Help:Special page

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The namespace "Special:" consists of "special pages". These have no corresponding wikitext; they are created by the software on demand. They are useful to see things going on in the wiki or looking at the wiki's statistics. This page is probably more useful for experienced users, though new users may also find it beneficial.

Contents 1 Special pages for all users 2 Restricted special pages 3 Logs 4 Miscellaneous

[edit] Special pages for all users

All of the below linked Special pages produce content particular to this wiki.

Special pages 

Special:Specialpages : A list of all special pages for all users.

Recent changes 

Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits in the project.

Upload file 

Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki.

Image list 

Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date

New images 

Special:Newimages : Gallery of new files.

User list 

Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users. Unfortunately, this lists users across all of Wikia, not just this wiki.

Admins list 

Special:Listadmins : A list of all administrators; an automatic list is at Special:Listusers/Sysop.

Statistics 

Special:Statistics : Total number of pages, images, and users.

Random page 

Special:Randompage : Redirects to a random page from the main namespace which is not a redirect. Other namespaces can be specified as a parameter, eg: Special:Randompage/Talk.

Orphaned pages 

Special:Lonelypages : Articles articles with no links to them in the wiki.

Uncategorized pages 

Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags. This page refreshes once or twice a day, so if you placed a category on a page without one, you will still see it listed on this page for awhile.

Unused images 

Special:Unusedimages

Wanted pages 

Special:Wantedpages : Articles which have been requested / most wanted, specifically those that have at least 2 incoming links, but do not exist.

Short pages 

Special:Shortpages : Pages in the main namespace, with size of the wikitext (excluding any templates used) in bytes, in order of increasing size.

Long pages 

Special:Longpages : Pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size.

New pages 

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.

Oldest pages 

Special:Ancientpages : Pages in the main namespace, with date and time of last edit, in order of last edit.

Dead-end pages 

Special:Deadendpages : Pages that do not link to any other articles.

Most categories 

Special:Mostcategories : Articles with the most categories.

Most revisions 

Special:Mostrevisions : Articles with the most revisions (edits).

All pages 

Special:Allpages : All pages in a specified namespace in alphabetical order, including redirects (italized).

All system messages 

Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.

Pages starting with a given prefix 

Special:Prefixindex; if the last character of the prefix is a space or underscore it is ignored. One of many important applications is to find subpages with "fullpagename/".

Find external links

Special:Linksearch

List of blocked IP addresses and usernames 

Special:Ipblocklist : Currently blocked IPs and usernames.

Book sources 

Special:Booksources : ISBN Book Sources.

Categories 

Special:Categories : Lists all the categories in the wiki.

Uncategorized categories 

Special:Uncategorizedcategories

Export pages 

Special:Export : 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.

Version 

Special:Version : Shows the version of the MediaWiki software the wiki is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed.

Captcha

Special:Captcha : On projects supporting this feature.

Confirm your email address

Special:Confirmemail

My preferences 

Special:Preferences : Select preferences to customize the appearance and behaviour of the software. Editing your preferences will affect them across Wikia. See Help:Preferences.

My watchlist 

Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching.

My page 

Special:Mypage : Link to the user page of the user who follows it.

My talk page 

Special:Mytalk : Link to the talk page of the user who follows it.

Login 

Special:Userlogin : Creates new login cookie.

Logout 

Special:Userlogout : Destroys cookie.

Links to disambiguation pages

Special:Disambiguations : List of pages linked to a disambiguation page, each with the link target; a disambiguation page is defined as a page on which a disambiguation template is transcluded; a disambiguation template is defined as a template linked from MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage.

[edit] Restricted special pages

Block user 

Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.

Import pages 

Special:Import : Sysop only. Imports the wikitext and metadata of one or more revisions of one or more pages by uploading an XML file in the format produced by Special:Export (typically after applying the latter at another MediaWiki project).

Unwatched pages 

Special:Unwatchedpages : Sysop only. Shows pages not watched by any user.

Restore deleted page 

Special:Undelete : Sysop only. View deleted pages.

[edit] Logs

Special:Log - Combined display of various logs. You can narrow down the view by:

• Selecting a log type, including:
  • Block log - Blocks and unblocks.
  • Protection log - Protected and unprotected pages.
  • User rights log - Dates when users were given admin status or had it removed.
  • Deletion log - Deleted and undeleted pages.
  • Upload log - List of images uploaded.
  • Move log - Pages moved.
  • Import log - Imports.
  • Rollback rights log - Changes to non-sysops' rollback rights.
• entering the full name without prefix of the acting user (usual case-sensitivity)
• entering the full name of the affected page (usual case-sensitivity, e.g. "Image:Map South Holland.png"), or the full name including prefix of the affected user (in the case of blocking, setting user rights, setting bot status, and user creation) or without prefix (in the case of renaming a user)

It does not seem possible to search by editor for edits of deleted pages. They can only be seen by a sysop with Special:Undelete if the exact page name is known.

There are no logs available on the site for:

• adding or removing a page from a user's list of page to watch (the user can only view the current state)
• change of preferences of a user (ditto)
• viewing a page
• editing and previewing a page without saving
• applying Special:Export
• unfinished operations (e.g. an attempted page move)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Special pages can be linked to as usual, like Special:Recentchanges.

• Special pages requiring a target page may give an error message if the target is not supplied:

Special:Recentchangeslinked/Help:Template

Special:Whatlinkshere/Help:Template

or prompt for the target if it was not supplied yet; with target the link is e.g.

Special:Linksearch/*.kennisnet.nl

• Special pages requiring a target user:

Special:Contributions/User

• Special page allowing a starting page:

Special:Allpages/Template (Standard prefixes are ignored, compare Special:Allpages/Template:C)

In some cases the full URL has to be given, like an external link, for example http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes).

Special:Random/Template

• Some special pages can be included, such as Newpages, Wantedpages, Allpages, Prefixindex, and Recentchanges.

{{Special:Newpages/5}} gives 5 new pages: