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The namespace "Special:" consists of "special pages". These have no corresponding wikitext; they are created by the software on demand. Some depend on the preferences that have been set, e.g. classic or enhanced Recent Changes, and the number of titles in Recent Changes and the watchlist, etc.

Main page: Wikipedia:MediaWiki order of page names

Wikipedia uses alphabetical ordering for page names in categories to make it easier to find what you are looking for. The special page which lists all pages on Wikipedia also uses alphabetical ordering.

Order

The alphabetical order used by Wikipedia is based on the Unicode order and corresponds to American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Blank spaces between words in a page name are treated as an underscore "_", and are therefore ordered after upper case letters and before lower case letters. Blank spaces after a page name come before any character.

Order of Common Characters

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_'
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Examples

  • "Z" comes before "a" (because upper case letters are ordered before lower case letters)
  • "z" comes before "é" (because characters with diacritic marks are ordered after normal characters)

See also


Special pages for all users

All of the below linked Special pages produce content particular to whatever wiki you are viewing this document on. If you are looking for a list of the available Special pages from a given wiki, use its Special:Specialpages page to get a list, or try viewing the page on this wiki, then editing your web address to change the server name, leaving the page portion intact.

Special pages
Special:Specialpages : A list of all special pages
Preferences
Special:Preferences : Set your user preferences; for some project families, notably Wikicities, this applies for the whole family. See Help:Preferences.
My watchlist
Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)
Recent changes
Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits in the project.
Upload file
Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki.
Image list
Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date
User list
Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users. For some project families, notably Wikicities, this applies for the whole family.
Admins list
Special:Listadmins : A list of all Administrators.
Statistics
Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users
Random page
Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page from the main namespace which is not a redirect.
Orphaned pages
Special:Lonelypages : Lonely articles.
Uncategorized pages
Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags (note that after adding a tag to a page refreshing this page does not immediately reflects the change)
Unused images
Special:Unusedimages
Wanted pages
Special:Wantedpages : Articles which have been requested / most wanted.
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
Long pages
Special:Longpages - pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size
New pages
Special:Newpages : new pages in the main namespace - newest pages in the main namespace, 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 creation date and time, in order of creation
Dead-end pages
Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links.
All pages
Special:Allpages : all pages in a specified namespace in alphabetical order, including redirects (unfortunately without showing which are redirects); is on Wikimedia sometimes temporarily disabled. Template:H:new
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames
Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames
Book sources
Special:Booksources : ISBN Book Sources
Categories
Special:Categories
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. See Help:Export and import.
Version
Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running
Wikimedia Board of Trustees election
Special:Boardvote : Voting software for the now finished elections
Special:SiteMatrix : list of all projects
Talk page
Special:Mytalk : Link to the talk page of the user who follows it.

Restricted special pages

Block user
Special:Blockip : Sysop only. Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.

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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.

Currently unavailable special pages

SQL query
Special:Asksql : Sysop only. Database interface for running queries. Currently disabled.
All system messages
Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Currently disabled.
Unicode Converter
Special:UnicodeConverter : Converts Unicode to HTML entities : Not currently available outside of the test wiki
Popular pages
Special:Popularpages : The most visited pages. Currently disabled.
Maintenance page
Special:Maintenance : Currently disabled.

Logs

  • Special:Log - combined display of upload, deletion, protection, blocking, and sysop logs. You can narrow down the view by selecting a log type, the user name (case-sensitive!), or the affected page (usual case-sensitivity, but full name required, e.g. "Image:Map South Holland.png".

Old logs on Wikipedia, until Dec 2004:

Miscellaneous

Special pages can be linked to as usual, like Special:Recentchanges.

Special pages requiring a target page:

Special pages requiring a target user:

Special page allowing a starting page:

In some cases the full URL has to be given, like an external link, for example //en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes).

Redirects to Special pages have been disabled because of their complications.

"Special:" in URLs is e.g. "Speciaal" in Dutch, "Spezial" in German, "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "מיוחד:" in Hebrew. See e.g the prefix of "Recentchanges" in the URL of the link to the Recent changes.

On a special page the tab labelled with the namespace, in this case "Special Page", oddly links to the Main page.

See also

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