, please include the URL where it can be obtained.
Select the appropriate license from the dropdown box. Alternatively you can name or add another free license as text to the summary field.

After uploading the file, insert it in relevant pages using the syntax [[Image:Filename.jpg|thumb|Caption]].

Special:Userlogin

Special:Userlogout

MediaWiki:Logouttext

You are now logged out.

Note that some pages may continue to be displayed as if you were still logged in, until you clear your browser cache.

Special:Version

Special:Wantedcategories

MediaWiki:Wantedcategories-summary

Special:Wantedfiles

MediaWiki:Wantedfiles-summary

Special:Wantedpages MediaWiki:Wantedpages-summary List of non-existing pages with the most links to them, excluding pages which only have redirects linking to them. For a list of non-existent pages that have redirects linking to them, see the list of broken redirects.

Special:Wantedtemplates

MediaWiki:Wantedtemplates-summary

Special:Watchlist

Special:Whatlinkshere

Special:Withoutinterwiki MediaWiki:Withoutinterwiki-summary The following pages do not link to other language versions.