Help:Special page
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Special pages are created by the software on demand. They are located in "Special:" namespace and have no corresponding wikitext. Automatic list of most special pages is available by the Special pages link on every wiki page.
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Lists
All pages
- All pages (Allpages)
- All pages with prefix (Prefixindex)
Mediawiki searches all pages in a specified group of names in a special ASCII order. Capitals come before lowercase letters and unique characters such as "é" come after "z".
Mediawiki searches include redirects (Example: #REDIRECT[[Page name]]) These redirects are usually displayed in a different style than normal pages because of allpagesredirect class.
If a person uses "Display pages starting at:" to search, both Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages will show the list of pages starting with this word, then Allpages will display all of the other pages in ASCII order which don't have this word.
For example, if a person types in "Computer" in the "Display pages starting at:" box on the Special:Allpages page, mediawiki will first list all pages that start with the word computer:
- Computer
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computer-Aided Test Tool
- ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award
Mediawiki will then list all of the other pages that don't start with "computer" in ASCII order.
Protected
- Protected pages (Protectedpages) — pages protected from editing
- Protected titles (Protectedtitles) — titles protected from creation. This feature replaced cascading protection hack. Titles can be also protected by mask with MediaWiki:Titleblacklist.
Categories
- Categories (Categories)
- List of all categories, alphabetically ordered, showing the number of top elements in each category. Not very convenient, so many projects create index pages like w:Portal:Contents/Categorical index.
- Category Tree (Categorytree)
- The tree of pages and subcategories, using mw:Extension:CategoryTree. The same tree functionality is used on categories pages, and can be inserted into any page with
<categorytree>tag.
Images
- <imagelist> (Imagelist)
- List of uploaded files with descriptions, can be sorted by date, name or size.
- Gallery of new files (Newimages)
- Gallery of uploaded files with thumbnails, sorted by upload date.
