Help:Special page

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Wikipedia data structure

Namespaces
Subject namespaces		Talk namespaces
0	(Main/Article)	Talk	1
2	User	User talk	3
4	Wikipedia	Wikipedia talk	5
6	File	File talk	7
8	MediaWiki	MediaWiki talk	9
10	Template	Template talk	11
12	Help	Help talk	13
14	Category	Category talk	15
100	Portal	Portal talk	101
118	Draft	Draft talk	119
126	MOS	MOS talk	127
710	TimedText	TimedText talk	711
828	Module	Module talk	829
1728	Event	Event talk	1729
Former namespaces
108	Book	Book talk	109
442	Course	Course talk	443
444	Institution	Institution talk	445
446	Education Program	Education Program talk	447
2300	Gadget	Gadget talk	2301
2302	Gadget definition	Gadget definition talk	2303
2600	Topic		2601
Virtual namespaces
-1	Special
-2	Media
Current list

Special pages (maintenance)	Information
Broken redirects
Dead-end pages	Dead-end pages
Dormant pages	Forgotten articles
Double redirects	Double redirects
Lonely pages	Orphaned articles
Long pages
New pages	New pages patrol
New pages feed	Page curation
Protected pages	Protection policy
Short pages
Uncategorized pages	Categorization
Uncategorized categories
Uncategorized templates
Unused categories
Unused files (images)
Unused templates
Without interwiki links
Most interwiki links
Wanted pages
Most-wanted articles
See also: Maintenance departments

Special pages are pages generated by the MediaWiki software on demand for specific or 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 create or add a redirect to a special page, the redirect will not be immediately followed (though special pages can be targets of soft redirects). Directly creating any pages beginning with the Special: prefix is not possible.

Special pages often take parameters, with some special pages accepting them after a slash (such as in Special:Log/block). In other cases, an index.php call is used instead; for example /w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=3&limit=10. The content shown in most special pages depends on the 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 Tools section of the sidebar on every Wikipedia page.

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:MediaWiki namespace.
• Special:NamespaceInfo, information about site namespaces.
• 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 Help: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:StablePages (Pages using Pending Changes): lists pages under pending changes protection.
• 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:AutomaticTranslation: sutomatic translation.
• Special:Book (Manage your book): gives access to functionality for creating personalized sets of Wikipedia pages. See Help:Books.
• Special:ComparePages: to compare two pages (diffs between two pages).
• Special:ContentTranslation: translate a page.
• 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:DownloadAsPdf: download a PDF file of page.
• 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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Random 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: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 Wikipedia:Edit filter.
• 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. It can be given one or two slash parameters, the first specifying the logged action type ("block", "delete", "protect", "upload"), and the second specifying the performer of the action. E.g. Special:Log/block, Special:Log/block/Jimbo Wales. For more information, see 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. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol.
  • Special:NewPagesFeed: for new page patrolling. See Wikipedia:Page Curation.
• Special:PendingChanges or Special:OldReviewedPages (Articles with edits awaiting review): articles with edits awaiting review. See Wikipedia:Pending changes.
• 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:RevisionReview
• Special:Stabilization or Special:Stabilisation (deprecated in 2022; see phab:T277883)
• Special:Tags: lists the tags with which edits may be marked. See 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:AutoblockList (Block users): list of active autoblocks.
• 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. For emailing users, see Wikipedia:Emailing users.
• 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:AccountSecurity: manage account security.
• 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:Homepage, curated suggested edits and impact statistics
• 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:Watchlist.

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; use Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized categories instead.
• 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 /%23 (%23 represents the number sign, which is unsupported) and /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 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:ValidationStatistics (Page review statistics): page review statistics for pending changes.
• 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 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:AccountSecurity, Manage account security
  • Special:Manage Two-factor authentication, Redirects to Special:AccountSecurity (alias)
  • Special:OATH Manage, Redirects to Special:AccountSecurity (alias)
  • Special:OATHManage, Redirects to Special:AccountSecurity (alias)
  • Special:OATH, Redirects to Special:AccountSecurity (alias)
  • Special:Two-factor authentication, Redirects to Special:AccountSecurity (alias)
  • Special:OATHAuth, Redirects to Special:AccountSecurity (alias)
• Special:ActiveUsers, Active users list
• Special:AllMessages, System messages
• Special:AllMyUploads, File list
  • Special:AllMyFiles, Redirects to Special:AllMyUploads (alias)
• 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
  • Special:ListAutoblocks, Redirects to Special:AutoblockList (alias)
• Special:AutomaticTranslation, Automatic translation
  • Special:MinT, Redirects to Special:AutomaticTranslation (alias)

B

• Special:BannerLoader, Used by CentralNotice to load fundraising or sitewide banners
• Special:BannerRandom, 410
• Special:BetaFeatures, Beta features
• Special:BlankPage, Blank page
• Special:BlockList, Blocked users
  • Special:ListBlocks, Redirects to Special:BlockList (alias)
  • Special:IPBlockList, Redirects to Special:BlockList (alias)
• Special:Block, Block user
  • Special:BlockIP, Redirects to Special:Block (alias)
  • Special:BlockUser, Redirects to Special:Block (alias)
• Special:BookSources, Book sources given the 10- or 13-digit ISBN number
• Special:Book, Manage your book
  • Special:Collection, Redirects to Special:Book (alias)
• Special:BotPasswords, Create bot passwords
• Special:BrokenRedirects, Broken redirects

C

• Special:Captcha, CAPTCHA help
• Special:Categories, Categories
• Special:CategoryTree, Category tree
• Special:CentralAuth, Global account information
  • Special:CA, Redirects to Special:CentralAuth (shortcut)
  • Special:GlobalAccount, Redirects to Special:CentralAuth (alias)
• Special:CentralAutoLogin, Central login (use by the software); see Special:CentralLogin
• Special:CentralLogin, Central login
• Special:ChangeContentModel, Change the 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:ResetPassword, Redirects to Special:ChangePassword (alias)
  • Special:ResetPass, Redirects to Special:ChangePassword (shortcut)
• Special:CheckUserLog, CheckUser log
• Special:CheckUser, Check user; available only to users with the CheckUser rights
• Special:CiteThisPage, Cite this page
  • Special:Cite, Redirects to Special:CiteThisPage (shortcut)
• Special:CollabPad, mw:CollabPad; real-time collaborative editing using the VisualEditor (experimental)
  • Special:Collab Pad, Redirects to Special:CollabPad (alias)
• Special:CommunityConfiguration, Community configuration
  • Special:CommunityConfig, Redirects to Special:CommunityConfiguration (shortcut)
• Special:ComparePages, Compare differences between page A and B
• Special:ConfirmEmail, Confirm email address
• Special:ContentTranslation, Translate a page
  • Special:CX, Redirects to Special:ContentTranslation (shortcut)
• Special:Contributions, Lists contributions of a user
  • Special:Contribs, Redirects to Special:Contributions (shortcut)
• Special:CreateAccount, Create account
• Special:CreateMassMessageList, Create mass message delivery list

D

• Special:DeadendPages, Dead-end pages
• Special:DeletedContributions, Deleted user contributions
  • Special:DeletedContribs, Redirects to Special:DeletedContributions (shortcut)
• Special:DeletePage, Delete page
  • Special:Delete, Redirects to Special:DeletePage (shortcut)
• Special:Diff, Display the difference between one version and another of a Wikipedia page
• Special:DisableGlobalBlock, Local status of global blocks
• Special:DisableOATHForUser, Allows administrators to disable two-factor authentication (2FA) for another user's account
• Special:DisambiguationPageLinks, Pages linking to disambiguation pages
• Special:DisambiguationPages, Lists disambiguation pages
• Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration, Display Notifications configuration
• Special:DoubleRedirects, Lists double redirects
• Special:DownloadAsPdf (parameter required), Download a page as a PDF
  • Special:ElectronPDF, Redirects to Special:DownloadAsPdf (alias)

E

• Special:EditChecks, Configure and monitor edit checks; see Wikipedia:Edit check
  • Special:Edit checks, Redirects to Special:EditChecks (alias)
• Special:EditMassMessageList, Edit mass message delivery list
• Special:EditPage, Edit a page
  • Special:Edit, Redirects to Special:EditPage (shortcut)
• Special:EditTags, For edit tags
• Special:EditWatchlist, Edit watchlist
• Special:EditWikiSets, Wiki sets
• Special:EmailUser, Email user
  • Special:Email, Redirects to Special:EmailUser (shortcut)
• Special:EntityUsage, Entity usage
  • Special:EntityUsageData, Redirects to Special:EntityUsage (alias)
• 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

G

• Special:GadgetUsage, Gadget usage statistics
• Special:Gadgets, List of gadgets
• Special:GlobalContributions, Global contributions
  • Special:GlobalContribs, Redirects to Special:GlobalContributions (shortcut)
• Special:GlobalBlockList, List of globally blocked IP addresses
  • Special:ListGlobalBlocks, Redirects to Special:GlobalBlockList (alias)
• Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist, Local status of global blocks
  • Special:GlobalBlockStatus, Redirects to Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist (alias)
  • Special:DisableGlobalBlock, Redirects to Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist (alias)
• Special:GlobalBlock, Globally block IP addresses
• Special:GlobalGroupPermissions, Global group management
• 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:RemoveGlobalBlock, Redirects to Special:GlobalUnblock (alias)
• Special:GlobalUsage, Global file usage
• Special:GlobalUserRights, Membership in global groups
  • Special:GlobalGroupMembership, Redirects to Special:GlobalUserRights (alias)
• Special:GlobalUsers, Global accounts list
• Special:GloballyWantedFiles, Globally wanted files
• Special:GoToComment, Permanent link to talk page comment; see mw:how it works
• Special:GoToInterwiki (required value: valid project prefix), Hop into another project; example: Special:GoToInterwiki/fr:

H

• Special:HideBanners, Used by CentralNotice to allow users to hide fundraising or sitewide banners
• Special:Hieroglyphs, Try hieroglyph markup
• Special:History (required value: valid page name), Page history; example: Special:History/Wikipedia:Sandbox

I

• Special:Impact, Without a parameter it shows your impact on Wikipedia; can be used to specify another user with their username followed after the slash symbol
• Special:Import, Import pages; available only to administrators, importers, and transwiki importers
• Special:Interwiki, View interwiki data
• Special:InvalidateEmail (parameter required), Invalidate e-mail
• Special:InvestigateBlock, part of the Special:CheckUser toolset
• Special:Investigate, part of the Special:CheckUser toolset
• Special:IPContributions, Contributions for an anonymous editor's IP address
  • Special:IPContribs, Redirects to Special:IPContributions (shortcut)

L

• Special:LinkAccounts, Link accounts
• Special:LinkSearch, External links search
• Special:LintErrors, Lint errors (mw:Help:Extension:Linter)
• Special:ListDuplicatedFiles, List of files with duplicates
  • Special:ListFileDuplicates, Redirects to Special:ListDuplicatedFiles (alias)
• Special:ListFiles, File list
  • Special:FileList, Redirects to Special:ListFiles (alias)
  • Special:ImageList, Redirects to Special:ListFiles (alias)
  • Special:Uploads, Redirects to Special:ListFiles
• Special:ListGrants, Grants
• Special:ListGroupRights, User group rights
  • Special:UserGroupRights, Redirects to Special:ListGroupRights (alias)
• Special:ListRedirects, Lists redirect pages
• Special:ListUsers, List of all users
  • Special:ListAdmins, Redirects to Special:ListUsers/sysop
  • Special:ListBots, Redirects to Special:ListUsers/bot
  • Special:UserList, Redirects to Special:ListUsers (alias)
  • Special:Users, Redirects to Special:ListUsers (shortcut)
• Special:LockDB, Lock database (disable write)
• Special:Log, All public logs
  • Special:Logs, Redirects to Special:Log (alias)
• Special:LonelyPages, Orphaned pages
  • Special:OrphanedPages, Redirects to Special:LonelyPages (alias)
• Special:LongPages, Long pages

M

• Special:MIMESearch, MIME search
• Special:ManageMentors, List of mentors
• Special:Map, Coordinates information
• Special:MassGlobalBlock, Mass global block
  • Special:MultiGlobalBlock, Redirects to Special:MassGlobalBlock (alias)
• Special:MassMessage, Send mass message
• Special:MathShowImage, Render mathematical formulas from TeX input into images
• 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:MobileDiff (required value: valid revision id), Shows diffs as they are shown on mobile web; cf. Special:MobileDiff/1
• Special:MobileLanguages (parameter required), Different language versions for mobile; only available on mobile view
• Special:MobileOptions, Settings for mobile version
• 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:MostUsedCategories, Redirects to Special:MostLinkedCategories (alias)
• Special:MostLinkedFiles, Most linked-to files
  • Special:MostFiles, Redirects to Special:MostLinkedFiles (shortcut)
  • Special:MostImages, Redirects to Special:MostLinkedFiles (alias)
• Special:MostLinkedPages, Most linked-to pages
  • Special:MostLinked, Redirects to Special:MostLinkedPages (shortcut)
• Special:MostRevisions, Pages with the most revisions
• Special:MostTranscludedPages, Most transcluded pages
  • Special:MostLinkedTemplates, Redirects to Special:MostTranscludedPages (alias)
  • Special:MostUsedTemplates, Redirects to Special:MostTranscludedPages (alias)
• Special:MovePage (required value: valid page name), Move page; example Special:MovePage/Main page
• Special:MultiLock, Lock and unlock global accounts
• Special:MyContributions, User contributions
  • Special:MyContribs, Redirects to Special:MyContributions (shortcut)
• 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 the 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
  • Special:MyFiles, Redirects to Special:MyUploads (alias)

N

• Special:NamespaceInfo, Information about site namespaces
• Special:Nearby, Articles nearby your geographical location
• Special:NewFiles, Gallery of new files
  • Special:NewImages, Redirects to Special:NewFiles (alias)
• Special:NewPagesFeed, New pages feed
• Special:NewPages, New pages
• Special:NotificationsMarkRead, Notification: Mark as read
• Special:Notifications, Notifications
• Special:Nuke, Mass delete

O

• Special:OATH, Enable two-factor authentication
  • Special:MWOAuth, Redirects to Special:OATH (alias)
• Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration, Register OAuth applications
  • Special:OAuthRegistration, Redirects to Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration (shortcut)
• Special:OAuthListConsumers, List OAuth applications
• Special:OAuthManageMyGrants, Manage connected applications
  • Special:OAuthGrants, Redirects to Special:OAuthManageMyGrants (alias)
• Special:OAuth, Outside application authorization (OAuth)
• Special:OldReviewedPages, Articles with edits awaiting review
• Special:OrphanedTimedText, Orphaned TimedText pages

P

• Special:PageAssessments, Page assessments
• Special:PageHistory, Page history, e.g. Special:PageHistory/Example is the page history for the page Example; redirects to Special:History in mobile view
  • Special:History, Redirects to Special:PageHistory (shortcut)
• Special:PageInfo, Information for a page
  • Special:Info, Redirects to Special:PageInfo (shortcut)
• Special:PagesWithBadges, Pages with badges, e.g. good article or featured article
  • Special:QueryBadges, Redirects to Special:PagesWithBadges (alias)
• Special:PagesWithProp, List pages that use a specific page property
  • Special:PagesByProp, Redirects to Special:PagesWithProp (alias)
• Special:PasswordReset, Reset password
• Special:PendingChanges, Articles with edits awaiting review
  • Special:OldReviewedPages, Redirects to Special:PendingChanges (alias)
• Special:PermanentLink, A link to a specific version of a wiki page
  • Special:PermaLink, Redirects to Special:PermanentLink (shortcut)
• Special:Preferences, User preference settings
• Special:PrefixIndex, All pages with prefix
• Special:ProtectedPages, List protected pages
• Special:ProtectedTitles, List protected titles
• Special:ProtectPage, Protect a page
  • Special:Protect, Redirects to Special:ProtectPage (alias)
• Special:ProvideSubmittedText (parameter required, e.g. Special:ProvideSubmittedText/Example), Processes user-submitted text, often via a form or editing conflict
  • Special:TwoColConflictProvideSubmittedText, Redirects to Special:ProvideSubmittedText
• Special:Purge, Refresh a page and purge its cache

R

• Special:RandomInCategory, Random page in category
• Special:RandomRedirect, Random redirect
• Special:RandomRootpage, Random root page (a page without a forward slash in its title, ie. not a subpage)
• Special:Random, Random page
  • Special:RandomPage, Redirects to Special:Random (alias)
• Special:RecentChangesLinked, Related changes
  • Special:RelatedChanges, Redirects to Special:RecentChangesLinked (alias)
• Special:RecentChanges, Recent changes
• Special:RecordImpression, Used by CentralNotice to log, record, and track the impressions (views) of site banners
• Special:Redirect, Redirect by file, user, page, revision, or log ID
• Special:RemoveCredentials, Manage and remove security credentials from an account
• 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, Delete revisions
• Special:RevisionReview, Review flagged page revisions
• Special:RunJobs, Initiates running of background tasks

S

• Special:Search, Search
• Special:SecurePoll, List of polls
• Special:ShortPages, Short pages
• Special:SiteMatrix, Lists all Wikimedia wikis
  • Special:WikimediaWikis, Redirects to Special:SiteMatrix (alias)
• Special:SpecialPages, Special pages
• Special:StablePages, Pages using Pending Changes protection
• Special:Statistics, Statistics
  • Special:Stats, Redirects to Special:Statistics (shortcut)

T

• Special:Tags, Tags that the software may mark an edit or logged action with, and their meaning
• Special:TemplateDiscovery, Find a template by name, keyword, or category
  • Special:Template Discovery, Redirects to Special:TemplateDiscovery (alias)
  • Special:TemplateSearch, Redirects to Special:TemplateDiscovery (alias)
• Special:TemplateSandbox, Template sandbox
• Special:Thanks, Send thanks
• Special:TrackingCategories, Tracking categories which are automatically populated by the MediaWiki software
• Special:Transcode statistics, Gives current transcoding status; viewable only by autoconfirmed users
  • Special:TimedMediaHandler, Redirects to Special:Transcode statistics (alias)
  • Special:TranscodeStatistics, Redirects to Special:Transcode statistics (alias)
• Special:Two-factor authentication, Enable two-factor authentication

U

• Special:Unblock, Unblock user
• Special:UncategorizedCategories, Uncategorized categories
• Special:UncategorizedFiles, Uncategorized files
  • Special:UncategorizedImages, Redirects to Special:UncategorizedFiles (alias)
• Special:UncategorizedPages, Uncategorized pages
• Special:UncategorizedTemplates, Uncategorized templates
• Special:UnconnectedPages, Pages not connected to data items
  • Special:WithoutConnection, Redirects to Special:UnconnectedPages (alias)
  • Special:WithoutSitelinks, Redirects to Special:UnconnectedPages (alias)
• Special:Undelete, Search deleted pages; View and restore deleted pages
• Special:UnlinkAccounts, Unlink accounts
• Special:UnlockDB, Opposite of LockDB
• Special:UnusedCategories, Unused categories
• Special:UnusedFiles, Unused files
  • Special:UnusedImages, Redirects to Special:UnusedFiles (alias)
• Special:UnusedTemplates, Unused templates
• Special:UploadStash, Upload stash, files that are uploaded or in the process of uploading
• Special:Upload, Upload file
• Special:UrlShortener, URL shortener; only available on meta.wikimedia.org
  • Special:UrlRedirector, Redirects to Special:UrlShortener
• Special:UserLogin, User login page
  • Special:Login, Redirects to Special:UserLogin (shortcut)
• Special:UserLogout, User logout page
  • Special:Logout, Redirects to Special:UserLogout (shortcut)
• Special:UserRights, User groups management
  • Special:MakeSysop, Redirects to Special:UserRights (alias)
  • Special:MakeBot, Redirects to Special:UserRights (alias)

V

• Special:ValidationStatistics, Page review statistics
• Special:Version, Version of MediaWiki in use, extensions installed, authors, etc.
  • Special:Versions, Redirects to Special:Version (alias)

W

• Special:WantedCategories, Most red-linked categories
• Special:WantedFiles, Most red-linked images
• Special:WantedPages, Most red-linked articles
  • Special:BrokenLinks, Redirects to Special:WantedPages (alias)
• Special:WantedTemplates, Most red-linked templates
• Special:Watchlist, Watchlist
• Special:WhatLinksHere, "What links here?"; lists links, redirects, and transclusions which link to a page
• Special:WikiSets, Wiki sets
  • Special:EditWikiSets, Redirects to Special:WikiSets (alias)
• Special:WithoutConnection, Pages not connected to data items
• Special:WithoutInterwiki, Pages without language links

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 Help:Transclusion#Special pages.

Links containing URL query strings

Main page: Help:Link § 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
• Help:Special page on Meta

External links

• MediaWiki special page class definitions