🧍 USER & ACCOUNT STUFF Page What it does Special:Preferences Edit your user preferences (email, skin, signature, etc.) Special:UserProfile View your public profile (if you’re using the SocialProfile extension) Special:Contributions/Username Shows all edits by a user Special:ListUsers Lists all registered users Special:ListGroupRights Shows what each user group can do Special:ActiveUsers Shows users active in the last 30 days Special:ChangePassword Change your password Special:UserRights (Admin only) Modify user groups/permissions 📚 PAGE & CONTENT MANAGEMENT Page Description Special:AllPages List all pages on the wiki Special:Categories List all categories Special:UncategorizedPages Pages not in any category Special:WantedPages Shows red links (pages that are linked to but don’t exist) Special:OrphanedPages Pages that nothing links to Special:RecentChanges Live feed of all edits Special:NewPages List of newly created pages Special:PrefixIndex View pages with a given title prefix Special:Search Built-in search tool Special:Random Jump to a random page 🧩 SYSTEM / CONFIGURATION / DEBUG Page Description Special:Version Shows MW version, PHP, extensions, etc. Special:Configuration (If available) Shows detailed configuration (read-only) Special:Statistics Wiki stats (page count, edits, users) Special:Log View all logs (moves, blocks, uploads, deletions) Special:RecentChangesLinked Recent changes to pages linked from a given page Special:ProtectedPages Pages that are protected from edits Special:WhatLinksHere/PageName See what links to a given page Special:Export Export wiki pages as XML Special:Import Import XML dumps (admin only) Special:ManageWiki (If on Miraheze or similar) manage global config Special:PageLanguage Set or view the language of a page 🖼️ FILES & UPLOADS Page Description Special:Upload Upload new files Special:ListFiles View all uploaded files Special:UnusedFiles Uploaded files not used anywhere Special:FileDuplicateSearch Find duplicate files Special:NewFiles Recently uploaded files 🧠 MAINTENANCE / ADMIN Page Description Special:BrokenRedirects Redirects that point to non-existent pages Special:DoubleRedirects Redirects that point to another redirect Special:DeadendPages Pages that don’t link to anything Special:DisambiguationPages Disambiguation page list Special:LongPages Longest pages Special:ShortPages Shortest pages Special:MostLinkedPages Pages with the most incoming links Special:MostLinkedTemplates Most-used templates Special:MostCategories Pages in many categories Special:MostRevisions Pages with the most edits Special:UnusedCategories Categories not assigned to any page 🧮 DATABASE / QUERY Page Description Special:ListDuplicatedFiles Files with identical content Special:PageForms (If installed) manage form-based editing Special:DataDump (Some setups) export database dumps Special:ApiSandbox Interactive API tester Special:SearchByProperty (If Semantic MediaWiki) search semantic properties 💬 COMMUNICATION Page Description Special:RecentChanges Shows all edits Special:Watchlist Your personal watchlist Special:EmailUser/Username Send an email to another user (if enabled) Special:Notifications View Echo (notification) alerts 🔒 SECURITY & LOGS Page Description Special:BlockList List of blocked users/IPs Special:AbuseLog AbuseFilter logs (if enabled) Special:CheckUser Advanced IP/user lookup (if you have rights) Special:DeletedContributions See deleted edits by a user (admins only) Special:Log/block, Special:Log/protect, etc. Filtered logs by type ⚡ FUN / MISC Page Description Special:RandomPage Random page Special:MyPage Goes to your user page Special:MyTalk Goes to your user talk page Special:MyContributions Shortcut to your edit history Special:SpecialPages Lists all special pages (master list)
🔥 Pro tip: If you ever forget the name of one, just visit:
https://yourwiki.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages
That page lists everything dynamically available in your current MediaWiki installation (including extension-added ones).
Want me to give you the most useful “admin/debug-only” special pages (for when you have shell or admin rights)?