Help:Special pages

Special pages are pages that are made by the software on demand. They are found in their own namespace Special: and are not editable directly as other pages. 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://rbose.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=3&limit=100. 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.

Available special pages

Clicking the link Special:Specialpages will take you to a list of all special pages (except the restricted ones) on our wiki. Such a link is found on the bottom panel.

Maintenance reports

• Broken redirects: broken redirects of pages and files.
• Dead-end pages: pages without any outgoing links.
• Double redirects: lists redirects that redirect to another redirect. May contain false positives.
• Long pages: pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size.
• Oldest pages: pages in the main namespace, in order of last edit.
• Orphaned pages: orphaned articles i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki.
• Pages with the fewest revisions: lists articles with the fewest revisions.
• Pages without language links: pages without links to other language wikis.
• Protected pages: lists protected pages.
• Protected titles: lists titles which have been protected to prevent pages being created there.
• Short pages: pages in the main namespace, with size (of the wikitext excluding that of templates used) in bytes, in order of increasing size.
• Uncategorized categories: lists categories which are not in any category.
• Uncategorized files: images and other files without category tags. Note that after adding a tag to a page, refreshing this page does not immediately reflect the change.
• Uncategorized pages: pages without category tags (see above).
• Uncategorized templates: templates without category tags (see above).
• Unused categories: Created categories which have no wiki pages listed.
• Unused files: Files which are not used on any page.
• Unused templates: templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution).
• Wanted categories: categories with members but no category page.
• Wanted files: missing image files and others.
• Wanted pages: missing wiki pages.
• Wanted templates: missing templates.

List of pages

• All pages: allows the user to access a portion of an alphabetical list of all RBOSE Wiki 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.
• 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.
• Categories: shows an alphabetical list of categories, with numbers of members.
• Disambiguation pages: 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.
• List of redirects: lists all redirects.

Login / sign up

• Log in / create account: to log in or to create an account (creates a new login cookie).

Users

• Active users: current active users.
• Blocked IP addresses and usernames: blocked users and ips.
• Change password: to change your password.
• Preferences: allows you to view and modify your personal settings. See Help:Preferences.
• 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/Lukas. See Help:User contributions.
• User group rights: shows the rights assigned to particular groups of users on RBOSE wiki.
• User list: lists all registered users. Can be filtered by group (e.g. administrators) and other criteria. Note that Special:ListAdmins redirects to Special:ListUsers/sysop.

Recent changes and logs

• Gallery of new files: gallery of new uploaded files.
• Logs: combined display of various logs. The type of log, user and page affected can be specified. Parameters "block", "delete", "protect" and "upload" are available. e.g. Special:Log/block displays the block log directly. For more information, see Help:Log.
• My watchlist: shows recent changes to the pages you are watching. See Help:Watchlist.
• New pages: 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.
• Recent changes: lists the latest edits in the project. Changes to watched pages appear bold.
• 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/Open source projects.
• Valid change tags: lists the tags with which edits may be marked. See Wikipedia:Tags.

Media reports and uploads

• File list: list of images and other files uploaded; can be sorted by size or date.
• File path: returns the complete path for a file.
• MIME Search: filters files for MIME type.
• Search for duplicate files: search for duplicated files.
• Upload: upload a file to the wiki.

Wiki data and tools

• Popular pages: shows a list of wiki pages with the most views.
• Statistics: total number of pages and users in various categories.
• System messages: displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
• Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed.
• View and edit interwiki data

Redirecting special pages

• External links: for searching for external links. See Help:Linksearch.
• Random page: 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.
• Random redirect: redirects to a random redirect page.
• Search: for searching with the RBOSE Wiki. See Help:Search.

High use pages

• Most linked-to categories: lists categories with the most pages.
• Most linked-to files: lists images and other files linked from the largest number of pages.
• Most linked-to pages: lists pages linked from the largest number of other pages.
• Most linked-to templates: lists templates for which the number of pages in which the template is transcluded is largest, not counting transclusions through redirects.
• Pages with the most categories: lists articles whose number of categories is largest.
• Pages with the most revisions: lists articles with the most revisions.

Page tools

• Cite: generates bibliographic citations, in several formats, for citing a Wiki article as a reference.
• 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.
• What links here: 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/Mumble. See Help:What links here.

Other special pages

• All defined tables: lists all defined tables.
• Book sources: search sources for a book by inputting the book's ISBN number.
• Empty tables: lists tables that do not contain any data.
• Tasks: provides the ability to create tasks on any page of our Wiki.
• Undefined tables: lists tables that have data but no definition.

Other special pages 2

• Special:BlankPage: a blank page.
• Special:Captcha: shows "Captcha" help.
• Special:ConfirmEmail: to confirm your e-mail address.
• Special:EmailUser: e.g. Special:EmailUser/DNS (See Help:Email)
• Special:MovePage: for moving (renaming) a page (see Help:Moving a page). The page must be given as a parameter.
• Special:MyContributions: links to your contributions page.
• Special:MyPage: links to your user page.
• Special:MyTalk: links to your user talk page.
• Special:UserLogout: to log out (destroys the login cookie).

Restricted special pages

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

• Special:Block: available to wiki administrators. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
• Special:DeletedContributions: available to administators.
• Special:Import: available to administrators and importers.
• Special:LockDB and Special:UnlockDB: available only to developers. Used to switch the database between read/write and read-only modes.
• Special:MakeSysop and Special:MakeBot: available to wiki bureaucrats and wiki stewards.
• Special:Piwik: inserts Piwik script into MediaWiki pages for tracking and adds some stats.
• Special:Undelete: available to administrators. Provides one way to undelete a page.
• Special:UnwatchedPages: available to administrators.
• Special:UserRights: available to administators. Used to assign and remove user access rights.