Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 5, 2009

Wikipedia's "special" pages

There are a few so-called "special pages". Most of them show the properties of and the relationships between articles. Special:Newpages gives you a list of all recently created articles, which is useful to spot newbie experiments. Special:Ancientpages is the exact opposite — it lists the oldest pages in the wiki. Many of them need work. Some of the special pages are only generated intermittently for performance reasons. Two useful ones are Most wanted stubs and Most wanted articles.

Read more: Help:Special page

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