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| − | {{Redirect5|WP:SPEC|the Wikipedia policy concerning speculative information in articles|Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a crystal ball}}
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| − | The [[Help:Namespace|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.
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| − | ==Special pages for all users==
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| − | 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.
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| − | ;Special pages : [[Special:Specialpages]] : A list of all special pages for all users.
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| − | ; All pages : [[Special:Allpages]] : Lists all pages in a specified namespace in ASCII order, including redirects (to distinguish redirects, one can set ".allpagesredirect" class in the [[Help:User style|style sheets]]); on Wikimedia sometimes temporarily disabled. Both a namespace and a starting page can be specified:
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| − | :*[[Special:Allpages/Template]] - main namespace, from "Template"
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| − | :*[[Special:Allpages/Template:]] - Template namespace, from start
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| − | :*[[Special:Allpages/Template:T]] - Template namespace, from "T"
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| − | :From [[m:MediaWiki 1.5|MediaWiki 1.5]] one can also select all namespaces except a specified one. Namespace prefixes are given, but the sort key is the page name without prefix.
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| − | ; All pages with prefix : [[Special:Prefixindex]] : Lists all pages of a specified namespace beginning with a given prefix. Useful to find subpages, for example: [[Special:PrefixIndex/User:Example]].
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| − | ; Articles with the fewest revisions: [[Special:Fewestrevisions]]
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| − | ; Articles with the most categories: [[Special:Mostcategories]] : Lists articles from whose number of categories is largest.
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| − | ; Articles with the most revisions: [[Special:Mostrevisions]] : Articles with the most revisions.
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| − | ; Blank Page : [[Special:BlankPage]]
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| − | ; Blocked IP addresses and usernames : [[Special:Ipblocklist]] : Blocked IPs and usernames
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| − | ; Book sources : [[Special:Booksources]] : ISBN Book Sources
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| − | ; Broken redirects : [[Special:BrokenRedirects]]
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| − | ; Captcha:[[Special:Captcha]] on projects supporting this [[mediazilla:4845|feature]]. Shows "Captcha help."
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| − | ; Categories : [[Special:Categories]] : shows the number of members, see also [[Help:DPL]].
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| − | ; CategoryTree : [[Special:CategoryTree]] : displays categories in tree structure.
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| − | ; Cross-namespace links : [[Special:CrossNamespaceLinks]] : provides a list of links from a page in the main namespace to a page in other namespaces (except for Special, Talk, Meta and Template namespaces), which are not advisable to use.
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| − | ; Confirm my email address:[[Special:Confirmemail]]
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| − | ; Dead-end pages : [[Special:Deadendpages]] : Pages without any outgoing links.
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| − | ; Disambiguation pages : [[Special:Disambiguations]] : shows pages that link to a disambiguation page, which should link to the appropriate topic instead. A disambiguation page is defined as a page on which a disambiguation template is transcluded; a disambiguation template is defined as a template linked from [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]].
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| − | ; Double redirects : [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] : lists redirects that redirect to another redirects. May contain false positives.
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| − | ; Expand templates: [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] (extension, enabled on Wikimedia sites): Provides an input box to enter wikitext, and another one to enter a page name, and produces expanded wikitext, i.e., templates, parser functions and variables are expanded recursively; variables depending on page name are expanded based on the supplied page name. See also [[mw:Extension:ExpandTemplates]].
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| − | ; 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]].
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| − | ; External links: [[Special:Linksearch]], see [[Help:Linksearch]]
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| − | ; File path : [[Special:Filepath]] : returns the complete path for a file.
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| − | ; Files : [[Special:Imagelist]] : List of images and other files uploaded that can be sorted by size or date.
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| − | ; Gallery of new files : [[Special:Newimages]]
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| − | ; Log in / create account : [[Special:Userlogin]] : Creates new login [[w:en:HTTP cookie|cookie]].
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| − | ; Logout : [[Special:Userlogout]] : Destroys cookie, see also [[Privacy policy]].
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| − | ; Logs : [[Special:Log]] : Combined display of various logs. See also below.
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| − | ; Long pages : [[Special:Longpages]] - pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size
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| − | ; MIME search : [[Special:MIMEsearch]] : filters files for its MIME-type.
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| − | ; Most linked-to categories : [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories]] : lists categories from whose number of pages contained is largest.
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| − | ; Most linked-to images : [[Special:Mostimages]] : lists images from whose number of pages linked is largest.
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| − | ; Most linked-to pages : [[Special:Mostlinked]] : lists pages from whose number of pages linked is largest.
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| − | ; Most linked-to templates : [[Special:Mostlinkedtemplates]] : lists templates for which the number of pages in which the template is transcluded is largest, not counting transclusions through redirects; how many are listed depends on the settings; e.g. on [[w:en:]] 1000 (currently: templates transcluded in more than 1832 pages)
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| − | ; My contributions : [[Special:Mycontributions]] : Link to the contributions page of the user who follows it.
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| − | ; My page : [[Special:Mypage]] : Link to the user page of the user who follows it.
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| − | ; My talk page : [[Special:Mytalk]] : Link to the talk page of the user who follows it.
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| − | ; My watchlist : [[Special:Watchlist]] : Show the pages you are watching. ([[Help:Watching pages|Watchlist help]])
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| − | ; New pages : [[Special:Newpages]] : Newest pages with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first edit summary, in reverse order of creation.
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| − | ; Oldest pages : [[Special:Ancientpages]] - pages in the main namespace, with date and time of last edit, in order of last edit.
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| − | ; Orphaned pages : [[Special:Lonelypages]] : Orphaned articles i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki.
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| − | ; Pages without language links : [[Special:Withoutinterwiki]]
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| − | ; Preferences : [[Special:Preferences]] : Select preferences to customise the appearance and behaviour of the software. For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family. See [[Help:Preferences]].
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| − | ; Protected pages : [[Special:Protectedpages]]
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| − | ; Random page : [[Special:Randompage]] : redirects to a random page from the main namespace which is not a redirect. Other namespaces can be specified as a parameter, e. g.: [[Special:Randompage/Talk]], [[Special:Random/Template]].
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| − | ; Random redirect : [[Special:Randomredirect]] : redirects to a random redirect pages.
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| − | ; Recent changes : [[Special:Recentchanges]] : The latest edits in the project. See [[Help:Recent changes]].
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| − | ; Related changes : [[Special:Recentchangeslinked]] : It works only if the target is specified. See [[Help:Related changes]].
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| − | ; Redirects : [[Special:Listredirects]] : lists all redirects.
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| − | ; Search : [[Special:Search]]
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| − | ; 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
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| − | ; Statistics : [[Special:Statistics]] : total number of pages and users
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| − | ; System messages : [[Special:Allmessages]] : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
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| − | ; Uncategorized categories : [[Special:Uncategorizedcategories]]
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| − | ; Uncategorized images : [[Special:Uncategorizedimages]] : Images without category tags (note that after adding a tag to a page refreshing this page does not immediately reflects the change)
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| − | ; Uncategorized pages : [[Special:Uncategorizedpages]] : Pages without category tags (ditto)
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| − | ; Uncategorized templates : [[Special:Uncategorizedtemplates]] : Templates without category tags (ditto)
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| − | ; Unused categories : [[Special:Unusedcategories]]
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| − | ; Unused files : [[Special:Unusedimages]]
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| − | ; Unused templates : [[Special:Unusedtemplates]] - templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution))
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| − | ; Upload file : [[Special:Upload]] : Upload a file to the wiki.
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| − | ; User contributions : [[Special:Contributions]] : Requires a target user: e. g. [[Special:Contributions/Jimbo Wales]]
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| − | ; Users : [[Special:Listusers]] : A list of all registered users. There also is [[Special:Listadmins]], which is a redirect to [[Special:Listusers/Sysop]]. For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family.
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| − | ; Version : [[Special:Version]] : Shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
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| − | ; Wanted categories : [[Special:Wantedcategories]]
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| − | ; Wanted pages : [[Special:Wantedpages]] : Articles which have been requested / most wanted, specifically those that have at least 2 incoming links, but do not exist.
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| − | ; Wiki matrix :[[Special:SiteMatrix]] : list of all projects
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| − | ; What links here : [[Special:Whatlinkshere]] : It works only if the target is specified. See [[Help:What links here]].
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| − | ==Restricted special pages==
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| − | Following pages are only accessible by sysops, bureaucrats, or stewards.
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| − | ;{{Clarifyme|date=October 2008}} : [[Special:Oversight]] : see [[Special:Listusers]].
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| − | ===All sysops===
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| − | ;Block user : [[Special:Blockip]] : Used to block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.
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| − | ;Import pages : [[Special:Import]] : Imports the wikitext and metadata of 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 latter at another MediaWiki project). See [[Help:Import]].
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| − | ;Mass delete : [[Special:Nuke]] ([http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Nuke/ extension]) : Mass deletions of pages recently added by a given user or IP.
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| − | ;Restore deleted page : [[Special:Undelete]] : One way to undelete a page.
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| − | ===Bureaucrats only===
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| − | ;Make a user into a sysop : [[Special:Makesysop]] :
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| − | ;Make a user into a bot : [[Special:Makebot]] ([http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Makebot/ extension]) : See [[Help:MakeBot]].
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| − | ===Developers only===
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| − | ;Lock database : [[Special:Lockdb]] : Puts the wiki in read only mode.
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| − | ;Unlock database: [[Special:Unlockdb]]: Returns the wiki to read/write mode.
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| − | ===[[Stewards]] only===
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| − | ;Set user rights : [[Special:Userrights]] : Give and remove user access rights (e.g. sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser) on any Wikimedia project.
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| − | ===CheckUsers only===
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| − | ;Get user IP : [[Special:CheckUser]] : see [[Help:CheckUser]] and [[Special:Listusers/checkuser]].
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| − | entities : currently available
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| − | ==Logs==
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| − | [[Special:Log]] - combined display of various logs. You can narrow down the view by:
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| − | *selecting a log type, including:
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| − | ** [[Special:Log/block|Block log]] - blocks and unblocks
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| − | ** [[Special:Log/delete|Deletion log]] - deleted and undeleted pages
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| − | ** [[Special:Log/protect|Protection log]] - protected and unprotected pages
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| − | ** [[Special:Log/upload|Upload log]] - list of images uploaded
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| − | *entering the full name without prefix of the acting user (usual case-sensitivity)
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| − | *entering the full name of the affected page (usual case-sensitivity) e.g. "Image:Map South Holland.png"), or the full name including prefix of the affected user (in the case of blocking, setting user rights, setting bot status, and user creation) or without prefix (in the case of renaming a user)
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| − | It does not seem possible to search by editor for edits of deleted pages. They can only be seen by a sysop with Special:Undelete if the exact page name is known.
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| − | There are no logs available on the site for:
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| − | *adding or removing a page from a user's list of page to watch (the user can only view the current state)
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| − | *change of preferences of a user (ditto)
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| − | *viewing a page (except that, if [[mw:Manual:$wgDisableCounters|$wgDisableCounters]] is false, the total number of views of a page is displayed on it)
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| − | *editing and previewing a page without saving
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| − | *applying [[Special:Expandtemplates]]
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| − | *applying [[Special:Export]]
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| − | *unfinished operations (e.g. an attempted page move)
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| − | ==Miscellaneous==
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| − | Special pages can be linked to as usual, like [[Special:Recentchanges]]. [[Help:Redirect|Redirect]]s to Special pages have been disabled because of their complications.
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| − | The term in the site language equivalent to English "Special" is used in each project. E.g. "Speciaal" in Dutch, "Spezial" in German, "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "מיוחד:" in Hebrew. These also appear in the [[Help:URL|URL]]s. However, the English word "Special" works as alternative in most sites.
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| − | Special pages requiring a target page may give an error message if the target is not supplied:
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| − | :[[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Help:Template]]
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| − | :[[Special:Whatlinkshere/Help:Template]]
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| − | or prompt for the target if it was not supplied yet; with target the link is e.g.
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| − | :[[Special:Linksearch/*.domain.com]]
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| − | In some cases, to specify some aspects the full URL has to be given, like an external link, for example {{SERVER}}/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes).
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| − | Some special pages can be included, such as [[Special:Newpages|Newpages]], [[Special:Wantedpages|Wantedpages]], [[Special:Allpages|Allpages]], [[Special:Prefixindex|Prefixindex]], and [[Special:Recentchanges|Recentchanges]].
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| − | {{Special:Newpages/4}}
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