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Meta:Help:Special page authors and history

  • 12:59, 9 October 2006 Meta:User:Korg (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users - +Special:Mostcategories, Special:Mostrevisions)
  • 12:42, 9 October 2006 Meta:User:Korg (Talk | contribs) (+Mass delete : Special:Nuke ([http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Nuke/ extension]) : Sysop only. Mass deletions of pages recently added by a given user or IP.)
  • 12:36, 9 October 2006 Meta:User:Korg (Talk | contribs) (→Restricted special pages - Make a user into a bot : Special:Makebot ([http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Makebot/ extension]) : Bureaucrat only; see MakeBot.)
  • 12:26, 9 October 2006 Meta:User:Korg (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users - Special:Version : Shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed)
  • 12:15, 9 October 2006 Meta:User:Korg (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users - Special:Linksearch: fixed, works now on Meta)
  • 10:43, 21 September 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users)
  • 14:23, 5 July 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - (works on w:en:, not on Meta))
  • 17:10, 4 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Restricted special pages - checkuser)
  • 18:34, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - add one)
  • 18:31, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) (→Restricted special pages - add two)
  • 18:24, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Currently unavailable special pages)
  • 18:23, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Currently unavailable special pages - more defunct election pages)
  • 18:09, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - new images)
  • 18:01, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Currently unavailable special pages - add boardvote here)
  • 18:00, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users - rm dead Boardvote)
  • 17:56, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - add login / logout)
  • 17:32, 3 July 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) (→Logs - add direct links to the varios types from Ph: on w:en:)
  • 07:38, 30 June 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (Help:Creating a page on the fly)
  • 12:36, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - if the last character of the prefix is a space or underscore it is ignored.)
  • 11:47, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Miscellaneous - FWIW, predfixindex can be included)
  • 09:22, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users)
  • 09:19, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users)
  • 08:19, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users)
  • 08:14, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - "my" pages together)
  • 08:11, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users)
  • 05:38, 28 June 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - added two)
  • 23:44, 7 June 2006 User:193.77.242.167 (→Special pages for all users - added two pages that were forgotten)
  • 02:04, 18 May 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Restricted special pages - rm 1.5 blurb (admins of older versions see what they have))
  • 02:02, 18 May 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users)
  • 01:44, 17 May 2006 Meta:User:Omniplex (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users - subst H:new)
  • 06:34, 3 May 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - restore details on Newpages)
  • 02:36, 28 April 2006 User:64.162.11.205 (adding example of Special:Randompage with parameter to specify namespace)
  • 19:31, 22 April 2006 Meta:User:Robchurch (Talk | contribs) m (→Currently unavailable special pages - - Maintenance was removed from the software some time ago)
  • 11:15, 22 April 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - restore info on families of projects)
  • 08:32, 10 April 2006 Meta:User:Shinjiman (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - +Special:Mypage)
  • 20:33, 8 April 2006 Meta:User:The wub (Talk | contribs) (Special:Allmessages is currently enabled (and invaluable btw))
  • 07:29, 4 April 2006 Meta:User:Gareth Aus (Talk | contribs) (moved alphabetical order down, rm redundant link)
  • 09:17, 13 February 2006 Meta:User:Tinus (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - specify Wantedpages)
  • 08:11, 27 November 2005 Meta:User:Uncle G (Talk | contribs) (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
  • 03:35, 25 November 2005 Meta:User:Uncle G (Talk | contribs) (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
  • 05:29, 16 November 2005 Meta:User:Uncle G (Talk | contribs) (Replacement of {{new}} with {{H:new}})
  • 05:14, 16 November 2005 Meta:User:Uncle G (Talk | contribs) (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 22:58, 20 July 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - ;Talk page : Special:Mytalk : Link to the talk page of the user who follows it.)
  • 09:46, 16 July 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Miscellaneous - (Standard prefixes are ignored, compare Special:Allpages/Template:C and Special:Allpages/Templat:C))
  • 23:54, 7 June 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users)
  • 23:46, 7 June 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→ASCII order -{{Help:Alphabetic order}})
  • 06:26, 22 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (;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 tempora)
  • 06:44, 19 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - for some project families, notably Wikicities, this applies for the whole family.)
  • 05:38, 19 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (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)
  • 05:25, 19 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Restricted special pages - wikitext and metadata)
  • 05:22, 19 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (;Import pages : Special:Import : Sysop only. Imports one or more revisions of one or more pages by uploading an XML file in the format produced by Special:Export (typically after applying the latt)
  • 05:07, 19 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users)
  • 07:05, 11 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users)
  • 09:39, 6 May 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - See also Page history and XML export.)
  • 16:41, 30 April 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Miscellaneous - Redirects to Special pages have been disabled because of their complications.)
  • 16:28, 17 April 2005 Meta:User:AnyFile (Talk | contribs) (→See also - hc ->hcen added it)
  • 13:13, 22 March 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Miscellaneous - On a special page the tab labelled with the namespace, in this case "Special Page", oddly links to the Main page.)
  • 10:19, 15 February 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Example of alphabetic list as a special page - add comma: :!%&'(),-./[0-9]:;?[A-Z]_[a-z])
  • 12:01, 3 February 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (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-sen)
  • 22:12, 22 January 2005 User:218.214.18.27 (→Special pages for all users - reminder that special pages are particular to each server)
  • 21:35, 22 January 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - :Special:SiteMatrix : list all projects)
  • 05:38, 23 September 2004 Meta:User:AaronPeterson (Talk | contribs) m (this page needs help, I added {{hi}} and a header)
  • 10:36, 21 September 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (However, a "blank space" after the name comes before any character. Thus we have the order PC, PCX, PC Bruno, PCjr)
  • 10:20, 21 September 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (order: !%&'().-/[0-9]:;?[A-Z]_[a-z])
  • 07:29, 21 September 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (In the case of alphabetic lists, a-z come after A-Z.)
  • 11:01, 10 September 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (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) (how long?))
  • 23:33, 11 August 2004 Meta:User:Angela (Talk | contribs) (new: ;Uncategorized pages : Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags)
  • 01:55, 26 July 2004 Meta:User:Benc (Talk | contribs) m (→Miscellanious - sp)
  • 09:11, 12 July 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - from the main namespace, which is not a redirect,)
  • 08:37, 25 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - 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)
  • 08:28, 25 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users - misc)
  • 09:47, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users)
  • 09:47, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recentchanges)
  • 09:41, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users -The header is Project:Recentchanges; links to Recent Changes of many language versions of Wikipedia is Meta:Recentchanges/All languages;)
  • 07:28, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (mv from MediaWiki User's Guide: Namespaces#Special namespace)
  • 07:25, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→See also - *en:Wikipedia:Special pages)
  • 07:19, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (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.)
  • 07:16, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (→Special pages for all users -;Special pages : Special:Specialpages : A list of the other special pages)
  • 07:12, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) m (→Special pages for all users)
  • 06:55, 21 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (The namespace "Special:" consists of '''"special pages"'''. These have no corresponding wikitext and can not be edited; they are created by the software on demand. One of them gives a list of them)
  • 21:14, 20 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Namespaces#Special_namespace)
  • 21:01, 20 June 2004 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk | contribs) (copied from Wikipedia, needs some adjustments)

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new pages

Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

How can I get more than the past 15 new pages I created to display? -Eep² 04:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Random Page

Latest comment: 15 years ago5 comments4 people in discussion

{{Unanswered}} The random page function only seems to find small rural American counties, European footballers, or obscure albums by obscure musical artists. I remember only two or three years ago, "random page" almost always gave you something interesting and truly encyclopedic; random page really needs the ability to restrict by category! To omit categories of choice. It could also help people find random stubs and etc. 207.202.227.125 00:05, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I also was looking into how does one restrict to a category or pages that fall under a wikiproject. Any info welcome!!! --Squidonius (talk) 21:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Seconded. This needs a lot more attention than it is currently getting. Palladmial (talk) 23:38, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking that maybe a second random article buttom (say "curious article") with large-ish list of articles which are interesting and also the amusing ones as that is what people use the random article (say for Biochemistry: Radiotrophic fungus, Nylon-eating bacteria and Microbial_corrosion#Aviation_fuel, Deinococcus radiodurans, Nucleic acid analogues, Ribozyme and List of chemical compounds with unusual names and stuff). --Squidonius (talk) 11:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

I've developed a user script that can do this. You can configure it many different ways, including selecting a random article from a specified category or from a specified WikiProject. See randomlink.js. —GregU (talk) 16:00, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I swear there was a special page of that name but i can't find it. If you find it's name tell me DC

Special:Whatlinkshere (found). 19:09, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Contributions

Latest comment: 16 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

I've found a special page with this name but is it restricted or available for all users? TobytheTramEngine 18:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that it is only restricted to administrators. However, as I am not yet an admin, I am not too sure. --Siva1979Talk to me 12:42, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I see. Well, I didn't click it because I thought it would display this message to non-administrators: Permission error: The action you have requested is limited to the group of administrators. TobytheTramEngine 19:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
It is limited to sysops. TobytheTramEngine (talk) 18:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Special:CategoryTree.

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Is there some way of having Special:CategoryTree listed on this page? I was going to just asd it, but see that this page is a copy of a master page. However it's done, Special:CategoryTree should be listed here. --11:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

This is complete. Gerardw (talk) 16:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Wendy Lynn Decker

Latest comment: 15 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Wendy Lynn Decker is a children’s and young adult author. She has written many articles, poems and short stories for books, magazines, and newspapers. She is the author of children’s novel “The Bedazzling Bowl”, which has Singer/Songwriter/Actress Alyjah Jade on the cover. Wendy has written many novels and her agent is in the process of sending manuscripts out to publishers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smilesandgiggles (talk • contribs) 18:33, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Out of place? Left note on User talk:Smilesandgiggles Gerardw (talk) 16:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Special:MostRevisions

Latest comment: 16 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Someone needs to update this page, it's about a year and half out of date. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 00:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Kalvialar

Latest comment: 15 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

KALVIALAR - It`s an tamil word it means Educationist, In India Mr.N.Vinoth is recently awarded as KALVIALAR by CHRD, Chennai for his service in Rural Education —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalvialar (talk • contribs) 09:18, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Out of place? Left note on User talk:Kalvialar Gerardw (talk) 16:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Cov & North Warks Cricket Club

Latest comment: 15 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Binley Road, Coventry —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricey155 (talk • contribs) 16:31, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Out of place? Left note on User talk:Ricey155 Gerardw (talk) 16:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Archive

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This page is old and fragmented. I propose setting up User:MiszaBot II to automatically archive. Gerardw (talk) 16:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Special Page: Cite

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It would be helpful to new users to add a little more information to this page. I was trying to figure out what it did but was concerned I was going to inadvertently edit something. (Eventually I went with be bold and tried it out.) Specifically:

  • Add note indicating Page text field should be a wikipedia page (instead of a url)
  • Page outputs a citation which can be cut and paste into documents.

Gerardw (talk) 16:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The page shows a red link here: Categories 

   Special:Categories : shows the number of members, see also Help:DPL.

I suggest it could be fixed or removed. -DePiep (talk) 09:51, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Special:UnwatchedPages

Latest comment: 15 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I see Special:UnwatchedPages isn't listed here.. too bad it's only for admins, I'd find it very useful. -- OlEnglish (Talk) 22:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

But so would vandals... --Kotniski (talk) 10:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
And now that i'm an admin it seems it's no longer available! doh! -- Ϫ 22:06, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Special: BookSources

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Could anyone point me to a discussion regarding the creation of Special: BookSources? I am interest in finding out about the rationale behind it, who edits it and whether it could be adapted so that it could be used with other publication catalogue numbering systems? --Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 13:55, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Question about the Move log

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi, I'm a Toolserver user, and would like to compile some reports based on page moves (specifically create a list of who's been doing a lot of page moves in the last day, week, etc). Now, I'm pretty certain there's no way to do this from what's available at Toolserver, but I thought I'd ask for suggestions all the same. Thanks, --JaGatalk 21:06, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

How to get a count?

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I know you can display a count of how many pages are assigned to any category using "PAGESINCAT". Is there any way to display the number of pages that come up on a Special page - on another page? Say, for example, I wanted to display the # of pages that have double redirects. Is there a way to do that? I hope that made sense... Jerilderie (talk) 23:20, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Special:RecentChangesLinked: more than 500?

Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Is it possible to get more than 500 changes through Special:RecentChangesLinked? Since it lists each edit separately (rather than the most recent for any given article, like a watchlist), Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Recent_changes, set to 500, usually shows only half a day's changes.

This is a big project with lots of active articles. Is there any way to get a more comprehensive list of changes, or do we need to get people organized in shifts round the clock to cover this? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:46, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Latest comment: 13 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I was wondering why there aren't any Interlanguage links to WPs in different languages or InterWikimedia links to Wikimedia sister projects for Special Pages? Lots of them exist in the same way there and it would make things easier to move between languages and sister projects if there were direct links.--Berny68 (talk) 08:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

List of books a user has created is: (1) Hard to find - but, with diligence, can be found - which is fine

(2) Confusing - not so fine - seems to have random formatting. Suggestion: "Bullet-point" each book and/or put each book as a single entry in a verticle list. (Perhaps with

  • ...

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Blumrosen (talk • contribs) 16:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Special page for non-existent WP pages

Latest comment: 12 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

The landing page for non-existent articles looks something like this:

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for A page linked from the internet in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.
  • Start the A page linked from the internet article, using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it.
  • Search for "A page linked from the internet" in existing articles.
  • Look for pages within Wikipedia that link to this title.

Is this part of MediaWiki? If not I want to see it changed to something like:

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
  • Search for A page linked from the internet in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.
  • Search for "A page linked from the internet" in existing articles.
  • Look for pages within Wikipedia that link to this title.
  • Start the A page linked from the internet article, using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it.
If you are a website administrator your incoming link to Wikipedia will require updating

This makes it easier for readers who are by far the largest users of Wikipedia. "Please" is not needed as well. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:50, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

This message is generated by Template:No article text, so I guess this proposal belongs at the template talk page. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:02, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Ah. Thanks for that. I will knock on their door. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:06, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Special page statistik don't work

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello what's to do, if the special page statistics didn't work or don't displaying the current article count on a wiki? I have this problem and can't find the source of this error?! Abani79 (talk) 03:38, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Can you elaborate further? I don't think we have enough information to help you. • Jesse V.(talk) 22:04, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Suggest it's time to reconfigure Special:SpecialPages

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Since many of the maintenance reports are kept for purely historical purposes, maybe we should consider changing the page. It wouldn't be a big deal, but that SpecialPages occurs in the sidebar toolbox, even when not logged in. Any links which are one click away from every page view should work, IMHO. I see nobody's just banging down the doors on this issue, but it seems a minor problem past due for repair. BusterD (talk) 04:52, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Special:Nearby

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Where's the right place in this list to add Special:Nearby? Also, Special:Nearby used to have photos from each article - why were they removed? Showing which articles are lacking photos might encourage people to go down the road and take a picture. GoingBatty (talk) 02:44, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Just curious...

Latest comment: 11 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Does anyone know what the purpose of Special:BlankPage is? It doesn't seem to have any obvious use. Terraxos (talk) 06:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

ROTFL!!! WOW!!! I didn't know such a special page even existed. Anyway... you might want to check MediaWiki for details, though I doubt that there is any documentation or help about that special page. --Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 13:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Another "just wondering" question: Why does this page get so much spam? Other talk pages don't seem to, and I can't see any obvious explanation. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:51, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Adding Special pages to the list of Restricted special pages

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

How can I go about adding specific special pages to the list of special pages that are restricted without the use of an extension? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiGremlin Dave (talk • contribs) 22:08, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

TOC

Latest comment: 10 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Hi, this is mainly for the Admins to have a look at as up plebeians can not amend these, can we add a "toc|8" to the top of some of the special pages, in 80% of cases it will be of no use, long pages, double re-directs and the like, however, for the other 20% it may help to add some navigation and therefore assist in editors locate their favourite topic or prefix etc.
cheers
The Original Filfi (talk) 00:26, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

@The Original Filfi: Special: pages don't really exist as such, so aren't editable - even by admins. The vast majority are built on-the-fly - they are created when a user visits them and persist for as long as it takes to serve the page. A few are constructed from template-style pages, which are editable (and sometimes by non-admins) - the best example of this is Wikipedia:Book sources, used to create Special:BookSources when an ISBN is entered into a page - e.g. ISBN 0123456789.
If you can say which special page(s) you have in mind, it might be possible to find out if that is constructed on similar lines; if so, it may well be editable in a similar manner. --Redrose64 (talk) 07:56, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
To extend this as I am not sure if you meant this when you mentioned template-style pages above. There are MediaWiki messages that are incorporated into the Special Pages. For example, MediaWiki:Newpages-summary is incoporated first when Special:NewPages is being generated. This allows, for some Special Pages, admins to adjust what is displayed. QuiteUnusual (talk) 19:16, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Redrose64, I was looking at the special pages like Dormant article, lonely pages, dead-end pages and the like. If the bots are not updating these live, I wonder if we can set up new categories, of course adding the template "dormant" to a page would take it out of the next dormant bot run, so a bit of a conflict there. If we could somehow actually run the bots for these pages more regularly it would help potential fixers target the pages needing work, updating links etc. The TOC idea was for editors looking for prefixed articles needing work that fit within their own ambit.Kind regards.The Original Filfi (talk) 20:03, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Dormant pages and Dead-end pages are no longer updated. Even if they were, adding a TOC would be ineffective since they do not have sections; but they do have "previous 50"/"next 50"/etc. links like a page history, contribs list or watchlist. I don't know what you mean by "lonely pages". --Redrose64 (talk) 20:21, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

What are the Special page arguments?

Latest comment: 10 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

I wish to know how the Special:ListFiles offset argument works, but the Help page doesn't seem very helpful in that regard. Offset seems to use a yyyymmddhhmmss date, but the hours I input doesn't match the ones I get in the list. I tried searching for ListFiles in Mediawiki:Special page extensions, but it's not there. It feels like this is an index page for people who already know how the system works. Why not list all the possible arguments, or link into the code of the special pages? ~ Nelg (talk) 00:10, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

The software converts the displayed times to your local time zone, as configured on the "Appearance" tab at Special:Preferences. The offset API argument is likely to be UTC. I can't find the documentation for this parameter either. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:58, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
It's in UTC, and files uploaded earlier than that time are listed in reverse order of upload. For example, these are the files uploaded before 06:00 UTC today. Append &dir=prev to show files uploaded after that time: e.g. these are the files uploaded after 06:00 UTC today. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:10, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Autoconfirmed

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Please indicate special pages that are only visible to confirmed/autoconfirmed users and those only available to registered users. Nerd in Texas (talk) 16:00, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

How to add arguments to a wikilink?

Latest comment: 10 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Here is shown:

How do I add arguments to express a special page to do like 

Special:ComparePages ... HMS  ... United States Navy

? (No marines were hurt in creating this silly example) -DePiep (talk) 16:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

@DePiep: Not all special pages work that way. Special:ComparePages also does not work by taking parameters after slash. Either you use a full url like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ComparePages?page1=HMS&page2=United+States+Navy or use {{Compare pages}} template. --Glaisher (talk) 17:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Could this somehow be added to the Help page? I recall that twice a year I encounter this question, too low to remember the peculiarities. -DePiep (talk) 17:26, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Special:Diff

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I just noticed [[Special:Diff/ ...]] at Help:Wiki markup. Could this be documented here, please? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:19, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Per m:Tech/News/2014/06:
You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. Wikimedia code review. Wbm1058 (talk) 12:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Special:Getting started

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

A user noted at the Help desk that this page links to the non-existent Special:Getting started. Should the link be removed? —teb728 t c 02:36, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

@TEB728: Yes, I think so. There was one other red link, Special:Disambiguations, which I have also removed. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:13, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Please update

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The list of uncategorized categories was last update on November 27, 2014. Could there be regular, weekly updates? I am visiting many categories listed and they have already been categorized. Unnecessary listings tend to discourage editors from checking in and working on these pages as the information is so out-of-date. Liz Read! Talk! 13:31, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 April 2016

Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

On the shortcuts zone, add WP:SPECIAL. NasssaNser (talk) 11:17, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

  Done Ruslik_Zero 11:45, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Unimplemented consensus

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

In November 2016, a Requests for comment discussion at Wikipedia talk:Special:UnusedCategories produced a strong consensus to remove category redirects from Special:UnusedCategories. That decision has not been implemented 8 years later. Please can someone, anyone implement this consensus? — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  17:56, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

List in Help project?

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

To me, this is a List. However, class=List is not allowed in Help. Consideration should be given to allowing class=List in the Help project.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 20:51, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

he project covers most articles that are (or contain) lists. The lists that are intended as navigation aids are covered by WikiProject Outlines and WikiProject Indexes. Lee∴V 11:35, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
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