User:Hengsheng120/SpecialPages

Available special pages

General information

• Special:SpecialPages: a list of all special pages currently available to all users.
• Special:AllMessages: displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
• Special:Statistics: total number of pages and users in various categories.
• Special:Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed.

Page listings

• Special:AllPages: allows the user to access a portion of an alphabetical list of all 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).
• Special:PrefixIndex: 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.
• Special:Categories: shows an alphabetical list of categories, with numbers of members.
• Special:ListFiles: list of images and other files uploaded; can be sorted by size or date.
• Special:ListRedirects: lists all redirects.
• Special:ProtectedPages: lists protected pages.
• Special:ProtectedTitles: lists titles which have been protected to prevent pages being created there.

Tools

• Special:Search: for searching Wiki.
• Special:WhatLinksHere: enables listing all pages linking to a given page (including transclusions and redirects). The target can be specified as a parameter.
• Special:MovePage: for moving (renaming) a page.
• Special:Upload: upload a file to the wiki.
• 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.
• Special:Random: 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.
• Special:RandomRedirect: redirects to a random redirect page.

Latest changes

• Special:RecentChanges: lists the latest edits in the project. Changes to watched pages appear bold.
• Special:RecentChangesLinked: 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/Lesotho.
• 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.
• Special:NewFiles: gallery of new uploaded files.
• Special:Log: 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.
• Special:Tags: lists the tags with which edits may be marked.

Users

• Special:ListUsers: lists all registered users. Can be filtered by group (e.g. administrators) and other criteria. Note that Special:ListAdmins redirects to Special:ListUsers/sysop.
• Special:BlockList: blocked IPs and usernames.
• Special: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/Jimbo Wales.
• Special:ListGroupRights: shows the rights assigned to particular groups of users.

Personal

• Special:UserLogin: to log in.
• Special:UserLogout: to log out (destroys the login cookie).
• Special:ChangePassword: to change your password.
• Special:Preferences: allows you to view and modify your personal settings. See.
• Special:MyContributions: links to your contributions page.
• Special:MyPage: links to your user page.
• Special:MyTalk: links to your user talk page.
• Special:Watchlist: shows recent changes to the pages you are watching.
• Special:ConfirmEmail: to confirm your e-mail address.

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 Wikis.
• Special:UncategorizedPages: pages without category tags. Note that after adding a tag to a page, refreshing this page does not immediately reflect the change. Note also that Special:UncategorizedCategories is disabled.
• Special:UncategorizedFiles: images and other files without category tags (see above).
• Special:UncategorizedTemplates: templates without category tags (see above).
• Special:UnusedCategories
• Special:UnusedFiles
• Special:UnusedTemplates: templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution).
• Special:WantedCategories: categories with members but no category page.
• Special:WantedFiles: missing image files and others.
• Special:FileDuplicateSearch

Miscellaneous

• Special:BlankPage: a blank page.
• Special:BookSources: search sources for a book by inputting the book's number.
• Special:FilePath: returns the complete path for a file.
• Special:LinkSearch: for searching for external links.

Restricted special pages

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

• Special:Block: available to administrators. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
• Special:Import: available to administrators and importers.
• Special:Undelete: available to administrators. Provides one way to undelete a page.
• Special:DeletedContributions: available to administators.
• Special:UnwatchedPages: available to administrators. .
• Special:LockDB and Special:UnlockDB: available only to developers. Used to switch the database between read/write and read-only modes.
• Special:UserRights: available to stewards. Used to assign and remove user access rights (e.g. administrator status).
• Special:CheckUser: available to users with the checkuser privilege.

Others

• Special:FewestRevisions: lists articles with the fewest revisions.
• Special:MostCategories: lists articles whose number of categories is largest.
• Special:MostRevisions: lists articles with the most revisions.
• Special:DeadendPages: pages without any outgoing links.
• Special:MIMESearch: filters files for MIME type.
• Special:MostLinkedCategories: lists categories with the most pages.
• Special:MostLinkedPages: lists pages linked from the largest number of other pages.
• Special:MostLinkedTemplates: lists templates for which the number of pages in which the template is transcluded is largest, not counting transclusions through redirects.
• Special:LonelyPages: orphaned articles i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki.
• Special:WantedPages
• Special:WantedTemplates
• Special:AncientPages: pages in the main namespace, in order of last edit.