Help:Page actions

This page gives a summary of all page actions.For a summary of account actions see: Help:Accounts

Each page can handle noumerous page actions, depending on the name space it is in. Some actions can be accessed by every registered users, some are restricted and can only be done by administrators and members of other privileged user groups.

View
This page action views the compiled source code of a page. On this site, this action is not restricted except from a few special pages. As an example: This action is the one you are currently doing with your account by accessing this page.

Edit
Most name spaces can be edited. An exception is the special pages namespace, which requires the edit of system messages. Messages (prefix: ) are the only kind of pages which can only be edited by administrators. Articles, templates etc. can be edited by everyone who has logged into this site.

For saving the changes the action submit is used.

Move
All pages, except from categories can be moved. This action is also known as "rename" and can be handled via Special:MovePage. The action is restricted to members of the user group of administrators, but requestions can be done via Template:Move.

Delete
Deletions can be done by administrators and can be requested by users using Template:Deletion (see: Help:Deletion). Administrators have to check all links to the page before deleting it. Templates in use have to be marked as "obsolete" (via: Template:ObsoleteTemplate). Categories must be unused before being deleted.

Purge
This action clears the browser's session cache of the current page (see: Help:Cache for more information about this). This can be done using a browser-specific shortcut (Mozilla-Firefox / Internet-Explorer / Google-Chrome: + ) or the URL parameter. This action is not restricted to a special group of users and is automatically accessed when submitting an edit.

History
Every type of pages, except from special pages support a display of all its past revisions. The page action generates a list of all page versions, including tools to compare two revisions' source texts. The action is available for all user groups, but only administrators can see and filter deleted contributions.