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{{PD Help Page}}
{{Special page}}
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''Special pages''' are pages that are created by the software on demand.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">They are located in their own [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespaces|namespace]] (''{{ns:-1}}'') and are not editable directly as other pages.</span>

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Some special pages depend on the [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Preferences|preferences]] that have been set by a user, e.g., the number of titles which is displayed on a user's [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Watchlist|watchlist]].
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Special pages also take parameters, e.g., [[Special:Log/block]] takes you to the log of block users.
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To view a directory of all special pages, use [[Special:SpecialPages]].
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== Editing Special namespace pages ==
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The <code>Special:</code> namespace stands for special pages generated by MediaWiki. There is no matching talk space. The special pages are not made up of wikitext and are therefore not editable like other pages might be.
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They usually contain [[Help:System message#Finding messages and documentation|system messages]] from MediaWiki namespace, which are editable by [[Special:MyLanguage/Interface administrators|interface administrators]].
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{{Note|type=reminder|text=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The ampersand character (<code>&</code>) is not allowed.</span>}}

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== Linking, transcluding, or redirecting to a special page ==
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You can [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Links|link]] a special page as you would do for any other internal page; e.g. <code><nowiki>[[Special:Diff|see diff page]]</nowiki></code>.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Some special pages can take a parameter value after a slash character; e.g. <code><nowiki>[[Special:Diff/6372234]]</nowiki></code> takes a user to the 6372234 revision ID of this page.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Some special pages are [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Transclusion|transcludable]], and some other ones are not.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For example, you may transclude the list of [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Recent changes|recent changes]] with <code><nowiki>{{Special:RecentChanges}}</nowiki></code>.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">But, transcluding <code><nowiki>{{Special:Random}}</nowiki></code> gives {{Special:Random}}.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You cannot create a [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Redirects|redirection]] towards a special page: it will display a link towards the page instead of a direct redirect to it.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">However, some special pages have [[#Page name alias and localization|built-in aliases which redirect to them]].</span>

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=== Links containing URL query strings ===
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Since the ampersand (<code>&</code>) is not allowed, you can't create a standard link with <code>&action=edit</code> or <code>&redirect=no</code> in the URL query string.
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== Page name alias and localization ==
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Unlike other namespaces, the first heading of pages in the <code>Special:</code> namespace is not consistent with the page name in the URL.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The <code>Special:</code> prefix is not displayed, and the heading text may vary a bit from the page name.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Each special page has a default English name, but it may also have aliases, i.e. other special page names which redirect to it.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Besides, on non-English wikis (i.e. {{ll|Manual:$wgLanguageCode|$wgLanguageCode}} different from “en”), special page names are localized, and English names are aliases which redirect to the localized page name.</span>

{{Note|type=reminder|text=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The localized aliases only work in one language per wiki, in addition to English ones; e.g. Italian special page names only work on Italian wikis. Multilingual wikis with [[Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Translate|Translate extension]] only support English names.</span>}}

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The <code>Special:</code> namespace prefix itself may be localized depending on the wiki content language.
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For example, in each project's language, the word used for "Special" in special page names like <code>Special:Statistics</code> is different. Here is the equivalent term in each language:
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* {{#language:de|{{PAGELANGUAGE}}}}: <code>Spezial:Statistik</code>
* {{#language:es|{{PAGELANGUAGE}}}}: <code>Especial:Estadísticas</code>
* {{#language:fr|{{PAGELANGUAGE}}}}: <code>Spécial:Statistiques</code>
* {{#language:nl|{{PAGELANGUAGE}}}}: <code>Speciaal:Statistieken</code>

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== List of special pages ==
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''[[Special:SpecialPages|Special:SpecialPages]]'' shows a list of almost all special pages on a wiki. It is often linked in the [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Navigation#Toolbox|toolbox]] on the side panel.
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{{:Help:Special pages/list
| this list  = <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This list:</span>
| includable = <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">includable</span>
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* [[w:Help:Special page]]
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