WikiPedia:Special pages

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This is a list of special pages which are available from Special:Specialpages.

The box on the right shows links to editable versions of some of these pages, which might be protected and only editable by sysops.

Special pages (edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Specialpageslist&action=edit))
SpecialPage	Editable version
Shortpages	Shortpages (1) (2) Blank pages
n/a	Empty images
Uncategorizedpages	n/a
Longpages	Longpages
Wantedpages	Most wanted articles
Lonelypages	Orphaned Articles
n/a	Most wanted stubs
n/a	Most Referenced Articles
Deadendpages	Deadend pages
n/a	New disambig. pages
Oldest articles	n/a
Newpages	n/a
Special:Categories	Categories-Alpha (all in one very large page)
n/a	Orphaned categories
See also: Offline Reports, Collaboration

Contents

1 Special pages for all users

2 Restricted special pages

3 Currently unavailable special pages

4 Logs

5 See also

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Special pages for all users

Login: Special:Userlogin : Log in or create a new account.
Logout: Special:Userlogout : Log out of your account.
Preferences: Special:Preferences : Set your user preferences. (Preferences help)
My watchlist: Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)
Recent changes: Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits on Wikipedia. (Recent changes help)
Upload file: Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki. (Upload help)
Image list: Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date
New image gallery: Special:Newimages : The most recently uploaded images displayed in a gallery format
User list: Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users.
Admins list: Special:Listadmins : A list of all Wikipedia:Administrators
Statistics: Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users (see also Wikipedia:Statistics)
Random page: Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page (Talk)
Orphaned pages: Special:Lonelypages : Wikipedia:Orphaned articles (Talk)
Uncategorized pages: Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags (Talk)
Uncategorized categories: Special:Uncategorizedcategories : Categories without category tags (Talk)
Unused files: Special:Unusedimages : Images that do not appear on any page.
Wanted pages: Special:Wantedpages : Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
Short pages: Special:Shortpages : Wikipedia:Shortpages (Talk)
Long pages: Special:Longpages : Wikipedia:Longpages (Talk)
New pages: Special:Newpages : new pages in the main namespace
Oldest pages: Special:Ancientpages
Dead-end pages: Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links. Wikipedia:Deadend pages
All pages: Special:Allpages : Wikipedia:All pages by title : May be temporarily disabled.
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames: Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames
Book sources: Special:Booksources : Wikipedia:ISBN
Categories: Special:Categories : Wikipedia:Categorization
Export pages: Special:Export : Exports the source of individual wiki pages, optionally with their histories, in a thin XML wrapper which includes metadata (time, etc).
Version: Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running
All system messages: Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace. See also Wikipedia:All pages in the MediaWiki and Template namespace.
Wikimedia Board of Trustees election: Special:Boardvote : Voting software for the now finished Board elections
Arbitration committee election: Special:ArbComVote: : Voting software for the now finished Arbitration Committee elections.
List of Wikimedia wikis: Special:SiteMatrix : Exisiting and potential sites on the Wikimedia wiki farm.
New image gallery: Special:Newimages : Thumbnails of newly uploaded images.
Logs: Special:Log : Logs of deletion, protection, blocking, image uploads and user rights settings

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Restricted special pages

Block user: Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
Restore deleted page: Special:Undelete : Sysop only. One way to undelete a page.
Make a user into a sysop: Special:Makesysop : Bureaucrat only.
Lock database: Special:Lockdb : Developer only. Puts the wiki in read only mode.
Unlock database: Special:Unlockdb : Developer only. Puts the wiki in read/write mode.
Show process list: Special:ShowProcesslist : Developer only.

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Currently unavailable special pages

SQL query: Special:Asksql : Sysop only. Database interface for running queries. Currently disabled.
Unicode Converter: Special:UnicodeConverter : Converts Unicode to HTML entities : Not currently available on the English Wikipedia
Import pages: Special:Import : Sysop only. Imports a page from another wiki. Currently disabled.
Popular pages: Special:Popularpages : The most visited pages. Currently disabled.
Maintenance page: Special:Maintenance : Currently disabled.