Restricted Pages

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These pages are only available to users with special rights. Most of them are linked from the corresponding places in MediaWiki interface.

Sysops

• Block user (Blockip)

Block or unblock users, IPs and ranges of IPs.

• View deleted pages (Undelete)

Restore all or some revisions of deleted page

• Deleted user contributions (DeletedContributions)

Show user's contributions to deleted pages, see mw:Extension:DeletedContributions.

• Import pages (Import)

Imports the wikitext and metadata of one or more revisions of one or more pages by uploading an XML file in the format produced by Special:Export (typically after applying the latter at another MediaWiki project). See Help:Import.

• Unwatched pages (Unwatchedpages)

List of pages not watched by anyone.

• ⧼Nuke⧽ (Nuke)

Mass deletions of pages recently added by a given user or IP. This is mw:Extension:Nuke, enabled only on some Wikimedia projects.

Bureaucrats

• Special:Makesysop: make a user into a sysop, see mw:Extension:Makesysop
• Special:Makebot: make a user into a bot, see mw:Extension:MakeBot.
• Special:Renameuser: rename user account, see mw:Extension:Renameuser.

CheckUsers

• Special:CheckUser: get user IP, see Help:CheckUser.

Oversight

• Special:Oversight: see Hiding revisions.

Stewards

• User rights (Userrights): give and remove user access rights (e.g. sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser) on any Wikimedia project. On some projects also available to sysops for giving users patrol or rollback flags.

Developers

• Special:Lockdb: Lock database, puts the wiki in read only mode.
• Special:Unlockdb: Unlock database: returns the wiki to read/write mode.