Special Pages

A group of pages, in alphabetical order, that goes more indepth than the normal "Special Pages" page. It also gives a brief description of what the page does.

A

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• Special:AbuseLog: This displays a log of all edits triggered by the abuse filters.
  
• Special:ActiveUsers: This lists all users who have been active recently.
  
• Special:AllMessages: This displays all system messages used by the wiki.
  
• Special:AllMyUploads: This lists all files uploaded by you.
  
• Special:AllPages: This lists all pages in the wiki.
  
• Special:AncientPages: This lists pages that have not been edited for a long time.
  
• Special:ApiHelp: Provides help and documentation for the MediaWiki API.
  
• Special:ApiSandbox: Allows you to test and interact with the MediaWiki API.
  
• Special:AutoblockList: This displays a list of active autoblocks on the wiki.

B

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• Special:BlankPage: This displays a blank page.
  
• Special:Block: Blocks a user from editing.
  
• Special:BlockList: This lists all blocked users.
  
• Special:BookSources: This finds book sources using a 10-13-digit ISBN.
  
• Special:BotPasswords: Creates passwords for bots.
  
• Special:BrokenRedirects: This lists broken redirects.
  
• Special:BrokenLinks: This redirects to Special:WantedPages, showing wanted pages.

C

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• Special:Categories: This displays all categories on the wiki.
  
• Special:ChangeContentModel: This allows template editors and administrators to change the content model of a page.
  
• Special:ChangeCredentials: This facilitates changing credentials, typically passwords.
  
• Special:ChangeEmail: This enables changing or removing email addresses associated with an account.
  
• Special:ChangePassword: This provides functionality for changing passwords.
  
• Special:ComparePages: Compares the differences between two pages.
  
• Special:ConfirmEmail: Confirms the email address associated with an account.
  
• Special:Contribs: This redirects to Special:Contributions, listing a user's contributions.
  
• Special:Contributions: This lists the contributions made by a user.
  
• Special:CreateAccount: This allows users to create new accounts.

d

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• Special:DeadendPages: This lists pages without outgoing links, known as dead-end pages.
  
• Special:DeletedContributions: This displays contributions made by deleted users.
  
• Special:Diff: This shows the difference between two versions of a MediaWiki page.
  
• Special:DoubleRedirects: This lists pages that redirect to other redirect pages, known as double redirects.

e

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• Special:Edit and Special:EditPage: This redirects to ?action=edit, allowing you to edit a page.
  
• Special:EditTags: Manages edit tags.
  
• Special:EditWatchlist: Edits your watchlist.
  
• Special:EmailUser: Allows you send an email to a user.
  
• Special:ExpandTemplates: This expands templates.
  
• Special:Export: Exports pages.

f

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Special:FewestRevisions: This lists pages with the fewest revisions.
Special:FileDuplicateSearch: Searches for duplicate files.
Special:FilePath: This redirects to a file.
Special:FileList: This redirects to Special:ListFiles, displaying a list of files.

g

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• Special:GoToInterwiki: Allows you to navigate to another project using a valid project prefix.

h

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• Special:History: Alias for Special:PageHistory

i

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• Special:Import: Allows administrators, importers, and transwiki importers to import pages.
  
• Special:Info: This redirects to Special:PageInfo.
  
• Special:InvalidateEmail: Invalidates an email address. Parameter required.

l

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• Special:LinkAccounts: Allows users to link accounts.
  
• Special:LinkSearch: This conducts an external link search.
  
• Special:ListAdmins: This redirects to Special:ListUsers/sysop, listing administrators.
  
• Special:ListBots: This redirects to Special:ListUsers/bot, listing bots.
  
• Special:ListDuplicatedFiles: This lists files with duplicates.
  
• Special:ListGrants: This displays grants.
  
• Special:ListGroupRights: This lists user group rights.
  
• Special:ListRedirects: This is a list of redirects.
  
• Special:ListUsers: This lists all users.
  
• Special:LockDB: Locks the database, disabling write access.
  
• Special:Log: This displays all public logs.
  
• Special:LonelyPages: This lists orphaned pages.
  
• Special:LongPages: This lists long pages.
  
• Special:Login: This redirects to Special:UserLogin, initiating the login process.
  
• Special:Logout: This redirects to Special:UserLogout, initiating the logout process.

m

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• Special:MediaStatistics: This displays statistics about uploaded file types.
  
• Special:MergeHistory: Merges page histories.
  
• Special:MIMESearch: Conducts a MIME search.
  
• Special:MostCategories: This lists pages with the most categories.
  
• Special:MostInterwikis: This lists pages with the most interwikis.
  
• Special:MostLinkedCategories: This lists the most linked-to categories.
  
• Special:MostLinkedFiles: This lists the most linked-to files.
  
• Special:MostLinkedPages: This lists the most linked-to pages.
  
• Special:MostRevisions: This lists pages with the most revisions.
  
• Special:MostTranscludedPages: This lists the most transcluded pages.
  
• Special:MovePage: Allows moving a page. Example: Special:MovePage/Main page.
  
• Special:MyContributions: This redirects to Special:Contributions, listing the current user's contributions.
  
• Special:MyLanguage: This redirects to the page named after the slash in the user's interface language. Example: Special:MyLanguage/Example.
  
• Special:MyPage: This redirects to your user page.
  
• Special:MyTalk: This redirects to the talk page of the active user.
  
• Special:MyUploads: This lists uploads of the active user.

n

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• Special:NamespaceInfo: View information about site namespaces.
  
• Special:NewFiles: Shows a gallery of new files.
  
• Special:NewPages: This lists new pages.
  
• Special:Nuke: Performs a mass deletion of pages.

O

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• Special:OrphanedPages: Alias for Special:LonelyPages

p

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• Special:PageHistory: Redirects to ?action=history, which displays the history of a specific page. For example, Special:History/Example shows the history of the page named "Example".
  
• Special:PageInfo: Provides information for a page.
  
• Special:PasswordReset: Allows users to reset their password.
  
• Special:PermanentLink: Provides a link to a specific version of a wiki page.
  
• Special:Preferences: Accesses user preferences.
  
• Special:PrefixIndex: This lists all pages with a given prefix.
  
• Special:ProtectedPages: This lists protected pages.
  
• Special:ProtectedTitles: This lists protected titles.
  
• Special:Purge: Refreshes a page.

r

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• Special:Random: This redirects to a random page.
  
• Special:RandomInCategory: This redirects to a random page in a specified category.
  
• Special:RandomRedirect: This redirects to a random redirect page.
  
• Special:RandomRootpage: This redirects to a random root page.
  
• Special:RecentChanges: This displays recent changes.
  
• Special:RecentChangesLinked: This displays related changes.
  
• Special:Redirect: This redirects by file, user, page, revision, or log ID.
  
• Special:RemoveCredentials: Removes credentials.
  
• Special:RenameUser: Locally renames a user. Available only to stewards and used extremely rarely.
  
• Special:ResetTokens: Resets tokens allowing access to certain private data associated with your account.
  
• Special:RevisionDelete: This is used to delete revisions.
  
• Special:RunJobs: This initiates the running of jobs.

s

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• Special:Search: Initiates a search.
  
• Special:ShortPages: This lists short pages.
  
• Special:SpecialPages: This lists special pages.
  
• Special:Statistics: This displays statistics.

t

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• Special:Tags: This displays tags that the software may mark an edit or logged action with, and their meanings.
  
• Special:TrackingCategories: This lists tracking categories automatically populated by the MediaWiki software.

u

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• Special:Unblock: Unblocks a user.
  
• Special:UncategorizedCategories: This lists uncategorized categories.
  
• Special:UncategorizedFiles: This lists uncategorized files.
  
• Special:UncategorizedPages: This lists uncategorized pages.
  
• Special:UncategorizedTemplates: This lists uncategorized templates.
  
• Special:UnconnectedPages: This lists pages not connected to data items.
  
• Special:Undelete: Searches deleted pages and allows viewing and restoring of deleted pages.
  
• Special:UnlinkAccounts: Unlinks accounts.
  
• Special:UnlockDB: Opposite of LockDB, unlocks the database, enabling write access.
  
• Special:UnusedCategories: This lists unused categories.
  
• Special:UnusedFiles: This lists unused files.
  
• Special:UnusedTemplates: This lists unused templates.
  
• Special:Upload: Uploads a file.
  
• Special:Uploads: This redirects to [[Special:ListFiles, listing uploaded files.
  
• Special:UploadStash: This displays files that are uploaded or in the process of uploading (upload stash).
  
• Special:UserLogin: Initiates the login process.
  
• Special:UserLogout: Initiates the logout process.
  
• Special:UserRights: Manages user groups.
  
• Special:UserGroupRights: This redirects to Special:ListGroupRights.
  
• Special:UserList: This redirects to Special:ListUsers, listing users.

v

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• Special:Version: This displays the version of MediaWiki in use, installed extensions, authors, and other relevant information.

w

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• Special:WantedCategories: This lists the most red-linked categories.
  
• Special:WantedFiles: This lists the most red-linked images.
  
• Special:WantedPages: This lists the most red-linked articles.
  
• Special:WantedTemplates: This lists the most red-linked templates.
  
• Special:Watchlist: This displays the watchlist.
  
• Special:WhatLinksHere: Shows what pages link to the current page.
  
• Special:WithoutInterwiki: This lists pages without language links.

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