[Mediawiki-l] How to find administration pages?

[Ken McDonald]

As a brand-new MW admin, my understanding is that the MediaWiki: 
namespace has various protected special pages that might make my admin 
task easier. But a search on "MediaWiki:" didn't turn up any titles, nor 
can I find any other entry points to such pages. (I am operating with 
full "sysop" access.) Am I misunderstanding something? Is most of the 
administration currently done via mysql and editing .php files?

Thanks,
Ken