Help:Special pages

Special pages are pages on Wikifunctions generated by the MediaWiki software for special reasons. These pages are found in the special namespace, which is a namespace of pages that cannot be directly edited. A list of all existent special pages on this wiki is available at Special:SpecialPages.

Editing a special page

Special pages cannot be directly edited, but system messages in the MediaWiki namespace are able to be edited by administrators and interface administrators. Pages in the MediaWiki namespace are system messages, and making changes to them will also cause changes to the MediaWiki interface.

Example

For example, Special:BadTitle (which appears as a redlink but is a valid special page) can be edited by an administrator or interface administrator by editing the system message at MediaWiki:Badtitletext.

Transclusion of a special page

There are a few special pages on Wikifunctions that can be transcluded by adding {{Special:PageName}}, where "PageName" should be replaced with the name of the special page.

Examples

When transcluding Special:RecentChanges, that would produce:

List of abbreviations:

D

Wikidata edit

F

Edit from Wikifunctions

N

This edit created a new page (also see list of new pages)

m

This is a minor edit

b

This edit was performed by a bot

(±123)

The page size changed by this number of bytes

24 April 2025

• diffhist list of language codes to languages (Z24219) 03:08 +22 99of9 talk contribs (Added Z24221 to the approved list of test cases)
• diffhist N ["vec", "it", "mul", "en"] (Z24221) 03:07 +1,106 99of9 talk contribs
• diffhist list of language codes to languages (Z24219) 03:05 +22 99of9 talk contribs (Added Z24220 to the approved list of implementations)
• diffhist N list of language codes to languages, composition (Z24220) 03:05 +944 99of9 talk contribs
• diffhist N list of language codes to languages (Z24219) 03:04 +1,646 99of9 talk contribs
• diffhist User:99of9/sandbox 00:34 +45 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist User:Dv103/Sandbox 00:32 +45 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist N Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls with wrong number of inputs 00:32 +43 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist User:99of9 00:31 +45 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist User:Jdforrester (WMF)/Test 00:31 +46 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist N Category:Pages with errored Wikifunctions calls without a clear error 00:30 +43 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist N Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls using non-string Objects 00:30 +43 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls/sandbox 00:27 +45 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls 00:27 +44 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist N Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls 00:26 +78 99of9 talk contribs (Pages that make embedded calls to Wikifunctions can be added to this category.)
• diffhist N Category:Pages with errored Wikifunctions calls due to failed evaluation 00:24 +43 99of9 talk contribs (Category:Pages with Wikifunctions calls)
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Project chat 00:14 +321 99of9 talk contribs (→Language fallback: Reply) Tag: Reply

23 April 2025

• diffhist Wikifunctions:Project chat 22:59 +306 GrounderUK talk contribs (→Language fallback: update on Wikidata lexemes by item, property and language (Z24107)) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• User creation log 22:47 User account OfeliaKelsey343 talk contribs was created
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls 22:10 +36 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (Actually finish the thought. :-)) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist m Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls 22:06 −3 GrounderUK talk contribs (→Use on any other wikis: typos)
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Suggest a function 21:40 +290 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (→SVG Functions: Reply) Tag: Reply
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Project chat 21:38 +382 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (→Renderlang and parselang: Reply) Tag: Reply
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Project chat 21:37 +1,084 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (→Embedded Wikifunctions calls sandbox and testing notes: new section) Tag: New topic
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls 21:30 +1,083 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (+ Calling Wikifunctions from within a template or parser function) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls 21:17 +909 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (Add a little more context.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist N Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls/sandbox 20:57 +72 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (Create.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist N Wikifunctions:Embedded function calls 20:56 +10,376 Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs (Create this page.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist N [“stuga”…] ↤ [cottage, house, building],[sv,de,en] (Z24218) 17:16 +1,637 GrounderUK talk contribs (vv➕Test case (Z20): [“stuga”…] ↤ [cottage, house, building],[sv,de,en])
• diffhist lexemes from languages x items, apply2 Composition (Z24217) 16:34 +1 GrounderUK talk contribs (Semantic fallback before language fallback)
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Suggest a function 15:28 +376 VIGNERON talk contribs (→SVG Functions: +)
• diffhist Wikidata lexemes by item, property and language (Z24107) 14:49 +22 GrounderUK talk contribs (Added Z24217 to the approved list of implementations)
• diffhist N lexemes from languages x items, apply2 Composition (Z24217) 14:48 +2,426 GrounderUK talk contribs (Wikidata lexemes by item, property and language (Z24107)➕Implementation (Z14): …apply a two-parameter function pairwise to two lists, composition (Z14781), Lexeme references from Wikidata item reference (Z23471), Cartesian product as two lists (Z24207), first element (Z811), second element (Z16360))
• Page translation log 14:30 Minorax talk contribs marked Wikifunctions:Function model for translation
• Page translation log 14:29 Minorax talk contribs marked Wikifunctions:Excel functions for translation
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Function model 14:29 −235 Minorax talk contribs
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Excel functions 14:27 −402 Minorax talk contribs
• Page translation log 14:25 Minorax talk contribs marked Wikifunctions:Working with Wikidata content for translation
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Working with Wikidata content 14:25 −6 Minorax talk contribs
• Page translation log 14:25 Minorax talk contribs marked Wikifunctions:Working with Wikidata content for translation
• Page translation log 14:25 Minorax talk contribs marked Wikifunctions:Status updates/2024-08-02 for translation
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Working with Wikidata content 14:24 −52 Minorax talk contribs
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Status updates/2024-08-02 14:24 −25 Minorax talk contribs
• Page translation log 14:22 Minorax talk contribs marked Template:Wikifunctions updates for translation
• diffhist m Template:Wikifunctions updates 14:21 +4 Minorax talk contribs (Reverted edit by Minorax (talk) to last revision by আফতাবুজ্জামান) Tag: Rollback
• Page translation log 14:20 Minorax talk contribs marked Template:Wikifunctions updates for translation
• diffhist Template:Wikifunctions updates 14:20 −4 Minorax talk contribs (see if this fixes Special:LintErrors/stripped-tag) Tag: Reverted
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Status updates/2024-07-10/ru 14:19 −30 Minorax talk contribs (Created page with "Предыдущее обновление")
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Status updates/2024-04-03/ru 14:19 −30 Minorax talk contribs (Created page with "Предыдущее обновление")
• diffhist Wikifunctions:Status updates/2024-04-11/ru 14:19 −30 Minorax talk contribs (Created page with "Предыдущее обновление")

When transcluding Special:RecentChangesLinked/Z12863, that would produce:

No changes during the given period match these criteria.

Problems with transcluding

Many special pages cannot have its contents read when transcluding it. This would result in only a link to the special page. For example, when transcluding Special:SpecialPages, that would produce: Special:SpecialPages

The above transclusion is a link to the special page rather than its contents.

Valid and invalid special pages

Valid special pages

There are multiple special pages that exist on Wikifunctions, and a list can be found at Special:SpecialPages.

Invalid special pages

Requesting an invalid special page will display a "No such special page" message. For example, Special:Special is an invalid special page, and clicking on it will not result in it being edited. The system message is available in the MediaWiki namespace, at MediaWiki:Nospecialpagetext. It looks like this:

You have requested an invalid special page.

A list of valid special pages can be found at Special pages.

At the bottom of the system message, there is a button that directs you to Wikifunctions:Main Page.

Linking problems

If a link to a non-existent special page (example: Special:RedLink) is added, it would be displayed as a red link. However, there is a problem, that being Special:BadTitle being displayed as a red link even though it is a valid special page.