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==Instructions==
This procedure was determined by experimentation; there doesn't seem to be any official documentation yet.

# Copy an existing Special page to use as a template; they are in the '''includes/''' folder, and are named '''Special*.php''' (first character of "*" should be capitalized). Whatever you use as the "*" becomes the variable-name for the new page; I'll use "Tester" as an example.
# The new Special page must define a function called "wfSpecial*()" ("wfSpecialTester()" in this example).
# Edit SpecialPage.php and add a line to the initialization of the $wgSpecialPages array:
 'Tester'		=> new SpecialPage( 'Tester' ),
# Create a new page called '''Mediawiki:Tester'''; its contents become the title of the new page. This title will show up in [[Special:Specialpages]], too.
# Now you can modify the code in SpecialTester.php to do whatever it was you wanted to do.

''Note for MediaWiki developers: see how the insertion of a code-block in the above list breaks the numbering, even though there are no blank lines? We need some way to prevent that, or at least to hard-code the initial number in a sequence.''