Help:Special page
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This is a list of special pages which are available from Special:Specialpages.
The box on the right shows links to editable versions of some of these pages, which might be protected and only editable by sysops.
Special pages for all users
- Preferences
- Special:Preferences : Set your user preferences. (Preferences help)
- My watchlist
- Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)
- Recent changes
- Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits on Wikipedia. (Recent changes help)
- Upload file
- Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki. (Upload help)
- Image list
- Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date
- User list
- Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users.
- Admins list
- Special:Listadmins : A list of all Wikipedia:Administrators
- Statistics
- Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users (see also Wikipedia:Statistics)
- Random page
- Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page
- Orphaned pages
- Special:Lonelypages : Wikipedia:Orphaned articles
- Unused images
- Special:Unusedimages
- Wanted pages
- Special:Wantedpages : Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
- Short pages
- Special:Shortpages : Wikipedia:Shortpages
- Long pages
- Special:Longpages : Wikipedia:Longpages
- New pages
- Special:Newpages : new pages in the main namespace
- Oldest pages
- Special:Ancientpages
- Dead-end pages
- Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links. Wikipedia:Deadend pages
- All pages
- Special:Allpages : Wikipedia:All pages by title : May be temporarily disabled.
- List of blocked IP addresses and usernames
- Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames
- Book sources
- Special:Booksources : Wikipedia:ISBN
- Categories
- Special:Categories : Wikipedia:Categorization
- 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).
- Version
- Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running
- Wikimedia Board of Trustees election
- Special:Boardvote : Voting software for the now finished elections
Restricted special pages
- Block user
- Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
- Restore deleted page
- Special:Undelete : Sysop only. One way to undelete a page.
- Make a user into a sysop
- Special:Makesysop : Bureaucrat only.
- 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.
- Show process list
- Special:ShowProcesslist : Developer only.
- SQL query
- Special:Asksql : Sysop only. Database interface for running queries. Currently disabled.
- All system messages
- Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Currently disabled.
- Unicode Converter
- Special:UnicodeConverter : Converts Unicode to HTML entities : Not currently available on the English Wikipedia
- Import pages
- Special:Import : Sysop only. Imports a page from another wiki. Currently disabled.
- Popular pages
- Special:Popularpages : The most visited pages. Currently disabled.
- Maintenance page
- Special:Maintenance : Currently disabled.
Logs
- Wikipedia:Block log - blocks and unblocks
- Wikipedia:Deletion log - deleted and undeleted pages
- Wikipedia:Protection log - protected and unprotected pages
- Wikipedia:Upload log - list of images uploaded