Help:Special page

Special pages are pages generated by the software on demand for special purposes, usually related to project maintenance. They are found in the Special: namespace, a virtual namespace whose pages lack corresponding talk pages. They are not written in wikitext and cannot be directly edited but elements of their pages can sometimes be edited through corresponding pages in the MediaWiki namespace. If you make a normal redirect to a special page, the redirect will not be immediately followed (though special pages can be targets of soft redirects), and directly creating any pages beginning with the Special: prefix is also not possible.

Special pages often take parameters. Sometimes these can be supplied after a slash (as in Special:Log/block); in other cases an index.php call is used; for example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=3&limit=10. Also, the content of most special pages depends on preferences that have been set by the user, e.g. classic or enhanced Recent Changes, the number of titles in Recent Changes and the watchlist, etc.

A directory of special pages available for the current user can be accessed from Special:SpecialPages, which is found in the sidebar of every page on Wikipedia in the Tools section.

Modifying special pages

Although special pages are not themselves editable, they generally contain standard text which is modifiable (although only by administrators). To find the right portion of text, append ?uselang=qqx to the special page URL, or append &uselang=qqx instead if the URL already contains a ?. This will reveal message names in parentheses. Then, go to that name in the MediaWiki namespace. For example, Special:BookSources?uselang=qqx reveals "(booksources-summary)", so MediaWiki:Booksources-summary is used on that page. To propose a modification, leave an {{edit fully-protected}} request on the talk page of the relevant MediaWiki page. An administrator will make the change if it seems appropriate.

Available special pages

By function

General information

• Special:AllMessages (System messages): displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace. See Help:System message .
• Special:SiteMatrix (Wikimedia wikis): lists all Wikimedia projects (such as different language Wikipedias) and their codes.
• Special:SpecialPages: a list of most special pages currently available to all users.
• Special:Statistics: total number of pages and users in various categories.
• Special:Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running and lists the extensions, skins, and libraries currently installed.

Page listings

• Special:AllPages: allows the user to access a portion of an alphabetical list of all Wikipedia pages in a specified namespace. A starting point can be given as a parameter, e.g. Special:AllPages/T (pages in the main namespace, from "T"), Special:AllPages/Template: (pages in the Template: namespace, from the start). For the order in which pages are listed, see alphabetical order.
• Special:Categories: shows an alphabetical list of categories, with numbers of members.
• Special:CategoryTree: displays categories in a tree structure.
• Special:ListFiles (File list): list of images and other files uploaded; can be sorted by size or date. Special:ListFiles/Example lists files uploaded by User:Example.
• Special:ListRedirects (Redirects): lists all redirects.
• Special:PagesWithProp (Pages with a page property): lists pages that use a particular page property.
• Special:PrefixIndex (All pages with prefix): similar to AllPages. Lists all pages of a specified namespace beginning with a given prefix. Useful to find subpages, for example: Special:PrefixIndex/User:Example.
• Special:ProtectedPages: lists protected pages.
• Special:ProtectedTitles: lists titles which have been protected to prevent pages being created there.
• Special:UnconnectedPages (Pages not connected to items): lists pages not connected with any item from Wikidata.

Tools

• Special:ApiHelp: MediaWiki API help.
• Special:ApiSandbox
• Special:Book (Manage your book): gives access to functionality for creating personalized sets of Wikipedia pages. See Book tool .
• Special:ComparePages: to compare two pages (diffs between two pages).
• Special:Diff: e.g. [[Special:Diff/611653557|<text>]] gives diff between version 611653557 and the preceding version of the same article, or [[Special:Diff/583498451/611653557|<text>]] gives diff between version 583498451 and 611653557, not necessarily of the same article, e.g. Special:Diff/330350877/611653557.
  • Special:MobileDiff/id1...id2: diffs in mobile version. e.g., Special:MobileDiff/548289653...567368971.
• Special:Export (Export pages): produces an XML file containing the wikitext and metadata of either the current version only, or all revisions, of one or more pages, specified in the form of a list; the XML file is in the format required for Special:Import; exporting is typically done either in preparation of applying the latter at another MediaWiki project, or for searching within old page revisions. See Help:Export .
• Special:Gadgets: lists gadgets that users can enable in their preferences.
• Special:MIMESearch: filters files for media type.
• Special:MovePage: for moving (renaming) a page (see Help:Moving a page ). The page must be given as a parameter.
• Special:Nearby: to see a list of articles around you (articles near your geographical location).
• Special:Random: redirects to a random page from the main namespace which is not a redirect. Other namespaces can be specified as a parameter, e.g. Special:Random/Talk. See Help:Random page for more details.
• Special:RandomInCategory (Random page in category): redirects to a random page within the specified category (can be from any namespace).
• Special:RandomRedirect: redirects to a random redirect page.
• Special:RandomRootpage: redirects to a random root page, that is, excluding sub-pages. Some wikis, such as Wikibooks, use a sub-page hierarchy. This function can be used there as a substitute for Special:Random, so it can be used to show "random books" in Wikibooks, instead of random pages.
• Special:Search: for searching Wikipedia. See Help:Searching .
• Special:TemplateSandbox
• Special:Upload (Upload file): upload a file to the wiki.
• Special:VipsTest (VIPS scaling test page)
• Special:WhatLinksHere: enables listing all pages linking to a given page (including transclusions and redirects). The target can be specified as a parameter, e.g. Special:WhatLinksHere/Swaziland. See Help:What links here .

Latest changes

• Special:AbuseFilter (Edit filter management): a set of tools for detecting problematic edits. See AbuseFilter .
• Special:AbuseLog (Edit filter log): the log generated by the Abuse Filter.
• Special:AdvancedReviewLog or Special:QualityOversight: listed recent approvals and deprecations of pending revisions. (deprecated in 2022; see phab:T277883)
• Special:ConfiguredPages (deprecated in 2022; see phab:T277883)
• Special:Log (All public logs): combined display of various logs. The type of log, user and page affected can be specified. Parameters "block", "delete", "protect" and "upload" are available. e.g. Special:Log/block displays the block log directly. For more information, see w:Help:Log.
• Special:NewFiles (Gallery of new files): gallery of new uploaded files.
• Special:NewPages: newest pages with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first edit summary, in reverse order of creation.
• Special:ProblemChanges (Tagged pending changes): tagged pending changes. (deprecated in 2021; see phab:T277883)
• Special:RecentChanges: lists the latest edits in the project. Changes to watched pages appear bold. See Help:Recent changes .
• Special:RecentChangesLinked (Related changes): enables listing of the most recent changes in pages linked from a selected page, or belonging to a selected category. Changes to watched pages appear bold. The page can be supplied as a parameter, e.g. Special:RecentChangesLinked/Lesotho. See Help:Related changes .
• Special:ReviewedPages (deprecated in 2021; see phab:T277883)
• Special:ReviewedVersions (deprecated in 2021; see phab:T277883)
• Special:Stabilization or Special:Stabilisation (deprecated in 2022; see phab:T277883)
• Special:Tags: lists the tags with which edits may be marked. See w:Wikipedia:Tags.
• Special:UnreviewedPages (deprecated in 2022; see phab:T277883)

Users

• Special:ActiveUsers (Active users list): lists editors who have performed at least one action in the last 30 days.
• Special:BlockList (Blocked users): blocked IPs and usernames.
• Special:Contributions (User contributions): enables listing of a user's contributions, or all new users' contributions. The user can be supplied as a parameter, e.g. Special:Contributions/Example. See Help:User contributions .
• Special:EmailUser: e.g. Special:EmailUser/Example.
• Special:ListGroupRights (User group rights): shows the rights assigned to user groups.
• Special:ListUsers (Users): lists all registered users. Can be filtered by group (e.g. administrators) and other criteria. Note that Special:ListAdmins redirects to Special:ListUsers/sysop.

Global users

• Special:CentralAuth (Global account information): global user statistics through the unified login or SUL (single user login). e.g. Special:CentralAuth/Jimbo Wales.
• Special:GlobalBlockList (List of globally blocked IP addresses): all IP addresses with global blocks.
• Special:GlobalGroupPermissions (Global group management): lists the rights associated with global user groups. Also lists the members of global user groups, and allows for management of rights.
• Special:GlobalUsers (Global accounts list): lists users across all Wikimedia wikis, along with global user group membership, and whether their account exists locally on English Wikipedia. Can also be filtered by global user groups.

Personal

• Special:CentralLogin (Central user log in)
• Special:ChangePassword, Special:ChangeEmail (Change or remove email address), Special:ConfirmEmail (Confirm email address) and Special:ResetTokens
• Special:Contributions (User contributions)
  • Special:MyContributions: links to your contributions page. See Help:User contributions .
• Special:EditWatchlist and Special:EditWatchlist/raw: To edit your watchlist.
• Special:MergeAccount (Login unification status): to create a unified account to log on to any Wikimedia project. See Help:Unified login .
• Special:MyPage: links to your user page.
• Special:MyTalk: links to your user talk page.
• Special:MyUploads (File list): lists files you have uploaded.
• Special:Notifications: links to your notifications page.
• Special:Preferences: allows you to view and modify your personal settings. See Help:Preferences .
• Special:TopicSubscriptions: topics on talk pages you are following.
• Special:UserLogin (Log in): to log in to Wikipedia. Special:UserLogin/signup (Create account) to create an account. See Help:Logging in .
• Special:UserLogout (Log out): to log out of your account.
• Special:Watchlist: shows recent changes to the pages you are watching. See Help:Watching pages .

Maintenance

• Special:BrokenRedirects: lists redirects that point a non-existent page. May contain false positives.
• Special:DisambiguationPages: lists all the disambiguation pages.
• Special:DisambiguationPageLinks (Pages linking to disambiguation pages), which lists all of the pages that link to disambiguation pages. (This is a replacement for the old Special:Disambiguations page which is deprecated.)
• Special:DoubleRedirects: lists redirects that redirect to another redirect. May contain false positives.
• Special:FileDuplicateSearch: Check to see if a certain file has a duplicate.
• Special:ListDuplicatedFiles: See all duplicated files on Wikipedia.
• Special:LongPages: pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size.
• Special:MostLinkedFiles (Most linked-to files): lists images and other files linked from the largest number of 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.
• Special:UncategorizedFiles: images and other files without category tags (see above).
• Special:UncategorizedPages: pages without category tags. Note that after adding a tag to a page, refreshing this page does not immediately reflect the change. Note also that Special:UncategorizedCategories is disabled.
• Special:UncategorizedTemplates: templates without category tags (see above).
• Special:UnusedCategories
• Special:UnusedFiles
• Special:UnusedTemplates: templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution).
• Special:WantedCategories: categories with members but no category page.
• Special:WantedFiles: missing image files and others.
• Special:WithoutInterwiki (Pages without language links): pages without links to other language Wikipedias.

Miscellaneous

• Special:Badtitle: The error message shown when attempting to access a page with an invalid title or with an incorrectly linked interwiki prefix. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%23 (%23 represents the number sign, which is unsupported) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/meatball:WikiPedia (meatball: cannot be directly linked in the URL) for examples. Note that this special page was intentionally and by design a red link.
• Special:BlankPage: a blank page.
• Special:BookSources: search sources for a book by inputting the book's ISBN number.
• Special:Captcha (CAPTCHA help): shows "Captcha" help.
• Special:Cite (Cite This Page): generates bibliographic citations, in several formats, for citing a Wikipedia article as a reference.
• Special:ExpandTemplates: an extension used to produce expanded wikitext, i.e. templates, parser functions and variables in the input text are expanded recursively. See also mw:Extension:ExpandTemplates.
• Special:FilePath (Redirect by file, user, page or revision ID): returns the complete path for a file.
• Special:Hieroglyphs (Try hieroglyph markup): to try out hieroglyph markup.
• Special:Interwiki (View interwiki data): view interwiki data.
• Special:LinkSearch (External links search): for searching for external links. See Help:Linksearch and mw:Help:Linksearch.
• Special:MobileOptions (Settings): change settings for Mobile view.
• Special:Permalink/Oldid: for linking to a specific version of a wiki page. See w:Help:Permanent link.
• Special:Random: a random page.
• Special:Redirect (Redirect by file, user, page or revision ID): Special:Redirect/revision/532639569 is equivalent to Special:Permalink/532639569
• Special:SecurePoll
• Special:WikiSets, shows a list of wiki sets

Restricted

The following pages can be accessed only by users with certain privileges.

• Special:Block: available to administrators. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
• Special:CheckUser: available to users with the checkuser privilege.
• Special:DeletedContributions: available to administrators.
• Special:Import: available to administrators and importers. See Help:Import .
• Special:LockDB and Special:UnlockDB: available only to Developers . Used to switch the database between read/write and read-only modes.
• Special:MassMessage: allows administrators and mass message senders to send a message to a list of users (help).
• Special:Nuke: available to administrators.
• Special:Undelete: available to administrators. Provides one way to undelete a page.
• Special:UnwatchedPages: available to administrators.
• Special:UserRights: can be read by anyone, however only administrators can use the page to assign and remove user access rights (e.g. rollbacker status).

Infrequently updated

The following special pages are updated on a less regular schedule. Some of these pages may have analogues on cloud services.

• Special:AncientPages (Dormant pages): pages in the main namespace, in order of last edit. See w:Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles. Updated on the 8th and 22nd of each month.
• Special:DeadendPages: pages without any outgoing links. Updated on the 9th and 23rd of each month.
• Special:FewestRevisions (Pages with the fewest revisions): lists articles with the fewest revisions. Updated on the 13th and 27th of each month.
• Special:LonelyPages (Orphaned pages): i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki. Updated on the 15th of every month.
• Special:MostCategories (Pages with the most categories): lists articles whose number of categories is largest. Updated on the 16th of every month.
• Special:MostLinkedCategories (Most linked-to categories): lists categories with the most pages. Updated on the 17th of every month.
• Special:MostLinkedPages (Most linked-to pages): lists pages linked from the largest number of other pages. Updated on the 10th and 24th of each month.
• Special:MostRevisions (Pages with the most revisions): lists articles with the most revisions. Updated on the 11th and 25th of each month.
• Special:MostTranscludedPages or Special:MostLinkedTemplates (Most transcluded pages): lists templates for which the number of pages in which the template is transcluded is largest, not counting transclusions through redirects. Updated on the 18th of every month.
• Special:UncategorizedCategories Updated on the 19th of every month.
• Special:WantedPages Updated on the 12th and 26th of each month.
• Special:WantedTemplates Updated on the 20th of every month.

Alphabetical order

A

• Special:AbuseFilter, Edit filter management
• Special:AbuseLog, Edit filter log
• Special:ActiveUsers, Active users list
• Special:AllMessages, System messages
• Special:AllMyUploads, File list
• Special:AllPages, All pages
• Special:AncientPages, Dormant pages
• Special:ApiFeatureUsage, Deprecated API feature usage
• Special:ApiHelp, MediaWiki API help
• Special:ApiSandbox, MediaWiki web service API sandbox
• Special:AutoblockList, list of active autoblocks

B

• Special:BannerLoader
• Special:BannerRandom, 410
• Special:BetaFeatures, Beta features
• Special:BlankPage, Blank page
• Special:Block, Block user
• Special:BlockList, Blocked users
• Special:Book, Manage your book
• Special:BookSources, Book sources given the 10- or 13-digit ISBN number
• Special:BotPasswords, Create bot passwords
• Special:BrokenRedirects, Broken redirects
• Special:BrokenLinks, Wanted pages. Redirects to Special:WantedPages.

C

• Special:Captcha, CAPTCHA help
• Special:Categories, Categories
• Special:CategoryTree, Category tree
• Special:CentralAuth, Global account information
• Special:CentralAutoLogin, Central login (use by the software); see next
• Special:CentralLogin, Central login
• Special:ChangeContentModel, Change content model of a page. Available only to template editors and administrators.
• Special:ChangeCredentials, For changing password
• Special:ChangeEmail, Change or remove email address
• Special:ChangePassword, For changing password
• Special:CheckUser, Check user. Available only to users with the CheckUser right.
• Special:CheckUserLog, CheckUser log
• Special:CiteThisPage, Cite this page
• Special:CollabPad
• Special:ComparePages, Compare differences between page A and B
• Special:ConfirmEmail, Confirm email address
• Special:Contribs, redirects to Special:Contributions
• Special:Contributions, List contributions of a user
• Special:CreateAccount, Create account
• Special:CreateMassMessageList, Create mass message delivery list

D

• Special:DeadendPages, Dead-end pages
• Special:DeletedContributions, Deleted user contributions
• Special:Diff, Display the difference between one version and another of a Wikipedia page
• Special:DisableGlobalBlock, Local status of global blocks
• Special:DisableOATHForUser
• Special:DisambiguationPageLinks, Pages linking to disambiguation pages
• Special:DisambiguationPages, Disambiguation pages
• Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration, Display Notifications configuration
• Special:DoubleRedirects, Double redirects

E

• Special:Edit, redirects to Special:EditPage
• Special:EditMassMessageList, Edit mass message delivery list
• Special:EditPage, edit a page
• Special:EditTags, For edit tags
• Special:EditWatchlist, Edit watchlist
• Special:EditWikiSets, Wiki sets
• Special:EmailUser, Email user
• Special:EntityUsage, Entity usage
• Special:ExpandTemplates, Expand templates
• Special:Export, Export pages

F

• Special:FeedItem, Feed item
• Special:FewestRevisions, Pages with the fewest revisions
• Special:FileDuplicateSearch, Search for duplicate files
• Special:FilePath, Redirect to a file
• Special:FileList, File list. Redirects to Special:ListFiles

G

• Special:Gadgets, List of Gadgets
• Special:GadgetUsage, Gadget usage statistics
• Special:GlobalBlock, Globally block IP addresses
• Special:GlobalBlockList, List of globally blocked IP addresses
• Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist, Local status of global blocks
• Special:GlobalGroupPermissions, Global group management
• Special:GloballyWantedFiles, Globally wanted files
• Special:GlobalRenameProgress, Global rename progress
• Special:GlobalRenameQueue, Global rename queue
• Special:GlobalRenameRequest, Global user account rename request
• Special:GlobalRenameUser, Globally rename user account
• Special:GlobalUnblock, Unblock globally blocked IP addresses
• Special:GlobalUsage, Global file usage
• Special:GlobalUserMerge, Merge user accounts
• Special:GlobalUserRights, Membership in global groups
• Special:GlobalUsers, Global accounts list
• Special:GoToInterwiki, (required value: valid project prefix), Hop into another project. Example: Special:GoToInterwiki/fr:
• Special:GraphSandbox, Graph sandbox

H

• Special:HideBanners, gives blank page
• Special:Hieroglyphs, Try hieroglyph markup
• Special:History, (required value; valid page name). Page history. Special:History/Example

I

• Special:Import, Import pages. Available only to administrators, importers, and transwiki importers.
• Special:Info, redirects to Special:PageInfo
• Special:Interwiki, View interwiki data
• Special:InvalidateEmail, invalidate e-mail. Parameter required.
• Special:Investigate, same as Special:CheckUser
• Special:InvestigateBlock, same as Special:CheckUser

L

• Special:LinkAccounts, Link accounts
• Special:LinkSearch, External links search
• Special:LintErrors, Lint errors (mw:Help:Extension:Linter)
• Special:ListAdmins, redirects to Special:ListUsers/sysop
• Special:ListBots, redirects to Special:ListUsers/bot
• Special:ListDuplicatedFiles, List of files with duplicates
• Special:ListGrants, Grants
• Special:ListGroupRights, User group rights
• Special:ListRedirects, Redirects
• Special:ListUsers, List of all users
• Special:LockDB, Lock database (disable write)
• Special:Log, All public logs
• Special:LonelyPages, Orphaned pages
• Special:LongPages, Long pages
• Special:Login, redirects to Special:UserLogin
• Special:Logout, redirects to Special:UserLogout

M

• Special:Map, Coordinates information
• Special:MassMessage, Send mass message
• Special:MathShowImage
• Special:MathStatus, Math status
• Special:MathWikibase, information of mathematical items
• Special:MediaStatistics, Media statistics about uploaded file types
• Special:MergeAccount, Login unification
• Special:MergeHistory, Merge page histories
• Special:MIMESearch, MIME search
• Special:MobileDiff, (required value: valid revision id). Shows diffs as they are shown on mobile web. Cf. Special:MobileDiff/1
• Special:MobileLanguages, parameter required. Only available on mobile view.
• Special:MobileOptions, Settings
• Special:MostCategories, Pages with the most categories
• Special:MostGloballyLinkedFiles, Most globally linked files
• Special:MostInterwikis, Pages with the most interwikis
• Special:MostLinkedCategories, Most linked-to categories
• Special:MostLinkedFiles, Most linked-to files
• Special:MostLinkedPages, Most linked-to pages
• Special:MostRevisions, Pages with the most revisions
• Special:MostTranscludedPages, Most transcluded pages
• Special:MovePage, (required value: valid page name). Example Special:MovePage/Main page
• Special:MultiLock, Lock and Unlock global accounts.
• Special:MyContributions, User contributions
• Special:MyLanguage, intended for multilingual sites. This special page goes to the page of the name supplied after the slash, e.g. Special:MyLanguage/Example goes to Example on this wiki. When an interwiki Page or an invalid page name is entered after the slash, this page redirects to Main page.
• Special:MyPage, User page for active user, also used for generic link to User/sandbox
• Special:MyTalk, Talk page of active user.
• Special:MyUploads, Uploads of active user

N

• Special:Nearby, articles nearby your geographical location
• Special:NewFiles, Gallery of new files
• Special:NewPages, New pages
• Special:Notifications, notifications
• Special:NotificationsMarkRead, Notification: Mark as read
• Special:Nuke, Mass delete

O

• Special:OATH, Enable two-factor authentication
• Special:OAuth, Outside application authorization
• Special:OAuthListConsumers, List OAuth applications
• Special:OAuthManageMyGrants, Manage connected applications
• Special:OrphanedTimedText, Orphaned TimedText pages
• Special:OrphanedPages, Orphaned pages

P

• Special:PageHistory, e.g. Special:PageHistory/Example is the page history for the page Example. Redirects to Special:History on mobile view.
• Special:PageInfo, information for a page
• Special:PagesWithBadges, Pages with badges (e.g. good article or featured article)
• Special:PasswordReset, Reset password
• Special:PermanentLink, A link to a specific version of a wiki page
• Special:Preferences, preferences
• Special:PrefixIndex, All pages with prefix
• Special:ProtectedPages, Protected pages
• Special:ProtectedTitles, Protected titles
• Special:ProvideSubmittedText, parameter required (e.g. Special:ProvideSubmittedText/Example)
• Special:Purge, refresh a page

Q

• Special:QueryBadges, redirects to Special:PagesWithBadges

R

• Special:Random, Random page
• Special:RandomInCategory, Random page in category
• Special:RandomRedirect, Random redirect
• Special:RandomRootpage
• Special:RecentChanges, Recent changes
• Special:RecentChangesLinked, Related changes
• Special:RecordImpression, blank page
• Special:Redirect, Redirect by file, user, page, revision, or log ID
• Special:RemoveCredentials
• Special:RenameUser, locally rename user. Used extremely rarely and available only to stewards.
• Special:ResetTokens, Reset tokens which allow access to certain private data associated with your account
• Special:RevisionDelete, used to delete revisions
• Special:RunJobs

S

• Special:Search, search
• Special:SecurePoll, list of polls
• Special:ShortPages, Short pages
• Special:SiteMatrix, Lists all Wikimedia wikis
• Special:SpecialPages, Special pages
• Special:Statistics, statistics

T

• Special:Tags, Tags that the software may mark an edit or logged action with, and their meaning
• Special:TemplateSandbox, Template sandbox
• Special:Thanks, Send thanks
• Special:TimedMediaHandler, redirects to Special:Transcode statistics
• Special:TrackingCategories, Tracking categories which are automatically populated by the MediaWiki software
• Special:TranscodeStatistics, redirects to Special:Transcode statistics
• Special:Transcode statistics, gives current transcoding status. Viewable only by autoconfirmed users.
• Special:TwoColConflictProvideSubmittedText, redirects to Special:ProvideSubmittedText
• Special:Two-factor authentication, Enable two-factor authentication

U

• Special:Unblock, Unblock user
• Special:UncategorizedCategories, Uncategorized categories
• Special:UncategorizedFiles, Uncategorized files
• Special:UncategorizedPages, Uncategorized pages
• Special:UncategorizedTemplates, Uncategorized templates
• Special:UnconnectedPages, Pages not connected to data items
• Special:Undelete, Search deleted pages; View and restore deleted pages
• Special:UnlinkAccounts
• Special:UnlockDB, opposite of LockDB
• Special:UnusedCategories, Unused categories
• Special:UnusedFiles, Unused files
• Special:UnusedTemplates, Unused templates
• Special:Upload, Upload file
• Special:Uploads, redirects to Special:ListFiles
• Special:UploadStash, Upload stash, files that are uploaded or in the process of uploading
• Special:UrlRedirector, redirects to Special:UrlShortener
• Special:UrlShortener, URL Shortener. Only available on meta.wikimedia.org.
• Special:UserLogin, log in
• Special:UserLogout, log out
• Special:UserMerge, merge users
• Special:UserRights, User groups management
• Special:UserGroupRights, redirects to Special:ListGroupRights
• Special:UserList, redirects to Special:ListUsers

V

• Special:Version, Version of MediaWiki in use, extensions installed, authors, etc.
• Special:VipsTest, VIPS scaling test page

W

• Special:WantedCategories, most red-linked categories
• Special:WantedFiles, most red-linked images
• Special:WantedPages, most red-linked articles
• Special:WantedTemplates, most red-linked templates
• Special:Watchlist, watchlist
• Special:WhatLinksHere, What links here
• Special:WikiSets, Wiki sets
• Special:WithoutInterwiki, Pages without language links
• Special:WikimediaWikis, Wikimedia wikis. Redirects to Special:SiteMatrix.
• Special:WithoutConnection, Pages not connected to data items

Linking and transcluding

To create a link to a special page:

• [[Special:PrefixIndex/HMS]] → Special:PrefixIndex/HMS

It can take a label:

• [[Special:PrefixIndex/HMS|All HMSs]] → All HMSs

To present the list on a page, transclude the name:

• {{Special:PrefixIndex/HMS}}

However, some pages cannot be transcluded and would produce only a wikilink (e.g., {{Special:Random}} → Special:Random). When non-existent pages are linked or transcluded, a red link is produced (e.g., Special:RedLinkExample).

More information on transcludable special pages can be found at w:Help:Transclusion#Special pages.

Links containing URL query strings

Because the ampersand character (&) is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing &action=edit or &redirect=no in the URL query string.

Special pages in other languages

The term in the site language equivalent to the English word "Special" and the special page name in English (e.g. "Special:Statistics") is used in each project, for example:

• "Especial:Estadísticas" in Spanish
• "Speciaal:Statistieken" in Dutch
• "Spécial:Statistiques" in French
• "Spezial:Statistik" in German

These also appear in the URLs. The English word "Special" and the special page name in English (e.g. "Special:Statistics") always works, even on foreign-language sites, but non-English equivalents don't work on English-language projects, nor on other-language project besides the language edition one is on.

See also

• Writing a new special page on the MediaWiki site
• Special page extensions: MediaWiki category

External links

• MediaWiki special page class definitions

Old logs on Meta, until Dec 2004:

• Meta:Block log – blocks and unblocks
• Meta:Deletion log – deleted and undeleted pages
• Meta:Protection log – protected and unprotected pages
• Meta:Upload log – list of images uploaded
• Log:Uploads – even older list of images uploaded

  Links to other help pages

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