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The 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.

Alphabetical order

This section appears in Help:Page name, Help:Category, and Help:Special page.

The system applies alphabetical order only in page names, namely in the following features:

• Special:Allpages
• categories

They are in Unicode order: the range 32-127 corresponds to ASCII, for more characters see w:en:Table of Unicode characters, 128 to 999, etc.

Thus we have the following partial list showing the order:

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_'
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«­®¯°±²³´µ•¸¹º»¼½¾¿
ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ
ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĬĭĮįİıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿŀŁłŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋ
ŌōŎŏŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮůŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžſ
ǺǻǼǽǾǿ΄΅Ά·ΈΉΊΌΎΏΐ
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩΪΫάέήίΰ
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρςστυφχψωϊϋόύώ

Note in particular that "a" comes after "Z", and e.g. "é" after "z". The blank space within a page name is treated as an underscore, and therefore comes after the capitals, and before the lower case letters. However, a "blank space" after the name comes before any character. Sometimes a special character looks like a regular letter, but has a special code anyway.

Thus we have the order PC, PCX, PC Bruno, PCjr, Κύρια Σελίδα.

See also:

• Pages starting with a special character.
• collating.
• bugzilla:164

Special pages for all users

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.

Special pages 

Special:Specialpages : A list of all special pages

Preferences 

Special:Preferences : Set your user preferences; for some project families, notably Wikicities, this applies for the whole family. See Help:Preferences.

My watchlist 

Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)

Recent changes 

Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits in the project. The header is Project:Recentchanges, e.g. for Wikipedia; links to Recent Changes of many language versions of Wikipedia are in Meta:Recentchanges/All languages; see also Recent changes help

Upload file 

Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki. (Upload help)

Image list 

Special:Imagelist : List of images uploaded that can be sorted by size or date

Statistics 

Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users

Random page 

Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page from the main namespace which is not a redirect

Orphaned pages 

Special:Lonelypages : Meta:Orphaned articles

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)

Unused images 

Special:Unusedimages

Wanted pages 

Special:Wantedpages : Meta:Most wanted articles

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

Long pages 

Special:Longpages - pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size

New pages 

Special:Newpages : new pages in the main namespace - 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

Oldest pages 

Special:Ancientpages - pages in the main namespace, with creation date and time, in order of creation

Dead-end pages 

Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links.

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 temporarily disabled. Modèle:New

List of blocked IP addresses and usernames 

Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames

Book sources 

Special:Booksources :

Categories 

Special:Categories

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 and import.

Version 

Special:Version : The version of the software the site is currently running

Special:SiteMatrix : list of all projects

Talk page 

Special:Mytalk : Link to the talk page of the user who follows it.