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An overview of Special Pages which are created by MediaWiki on demand and allow you to view system settings and edit some values such as the side menu. All of the below linked Special pages produce content particular to this Wiki.

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Most Useful Special Pages

Check Version 
Special:Version — find out which versions and extensions are currently used by this wiki.
Edit Sidebar Menu 
MediaWiki:Sidebar — add or remove items from the left sidebar menu. See MediaWiki Manual : Sidebar
Page Title 
MediaWiki:Pagetitle — allows you to change the Page Title for your site, i.e. from Fishcakes Wiki to Tech Wiki.
Specialpages 
Special:Specialpages to view those in use on this Wiki. See meta.wikimedia.org Help: Special Page.
Userlogin 
Special:Userlogin — allows Sysops to add new users.

Restricted Special Pages

Following pages are only accessible by sysops, bureaucrats, or stewards.

Block user 
Special:Blockip — Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
Get user IP 
Special:CheckUser — allows a user with a checkuser flag to access confidential data stored about a user.
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.
Lock database 
Special:Lockdb — Developer only. Puts the wiki in read only mode.
Make a user into a sysop 
Special:Makesysop — Bureaucrat only. Turn user into Sysop.
Oversight 
Special:Oversight — view a list of users.
Restore deleted page 
Special:Undelete — Sysop only. One way to undelete a page.
Set user rights 
Special:Userrights — Stewards only. Give and remove user access rights (e.g. sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser) on any Wikimedia project.
Unlock database
Special:Unlockdb — Developer only. Returns the wiki to read/write mode.

View Existing Pages

You can view names of all "existing" pages by category using the links below.

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Standard Special Pages

All pages 
Special:Allpages — all pages in a specified namespace in ASCII order, including redirects; on Wikimedia sometimes temporarily disabled. Both a namespace and a starting page can be specified:
Special:Allpages/Template — main namespace, from "Template"
Special:Allpages/Template: — Template namespace, from start
Special:Allpages/Template:T — Template namespace, from "T"
All pages with 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/".
Articles with the fewest revisions
Special:Fewestrevisions — shows least active articles.
Articles with the most categories
Special:Mostcategories — lists articles from whose number of categories is largest.
Articles with the most revisions
Special:Mostrevisions — Articles with the most revisions.
Blocked IP addresses and usernames 
Special:Ipblocklist — Blocked IPs and usernames
Book sources 
Special:Booksources — ISBN Book Sources
Broken redirects 
Special:BrokenRedirects — links to pages which don't exist.
Captcha
Special:Captcha — on projects supporting this feature. Shows "Captcha help".
Categories 
Special:Categories — shows the number of members.
CategoryTree 
Special:CategoryTree — displays categories in tree structure.
Cross-namespace links 
Special:CrossNamespaceLinks — provides a list of links from a page in the main namespace to a page in other namespaces (except for Special, Talk, Meta and Template namespaces), which are not advisable to use.
Confirm my email address
Special:Confirmemail — sends confirmation email.
Dead-end pages 
Special:Deadendpages — Pages without any outgoing links.
Disambiguation pages 
Special:Disambiguations — shows pages that link to a disambiguation page used for words with more than one meaning.
Double redirects 
Special:DoubleRedirects — lists redirects that redirect to another redirects. May contain false positives.
Expand templates
Special:ExpandTemplates — provides an input box to enter wikitext, and another one to enter a page name, and produces expanded wikitext, i.e., templates, parser functions and variables are expanded recursively; variables depending on page name are expanded based on the supplied page name.
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.
External links
Special:Linksearch — provides a list of links in external link style from the site.
File path 
Special:Filepath — returns the complete path for a file.
Files 
Special:Imagelist — List of images and other files uploaded that can be sorted by size or date.
Gallery of new files 
Special:Newimages — lists new images.
Log in / create account 
Special:Userlogin — Creates new login cookie.
Logout 
Special:Userlogout — Destroys cookie.
Logs 
Special:Log — combined display of various logs. See also below.
Long pages 
Special:Longpages — pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size.
MIME search 
Special:MIMEsearch — filters files for its MIME-type.
Most linked-to categories 
Special:Mostlinkedcategories — lists categories from whose number of pages contained is largest.
Most linked-to images 
Special:Mostimages — lists images from whose number of pages linked is largest.
Most linked-to pages 
Special:Mostlinked — lists pages from whose number of pages linked is largest.
Most linked-to templates 
Special:Mostlinkedtemplates — lists most linked to templates on the site.
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.
My watchlist 
Special:Watchlist — Show the pages you are watching.
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.
Orphaned pages 
Special:Lonelypages — Orphaned articles i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki.
Pages without language links 
Special:Withoutinterwiki — no language.
Preferences 
Special:Preferences — select preferences to customise the appearance and behaviour of the software.
Protected pages 
Special:Protectedpages — protect pages from editing.
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, e. g.: Special:Randompage/Talk, Special:Random/Template.
Random redirect 
Special:Randomredirect — redirects to a random redirect pages.
Recent changes 
Special:Recentchanges — The latest edits in the project.
Related changes 
Special:Recentchangeslinked — It works only if the target is specified.
Redirects 
Special:Listredirects — lists all redirects.
Search 
Special:Search — load search page.
Short 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
Statistics 
Special:Statistics — total number of pages and users
System messages 
Special:Allmessages — Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
Uncategorized categories 
Special:Uncategorizedcategories — tbd.
Uncategorized pages 
Special:Uncategorizedimages — Images without category tags (note that after adding a tag to a page refreshing this page does not immediately reflects the change)
Uncategorized pages 
Special:Uncategorizedpages — Pages without category tags (ditto)
Uncategorized templates 
Special:Uncategorizedtemplates — Templates without category tags (ditto)
Unused categories 
Special:Unusedcategories — tbd
Unused files 
Special:Unusedimages — list of unused images.
Unused templates 
Special:Unusedtemplates — templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution))
Upload file 
Special:Upload — Upload a file to the wiki.
User contributions 
Special:Contributions — Requires a target user: e. g. Special:Contributions/Dan Salmon
Users 
Special:Listusers — A list of all registered users. There also is Special:Listadmins, which is a redirect toSpecial:Listusers/Sysop. For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family.
Userlogin 
Special:Userlogin — allows Sysops to add new users.
Version 
Special:Version — Shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
Wanted categories 
Special:Wantedcategories — tbd
Wanted pages 
Special:Wantedpages — Articles which have been requested / most wanted, specifically those that have at least 2 incoming links, but do not exist.
Wiki matrix 
Special:SiteMatrix — list of all projects
What links here 
Special:Whatlinkshere — It works only if the target is specified.


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