Help:Magic words
Magic words are strings of text that MediaWiki associates with a return value or function, such as time, site details, or page names. This page is about usage of standard magic words; for a technical reference, see Manual:Magic words.
General notes
- Inheritance: page-dependent magic words will affect or return data about the current page, regardless of whether it is in the page code or a transcluded template.
Behaviour switches
A behaviour switch controls the layout of the page. They are written as a magic word wrapped with double underscores.
Word | Description | Versions |
---|---|---|
Table of contents | ||
__NOTOC__ | Hides the table of contents (TOC). | |
__FORCETOC__ | Forces the table of content to appear at its normal position (above the first header). | |
__TOC__ | Places a table of contents at the word's current position (overriding __NOTOC__). If this is used multiple times, the table of contents will appear at the first word's position. | |
Editing | ||
__NOEDITSECTION__ | Hides the section edit links beside headings. | |
__NEWSECTIONLINK__ | Adds a link (("+" by default) beside the "edit" tab for adding a new section on a non-talk page (see m:Help:Section#Adding a section at the end). | 1.7+ |
Categories | ||
__NOGALLERY__ | Used on a category page, replaces thumbnails in the category view with normal links. | 1.7+ |
__HIDDENCAT__ | Used on a category page, hides the category from the lists of categories in its members and parent categories (there is an option in the user preferences to show them). | 1.13+ |
Language conversion | ||
__NOCONTENTCONVERT__ __NOCC__ |
On wikis with language variants, don't perform any content language conversion (character and phase) in article display; for example, only show Chinese (zh) instead of variants like zh_cn, zh_tw, zh_sg, or zh_hk. | |
__NOTITLECONVERT__ __NOTC__ |
On wikis with language variants, don't perform language conversion on the title (all other content is converted). | |
Other | ||
__END__ | Explicitly marks the end of the article, to prevent MediaWiki from removing trailing whitespace (does not seem to work anymore). | |
__START__ | No effect. |
Variables
The syntax of variables is similar to templates, but capitalized to help avoid conflicts. If a template has the same name and case as a variable, the variable will be used. Usage of the template can be forced by adding the "msg:" modifier (for example, "{{msg:CURRENTYEAR}}
"). In some cases, adding parameters will force the parser to treat a variable as a template; for example, {{CURRENTDAYNAME|x}}
tries to transclude "Template:CURRENTDAYNAME".
Date & time
The following variables return the current date and time according to the user's timezone preferences, defaulting to the UTC timezone.
Due to MediaWiki and browser caching, these variables frequently show when the page was cached rather than the current time.
Variable | Output | Description | Versions |
---|---|---|---|
Year | |||
{{CURRENTYEAR}} | 2024 | Year | |
Month | |||
{{CURRENTMONTH}} | 11 | Month (zero-padded number) | |
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} | November | Month (name) | |
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} | November | Month (genitive form) | |
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} | Nov | Month (abbreviation) | 1.5+ |
Day | |||
{{CURRENTDAY}} | 8 | Day of the month (unpadded number) | |
{{CURRENTDAY2}} | 08 | Day of the month (zero-padded number) | 1.6+ |
{{CURRENTDOW}} | 5 | Day of the week (unpadded number) | |
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} | Friday | Day of the week (name) | |
Time | |||
{{CURRENTTIME}} | 00:47 | Time (24-hour HH:mm format) | |
{{CURRENTHOUR}} | 00 | Hour (24-hour zero-padded number) | |
Other | |||
{{CURRENTWEEK}} | 45 | Week (number) | |
{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} | 20241108004755 | ISO 8601 time stamp | 1.7+ |
The following variables do the same as the above, but using the site's local timezone instead of user preferences and UTC:
- {{LOCALYEAR}}
- {{LOCALMONTH}}
- {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
- {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
- {{LOCALDAY}}
- {{LOCALDAY2}}
- {{LOCALDOW}}
- {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
- {{LOCALTIME}}
- {{LOCALHOUR}}
- {{LOCALWEEK}}
- {{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
Technical metadata
Revision variables return data about the latest edit to the current page, even if viewing an older version of the page.
Variable | Output | Description | Versions |
---|---|---|---|
Site | |||
{{SITENAME}} | EHWiki | The wiki's site name. | |
{{CURRENTVERSION}} | 1.35.14 | The wiki's MediaWiki version. | 1.7+ |
{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} | en | The wiki's default interface language. | |
Latest revision to current page | |||
{{REVISIONID}} | 51 | Unique ID | |
{{REVISIONDAY}} | 7 | Day edit was made (unpadded number) | |
{{REVISIONDAY2}} | 07 | Day edit was made (zero-padded number) | |
{{REVISIONMONTH}} | 04 | Month edit was made (unpadded number) | |
{{REVISIONYEAR}} | 2008 | Year edit was made | |
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} | 20080407232044 | Timestamp as of time of edit |
Statistics
Numbers returned by these variables contain number separators, but can return raw numbers with the ":R" flag (for example, {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
= 16,698 and {{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
= 16698).
Variable | Output | Description | Versions |
---|---|---|---|
Entire wiki | |||
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}} | 16,698 | Number of wiki pages. | 1.7+ |
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} | 7,082 | Number of pages in main namespace. | |
{{NUMBEROFFILES}} | 578 | Number of uploaded files. | 1.5+ |
{{NUMBEROFEDITS}} | 62,429 | Number of page edits. | 1.10+ |
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}} | 77,373 | Number of registered users. | 1.7+ |
{{NUMBEROFADMINS}} | 5 | Number of users in in the sysop group. | 1.7+ |
URL data
URLs
Variable | Output | Description | Versions |
---|---|---|---|
{{SERVER}} | https://ehwiki.org | domain URL (Template:mediawiki) | |
{{SERVERNAME}} | ehwiki.org | domain name (Template:mediawiki) | |
{{SCRIPTPATH}} | relative script path (Template:mediawiki) | ||
{{localurl:page name}} {{localurl:page name|query string}} |
/wiki/page_name /index.php?title=page_name&query string |
relative path to title | |
{{fullurl:page name}} {{fullurl:page name|query string}} |
https://ehwiki.org/wiki/page_name https://ehwiki.org/index.php?title=page_name&query string |
absolute path to title |
Page names
Variable | Output | Description | Versions |
---|---|---|---|
{{FULLPAGENAME}} | Help:Magic words | Namespace and page title. | |
{{PAGENAME}} | Magic words | Page title. | |
{{BASEPAGENAME}} | Magic words | Page title excluding the current subpage and namespace ("Title" on "Title/foo"). | 1.7+ |
{{SUBPAGENAME}} | Magic words | The subpage title ("foo" on "Title/foo"). | 1.6+ |
{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}} | Help:Magic words | The namespace and title of the associated content page. | 1.7+ |
{{TALKPAGENAME}} | Help talk:Magic words | The namespace and title of the associated talk page. | 1.7+ |
The following are URL-encoded equivalents:
- {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
- {{PAGENAMEE}}
- {{BASEPAGENAMEE}}
- {{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
- {{SUBJECTPAGENAMEE}}
- {{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
Namespaces
Variable | Output | Description | Versions |
---|---|---|---|
{{NAMESPACE}} | Help | Namespace (name) | |
{{SUBJECTSPACE}} | Help | Name of the associated content namespace | |
{{TALKSPACE}} | Help talk | Name of the associated talk namespace |
The following are URL-encoded equivalents:
- {{NAMESPACEE}}
- {{SUBJECTSPACEE}}
- {{TALKSPACEE}}
{{ns:}}
returns the localized namespace name for that number of constant. The default values are:
Usage | Output |
---|---|
{{ns:-2}} or {{ns:Media}} | Media |
{{ns:-1}} or {{ns:Special}} | Special |
{{ns:0}} | |
{{ns:1}} or {{ns:Talk}} | Talk |
{{ns:2}} or {{ns:User}} | User |
{{ns:3}} or {{ns:User_talk}} | User talk |
{{ns:4}} or {{ns:Project}} | EHWiki |
{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}} | EHWiki talk |
{{ns:6}} or {{ns:Image}} | File |
{{ns:7}} or {{ns:Image_talk}} | File talk |
{{ns:8}} or {{ns:MediaWiki}} | MediaWiki |
{{ns:9}} or {{ns:MediaWiki_talk}} | MediaWiki talk |
{{ns:10}} or {{ns:Template}} | Template |
{{ns:11}} or {{ns:Template_talk}} | Template talk |
{{ns:12}} or {{ns:Help}} | Help |
{{ns:13}} or {{ns:Help_talk}} | Help talk |
{{ns:14}} or {{ns:Category}} | Category |
{{ns:15}} or {{ns:Category_talk}} | Category talk |