MediaWiki:Adminctrls-body

This page collects the special pages and admin tools that are most useful for running Pharmacopedia. Most of these enforce their own permissions — non-admins will see access-denied messages on the ones they shouldn't reach.

Moderation & review

Pending content

• Special:PendingChanges — pages with unreviewed edits awaiting approval
• Special:UnreviewedPages — pages never reviewed
• Special:StablePages — pages with a stable reviewed version configured

Abuse & spam

• Special:AbuseFilter — manage abuse filter rules
• Special:AbuseLog — log of filter hits

Blocks

• Special:BlockList — currently blocked users/IPs
• Special:Block — block a user or IP
• Special:Unblock — unblock

Users

Discovery

• Special:ListUsers — every registered user, filterable by group
• Special:ActiveUsers — users with recent activity
• Special:NewUsers — recent signups (also under Template:Tl)

Management

• Special:UserRights — promote/demote users (sysop, admin, provider, user)
• Special:RenameUser — rename accounts
• Special:Contributions — any user's edit history
• Special:DeletedContributions — a user's deleted edits

Two-factor authentication

• Special:OATHManage — manage your own 2FA devices
• Special:OATHAuth — sysop tools for managing 2FA across users (disable, view log)

Content management

Activity feeds

• Special:RecentChanges — site-wide change feed
• Special:NewPages — newly created pages
• Special:Log — administrative actions (blocks, deletes, protections, signups)
• Special:PharmacopediaActivity — recent votes, effect reports, and comments

Maintenance

• Special:WantedPages — most-linked redlinks (good page-creation targets)
• Special:OrphanedPages — pages no one links to
• Special:DoubleRedirects — broken redirect chains
• Special:BrokenRedirects — redirects to nonexistent pages
• Special:ShortPages — stub pages worth expanding
• Special:UncategorizedPages — pages missing categories
• Special:UnusedTemplates — templates no page uses

Operations

• Special:Undelete — restore deleted pages
• Special:MovePage — rename a page (with redirect)
• Special:Nuke — bulk-delete recent pages by a user (anti-spam)

Files & media

• Special:Upload — upload new files
• Special:ListFiles — every uploaded file
• Special:NewFiles — recent uploads
• Special:UnusedFiles — uploaded files no page uses
• Special:MIMESearch — find files by type (e.g. PDFs, SVGs)
• Special:UploadStash — your incomplete uploads

Pharmacopedia data (Cargo)

• Special:CargoTables — every Cargo data table
• Special:CargoTables/Medicines — the medicines table view
• Special:Drilldown/Medicines — filterable browse of medicines by class, pregnancy category, route, etc.
• Special:CargoQuery — interactive cross-page SQL-ish queries
• Special:CargoExport — export Cargo data as CSV/JSON

Search & navigation

• Special:Search — full-text search
• Special:AllPages — every page, alphabetical
• Special:Categories — every category
• Special:CategoryTree — interactive category browser
• Special:Random — random page
• Special:WhatLinksHere — backlinks to a given page

System & configuration

• Special:Version — installed MediaWiki + extensions + skins (with versions)
• Special:Statistics — page count, edits, users, etc.
• Special:AllMessages — every system message text (editable as wiki pages)
• Special:Tags — change tags defined on the wiki
• Special:ListGroupRights — what each user group can do
• Special:Preferences — your own preferences
• Special:ApiSandbox — interactive API explorer for testing endpoints

Logs

• Special:Log/block — blocks/unblocks
• Special:Log/delete — page deletions
• Special:Log/move — page moves
• Special:Log/newusers — account creations
• Special:Log/rights — user-rights changes
• Special:Log/upload — file uploads
• Special:Log/protect — page protections
• Special:Log/review — FlaggedRevs approvals

Social profile features

These come from the SocialProfile extension bundle.

• Special:UpdateProfile — edit your social profile
• Special:UploadAvatar — set your avatar
• Special:RemoveAvatar — remove your avatar
• Special:ViewRelationships — friends / foes
• Special:TopUsers — leaderboard by site points
• Special:UserBoard — your user board messages

Quick links for a daily check

The four pages most worth checking once a day if you're running this actively:

1. Special:PendingChanges — anything to review?
2. Special:AbuseLog — anything filter-flagged?
3. Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1 — what's new?
4. Special:PharmacopediaActivity — votes / effect reports / comments