"Special pages" are pages which are automatically generated by the MediaWiki software which runs Wiktionary. They all have names beginning with "Special:" and thus can be linked to from any user page, talk page, or page in the Wiktionary: namespace, by using internal links of the form:
Special pages should not be linked to from the dictionary entries in the main namespace.
A list of (almost) all available special pages can be found at Special:Specialpages. These pages cannot be directly edited by users; if you have a comment or suggestion about a special page, you should post it to this talk page.
In the following list the long form of each special page name is followed by the short form used in links (shown as pagename in the above example).
Page title | Special: | Description |
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All pages | Allpages | alphabetical list of pages in any namespace starting at a given title |
Articles with the most categories | Mostcategories | entries which have been placed in the most categories |
Articles with the most revisions | Mostrevisions | the most frequently edited entries |
Book sources | Booksources | returns links to popular online booksellers for a given ISBN (does not check for validity of number) |
Broken Redirects | BrokenRedirects | redirects that no longer point to an existing page |
Captcha | ||
Categories | Categories | alphabetical list of categories |
Dead-end pages | Deadendpages | entries that don't link to any other entries; usually needs fixing |
Double redirects | DoubleRedirects | redirects that point to other redirects; the MediaWiki software will not follow multiple (chained) redirects; always needs fixing |
Export pages | Export | disabled feature |
File list | Imagelist | upload history for the most recently added images and sound files |
File path | Filepath | find a file (image, etc.) by name (filename.ext) |
Gallery of new files | Newimages | the most recently uploaded images and sound files displayed in gallery format |
List of Wikimedia wikis | SiteMatrix | links to Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, and Wikisource in various languages |
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames | Ipblocklist | the most recently blocked users |
Log in / create account | Userlogin | |
Logs | Log | |
Long pages | Longpages | |
MIME search | MIMEsearch | |
Most linked to categories | Mostlinkedcategories | |
Most linked to images | Mostimages | |
Most linked to pages | Mostlinked | |
My page | Mypage | one's own user page (i.e., that of the user following the link) |
My talk | Mytalk | one's own user talk page (i.e., that of the user following the link) |
My watchlist | Watchlist | one's own watchlist (i.e., that of the user following the link) |
New pages | Newpages | |
Oldest pages | Ancientpages | |
Orphaned pages | Lonelypages | |
Preferences | Preferences | |
Prefix index | Prefixindex | |
Random page | Randompage | |
Random redirect | Randomredirect | |
Recent changes | Recentchanges | |
Search | Search | |
Short pages | Shortpages | |
Special pages | Specialpages | |
Statistics | Statistics | |
System messages | Allmessages | |
Uncategorized categories | Uncategorizedcategories | |
Uncategorized pages | Uncategorizedpages | |
Unused categories | Unusedcategories | |
Unused files | Unusedimages | |
Upload file | Upload | |
User list | Listusers | |
Version | Version | |
Wanted categories | Wantedcategories | |
Wanted pages | Wantedpages |
etc.