Help:Special page

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Special pages are pages that have no wikitext, but are generated by the software on demand. They are found in the "Special:" namespace. It is not possible to make a redirect to a special page, or to create normal pages beginning with the "Special:" prefix.

Special pages often take arguments. Sometimes these can be supplied after a slash (as in Special:Log/block); in other cases an index.php call is used, as in http://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=3&limit=10. Also the content of some 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.

Modifying special pages

Although special pages are not themselves editable, they generally contain standard text which is modifiable (although only by administrators). This text is contained in pages in the MediaWiki namespace. To find the right portion of text, see Special:AllMessages. To propose a modification, leave an {{edit protected}} request on the talk page of the relevant MediaWiki page. An administrator will make the change if it seems appropriate.

Available special pages

General information

Page listings

Tools

Latest changes

Users

Personal

Maintenance

  • Special:BrokenRedirects: broken redirects.
  • Special:Disambiguations: shows pages that link to a disambiguation page, which should link to the appropriate topic instead. 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.
  • Special:DoubleRedirects: lists redirects that redirect to another redirect. May contain false positives.
  • Special:LongPages: pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size.
  • 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:MostLinkedFiles: lists images and other files linked from the largest number of pages.
  • Special:WithoutInterwiki: pages without links to other language WikiAlphas.
  • Special:UncategorizedPages: pages without category tags. Note that after adding a tag to a page, refreshing this page does not immediately reflect the change.

Special:UncategorizedCategories is for categories.

Miscellaneous

Restricted special pages

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

Inactive

The following special pages are stored, but are not currently updated.

Special pages in other languages

The term in the site language equivalent to English "Special" is used in each project. E.g. "Speciaal" in Dutch, "Spezial" in German, "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "מיוחד:" in Hebrew. These also appear in the URLs. However, the English word "Special" works as an alternative in most sites.

See also

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