Help:Magic words

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<languages /> Template:PD Help Page Template:TOCRight <translate> 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 explains only the standard magic words; for a technical reference, see <tvar name=1>Manual:Magic words </tvar>.

There are three general types of magic words:

  • [[<tvar name=bs>#Behavior switches</tvar>|Behavior switches]]: these are usually written as uppercase words surrounded by double underscores, e.g. __FOO__.</translate>

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  • [[<tvar name=var>#Variables</tvar>|Variables]]: these are uppercase words surrounded by double braces, e.g. {{FOO}}. As such, they look a lot like [[<tvar name=help-templates>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Templates</tvar>|templates]].</translate>

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  • [[<tvar name=pfunc>#Parser functions</tvar>|Parser functions]]: these take parameters and are either of the form <tvar name=1>{{foo:...}}</tvar> or <tvar name=2>{{#foo:...}}</tvar>, e.g. <tvar name=3>Template:Magic word</tvar>. See also <tvar name=help-ext-parser-functions>Help:Extension:ParserFunctions </tvar> and <tvar name=4>Extension:Scribunto </tvar>.

Variables and parser functions can use [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:subst</tvar>|subst:]], just like templates. Page-dependent magic words will affect or return data about the current page (by default), even if the word is added through a transcluded template or included system message.

Behavior switches

A behavior switch controls the layout or behavior of the page (if supported by the skin) and can often be used to specify desired omissions and inclusions in the content. Notably some of these are not supported by the [[<tvar name=minerva>Skin:MinervaNeue</tvar>|Minerva skin]].</translate>

<translate> Word</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>
<translate> [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Table of contents</tvar>|Table of contents]]</translate>

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__NOTOC__ <translate> Hides the [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/table of contents</tvar>|table of contents]] (TOC).</translate>

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__FORCETOC__ <translate> Forces the table of contents to appear at its normal position (before the first header, overriding <tvar name=notoc>__NOTOC__</tvar>).</translate> <translate> This will not work in skins that present table of contents outside the article content e.g. [[<tvar name=1>Skin:Vector/2022</tvar>|Vector 2022 skin]].</translate>

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__TOC__ <translate> Places a table of contents at the word's current position (overriding <tvar name=notoc>__NOTOC__</tvar>).</translate> <translate> If this is used multiple times, the table of contents will appear at the first word's position.</translate> <translate> This will not work in skins that present table of contents outside the article content e.g. [[<tvar name=1>Skin:Vector/2022</tvar>|Vector 2022 skin]].</translate>
<translate> Editing</translate>

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__NOEDITSECTION__ <translate> Hides the section edit links beside headings. This is especially useful where a heading is created from within a template: the normal wiki section-edit would in this case edit the template code, which is usually not what the user intends.</translate> <translate> Use of this in a template will extend the effect to that template, the pages it's included on, and any other templates included on the same page.</translate> <translate> [[<tvar name=meta>m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Editing sections of included templates</tvar>|A workaround is possible]].</translate>

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__NEWSECTIONLINK__ <translate> Adds a link beside the "<tvar name=2>Edit</tvar>" tab for adding a new section on a non-talk page (see [[<tvar name=1>m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Section#Adding a section at the end</tvar>|Adding a section to the end]]).</translate> Template:MW version

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__NONEWSECTIONLINK__ <translate> Removes the link beside the "<tvar name=1>Edit</tvar>" tab on pages in talk namespaces.</translate> Template:MW version
<translate> Categories</translate>

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__NOGALLERY__ <translate> Used on a category page, replaces thumbnails in the category view with normal links.</translate> Template:MW version

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__HIDDENCAT__ <translate> 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 [[<tvar name=help-preferences>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Preferences</tvar>|user preferences]] to show them).</translate> Template:MW version

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__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__ <translate> Used on a category page, removes the category from Special:UnusedCategories.</translate> Template:MW version
<translate> Language conversion</translate>

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__NOCONTENTCONVERT__
__NOCC__ 		<translate> 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.</translate>

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__NOTITLECONVERT__
__NOTC__ 		<translate> On wikis with language variants, don't perform language conversion on the title (all other content is converted).</translate>
<translate> Other</translate>

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__START__ <translate> No effect.</translate> <translate> Was used to point where database message starts after comment that should not be transcluded.</translate> <translate> Removed in <tvar name=1>Template:Rev</tvar> and completely removed in <tvar name=2>Template:Rev</tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version

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__END__ <translate> Explicitly marks the end of the article, to prevent MediaWiki from removing trailing whitespace.</translate> <translate> Removed in <tvar name=1>19213</tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version

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__INDEX__ <translate> Tell search engines to index the page (overrides <tvar name=1>$wgArticleRobotPolicies </tvar> but not robots.txt). It obeys <tvar name=2>$wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl </tvar> variable.</translate> Template:MW version

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__NOINDEX__ <translate> Tell search engines not to index the page (i.e. do not list in search engines' results). It obeys <tvar name=1>$wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl </tvar> variable.</translate> Template:MW version

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__STATICREDIRECT__ <translate> On redirect pages, don't allow MediaWiki to automatically update the link when someone moves a page and checks "<tvar name=2>Update any redirects that point to the original title</tvar>" (which requires <tvar name=1>$wgFixDoubleRedirects </tvar>).</translate> Template:MW version
<translate> From Extensions</translate>
<translate> Extension</translate> <translate> Word</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>

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GlobalUserPage __NOGLOBAL__ <translate> Disables the global user page.</translate> <translate> If present on the central user page, will prevent it from being displayed on remote wikis, and it also determines whether a link to a user page on remote wiki should be red or blue.</translate> Template:MW version

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Disambiguator __DISAMBIG__ <translate> Identifies a disambiguation page.</translate> Template:MW version

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Wikibase __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ <translate> Some wiki pages do not merit a Wikidata item, such as discussion archives, template subpages, etc. To prevent a wiki page from being listed in Special:UnconnectedPages, use this magic word anywhere on the page. Pages that don't meet [<tvar name=1>https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Notability</tvar> Wikidata's notability criteria] should not receive a Wikidata item.</translate> Template:MW version
DiscussionTools __ARCHIVEDTALK__ <translate> Hides "<tvar name=1>⧼discussiontools-replylink⧽</tvar>" links from discussions on archived pages.</translate> Template:MW version
__NOTALK__ <translate> Makes a page in a talk namespace not be treated like a talk page.</translate> Template:MW version

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Variables

Variables return information about the current page, wiki, or date. Their syntax is similar to [[<tvar name=help-templates>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Templates</tvar>|templates]]. Variables marked as "[expensive]" are tracked by the software, and the number that can be included on a page is limited. </translate>

<translate> If a template name conflicts with a variable, the variable will be used (so to transclude the template {{<tvar name=1>tmpl|0=Template:$1</tvar>|PAGENAME}} you would need to write {{<tvar name=2>tmpl|0={{Template:$1}}</tvar>|PAGENAME}}).</translate> <translate> In some cases, adding parameters will force the parser to invoke a template; for example, <tvar name=1>{{CURRENTDAYNAME|x}}</tvar> transcludes <tvar name=2>Template:CURRENTDAYNAME</tvar>, not the variable.</translate>

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Date and time

The following variables return the current date and time in UTC.

Due to MediaWiki and browser caching, these variables frequently show when the page was cached rather than the current time.

The use of those variables cause pages to be cached for a more limited number of seconds. This is configured in <tvar name=MagicWordFactory>MagicWordFactory</tvar>.

The date and time magic words are formatted in the wiki content language. Since <tvar name=2>Template:R</tvar>, they depend on the [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language#page-content-lang</tvar>|page content language]].</translate>

<translate> Variable</translate> <translate> Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>
<translate> Year</translate>

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{{CURRENTYEAR}} 2025 <translate> Year</translate>
<translate> Month</translate>

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{{CURRENTMONTH}}

{{CURRENTMONTH2}}

12 <translate> Month (zero-padded number)</translate>
{{CURRENTMONTH1}} 12 <translate> Month (unpadded number)</translate>
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} December <translate> Month (name)</translate>
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} December <translate> Month (genitive form)</translate>
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} Dec <translate> Month (abbreviation)</translate> Template:MW version
<translate> Day</translate>

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{{CURRENTDAY}} 8 <translate> Day of the month (unpadded number)</translate>
{{CURRENTDAY2}} 08 <translate> Day of the month (zero-padded number)</translate> Template:MW version
{{CURRENTDOW}} 1 <translate> Day of the week (unpadded number), 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)</translate>
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} Monday <translate> Day of the week (name)</translate>
<translate> Time</translate>

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{{CURRENTTIME}} 10:01 <translate> Time (24-hour HH:mm format)</translate>
{{CURRENTHOUR}} 10 <translate> Hour (24-hour zero-padded number)</translate>
<translate> Other</translate>

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{{CURRENTWEEK}} 50 <translate> Week (number)</translate>
{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} 20251208100147 <translate> YYYYMMDDHHmmss timestamp</translate> Template:MW version

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<translate> The following variables do the same as the preceding ones but using the site's server config or <tvar name=1>$wgLocaltimezone </tvar>. </translate>

  • {{LOCALYEAR}}
  • {{LOCALMONTH}}
  • {{LOCALMONTH1}}
  • {{LOCALMONTH2}}
  • {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
  • {{LOCALMONTHNAMEGEN}}
  • {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
  • {{LOCALDAY}}
  • {{LOCALDAY2}}
  • {{LOCALDOW}}
  • {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
  • {{LOCALTIME}}
  • {{LOCALHOUR}}
  • {{LOCALWEEK}}
  • {{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}

<translate> For more thorough time formatting, or to output the current year and week with better compliance with ISO-8601, you may want to install <tvar name=1>Extension:ParserFunctions </tvar> to use the <tvar name=2>#time </tvar> parser function.

Technical metadata

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<translate> Variable</translate> <translate> Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>

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<translate> Site</translate>

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{{SITENAME}} Interesting Times <translate> The wiki's site name (<tvar name=1>$wgSitename </tvar>).</translate>

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{{SERVER}} https://interesting-times.frost.cx <translate> Domain URL (<tvar name=1>$wgServer </tvar>).</translate>

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{{SERVERNAME}} interesting-times.frost.cx <translate> Subdomain and domain name (no longer dependent on <tvar name=1>$wgServerName </tvar> as of version 1.17).</translate>

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{{DIRMARK}}

{{DIRECTIONMARK}}

‎

‎

<translate> Outputs a Unicode directional mark that matches the wiki's default language's direction (<tvar name=2>&lrm;</tvar> on left-to-right wikis, <tvar name=3>&rlm;</tvar> on right-to-left wikis), useful in text with multi-directional text. Since <tvar name=4>Template:R</tvar>, it depends on the [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language#page-content-lang</tvar>|page content language]].</translate> Template:MW version

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{{ARTICLEPATH}} /wiki/$1 <translate> Relative article path (<tvar name=1>$wgArticlePath </tvar>).</translate>

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{{SCRIPTPATH}} /mediawiki <translate> Relative script path (<tvar name=1>$wgScriptPath </tvar>).</translate>

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{{STYLEPATH}} /mediawiki/skins <translate> Relative style path (<tvar name=1>$wgStylePath </tvar>).</translate> Template:MW version

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{{CURRENTVERSION}} 1.43.3 <translate> The wiki's MediaWiki version.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}

{{CONTENTLANG}}

en-gb

en-gb

<translate> The wiki's default interface language (<tvar name=1>$wgLanguageCode </tvar>).</translate> Template:MW version
<translate> Page</translate>

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{{PAGEID}} 22 <translate> Returns the [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Page table#page_id</tvar>|page identifier]].</translate> Template:MW version

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{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
{{#language:{{PAGELANGUAGE}}}} 		en-gb
British English 		<translate> Returns the language of the current page. The language code that this variable returns can be converted to a language name using <tvar name=1>{{#language:...}}</tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version
{{TRANSLATABLEPAGE}} Template:TRANSLATABLEPAGE <translate> Returns the title of the translation page (the page other languages are translated from) if a page is translatable (including translated pages), and nothing if the page is not translatable.</translate> Template:MW version

<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline="1" style=" backgrond-color:transparent; border:0; padding:0 ">Template:^(translateTemplate:)^Template:^(!--T:1--Template:)^ Translated unit. Language: Template:^(tvar name=lang>Template:((TRANSLATIONLANGUAGETemplate:))Template:^(/tvarTemplate:)^.Template:^(/translateTemplate:)^</syntaxhighlight>

<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline="1" style=" backgrond-color:transparent; border:0; padding:0 ">Template:^(translateTemplate:)^Template:^(!--T:2--Template:)^ Untranslated unit. Language: Template:^(tvar name=lang>Template:((TRANSLATIONLANGUAGETemplate:))Template:^(/tvarTemplate:)^.Template:^(/translateTemplate:)^</syntaxhighlight>

<translate> Translated unit. Language: <tvar name=1>Template:TRANSLATIONLANGUAGE</tvar>.</translate>

Not translated unit. Language: en.

<translate> Must be used in a translated page, inside <tvar name=1><translate></tvar> tags.</translate> <translate> Returns the language code of the current translation unit.</translate> <translate> In a translation page, if the unit has been translated, then it returns translation language.</translate> <translate> Else, it returns source language.</translate> <translate> The language code that this variable returns can be converted to a language name using <tvar name=1>{{#language:...}}</tvar>.</translate> <translate> Should only be used by [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration</tvar>|translation admins]].</translate> Template:MW version
{{PROTECTIONLEVEL:<translate> action</translate>}} <translate> Outputs the protection level (e.g. "autoconfirmed", "sysop") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the current page. Returns an empty string if not protected.</translate> Template:MW version
{{PROTECTIONEXPIRY:<translate> action</translate>}} <translate> Outputs the protection expiry (e.g. "20160418155030", "infinity") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the current page.</translate> <translate> Returns "infinity" if not protected.</translate> Template:MW version
{{CASCADINGSOURCES}} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Returns the sources of any cascading protection acting on the current page. Pages will not return their own title unless they transclude themselves.</translate> Template:MW version
<translate> Viewed revision of current page (latest revision or selected older revision)</translate>

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{{REVISIONID}} 46 <translate> Unique revision ID.</translate> <translate> It is always empty in preview, thus one can show an error message only in preview.</translate> <translate> May be disabled in [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgMiserMode</tvar>|miser mode (all WMF wikis)]] returning <tvar name=2>-</tvar> instead when not in preview.</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONDAY}} 11 <translate> Day edit was made (unpadded number).</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONDAY2}} 11 <translate> Day edit was made (zero-padded number).</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONMONTH}} 08 <translate> Month edit was made (zero-padded number as of <tvar name=1>1.17+</tvar>, unpadded number in prior versions).</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONMONTH1}} 8 <translate> Month edit was made (unpadded number).</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONYEAR}} 2023 <translate> Year edit was made.</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} 20230811122204 <translate> Timestamp as of time of edit.</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONUSER}} James <translate> The username of the user who made the edit in question, or the user previewing an edit.</translate> Template:MW version
{{REVISIONSIZE}} 99902 <translate> The size (bytes of wikitext) of the viewed revision of the page or preview</translate> Template:MW version
<translate> Affects page content</translate>

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:<translate> title</translate>}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:<translate> title</translate>|noerror}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:<translate> title</translate>|noreplace}} 		<translate> Format the current page's title header. The value must be equivalent to the default title: only capitalization changes to certain parts of the title (not all) and replacing spaces with underscores are allowed (this can be changed with <tvar name=1>$wgRestrictDisplayTitle </tvar>). It can be disabled or enabled by <tvar name=2>$wgAllowDisplayTitle </tvar>; disabled by default before 1.10+, enabled by default thereafter.</translate>

<translate> It can take a second argument of noerror or noreplace to suppress error messages when multiple displaytitles are used on one page or to make this displaytitle do nothing if a displaytitle was already specified earlier in the page.</translate>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:<translate> sortkey</translate>}}
{{DEFAULTSORTKEY:<translate> sortkey</translate>}}
{{DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT:<translate> sortkey</translate>}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:<translate> sortkey</translate>|noerror}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:<translate> sortkey</translate>|noreplace}} 		<translate> Used for categorizing pages, sets a default [[<tvar name=help-categories>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories</tvar>|category sort key]].</translate> <translate> For example if you put {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John}} at the end of John Smith, the page would be sorted under "S" by default in categories.</translate> <translate> It can take a second argument of noerror or noreplace to suppress error messages when multiple defaultsortkeys are used on one page or to make this <tvar name=sort2>defaultsort</tvar> do nothing if a <tvar name=sort3>defaultsort</tvar> was already specified earlier in the page.</translate> Template:MW version

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(<translate> for noerror and noreplace</translate>)

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Statistics

Numbers returned by these variables normally contain separators (commas, dots or spaces, depending on the local language) but can return raw numbers with the ":R" flag (for example, <tvar name=1>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}</tvar> → <tvar name=2>336</tvar> and <tvar name=3>{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</tvar> → <tvar name=4>336</tvar>). </translate>

<translate> Use "|R" for magic words that require a parameter like PAGESINCATEGORY (for example <tvar name=1>{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help}}</tvar> and <tvar name=2>{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|R}}</tvar>, or <tvar name=3>{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|subcats}}</tvar> and <tvar name=4>{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|subcats|R}}</tvar>).</translate> <translate> Also applicable to {{<tvar name=1>tmpl|0=Template:((PAGESIZE:$1Template:))</tvar>|page name}} hereinbefore.</translate>

<translate> The number magic words are formatted in the wiki content language. Since <tvar name=2>Template:R</tvar>, it depends on the [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language#page-content-lang</tvar>|page content language]]. </translate>

<translate> Variable</translate> <translate> Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>

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{{NUMBEROFPAGES}} 336 <translate> Number of wiki pages.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} 21 Manual:Using custom namespaces#content-ns</tvar>|content namespaces}} that qualify as articles.</translate> <translate> See <tvar name=1>Manual:$wgArticleCountMethod </tvar> for details.</translate>

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{{NUMBEROFFILES}} 8 <translate> Number of uploaded files.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{NUMBEROFEDITS}} 451 <translate> Number of wiki edits.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} <translate> Number of page views. Usually useless on a wiki using [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Cache</tvar>|caching]].</translate> <translate> Removed in <tvar name=gerrit>Template:Gerrit</tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{NUMBEROFUSERS}} 3 <translate> Number of registered users.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{NUMBEROFADMINS}} 1 Manual:User rights</tvar>|group}}.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} 0 <translate> Number of active users, based on the criteria used in Special:Statistics.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{PAGESINCATEGORY:<translate> categoryname</translate>}}
{{PAGESINCAT:<translate> categoryname</translate>}} 		1
1 		[<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Number of pages (including subcategories and files) in the given [[<tvar name=help-categories>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories</tvar>|category]]. (Category:Help used for demonstration)</translate> Template:MW version
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:<translate> categoryname</translate>|all}}
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:<translate> categoryname</translate>|pages}}
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:<translate> categoryname</translate>|subcats}}
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:<translate> categoryname</translate>|files}} 		1
1
0
0 		[<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate>

Respectively, the number of

  • all pages
  • ordinary pages (excluding subcategories and files)
  • subcategories or
  • files

in the given [[<tvar name=help-categories>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories</tvar>|category]]. (Category:Help used for demonstration)</translate>

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{{NUMBERINGROUP:<translate> groupname</translate>}}
{{NUMINGROUP:<translate> groupname</translate>}} 		1
1 		Manual:User rights</tvar>|group}}.</translate> (<translate> <tvar name=1>bureaucrat</tvar> used for demonstration</translate>) Template:MW version

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{{PAGESINNS:<translate> index</translate>}}
{{PAGESINNAMESPACE:<translate> index</translate>}} 		<translate> Not enabled</translate> [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Number of pages in the given [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespaces</tvar>|namespace]] (replace index with the relevant [[<tvar name=2>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Namespace</tvar>|namespace index]]).</translate> <translate> For instance, <tvar name=1>{{PAGESINNAMESPACE:14}}</tvar> will output the number of category pages. <tvar name=2>{{PAGESINNS:0}}</tvar> differs from <tvar name=3>{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</tvar> in that the former includes redirects and disambiguation pages.</translate> <translate> Disabled by default, enable with <tvar name=1>$wgAllowSlowParserFunctions </tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version

Script error: No such module "Loops". <translate>

Page names

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<translate> Variable</translate> <translate> For current page</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>

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{{FULLPAGENAME}} Help:Magic words <translate> Namespace and full page title (including all subpage levels).</translate> Template:MW version

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{{PAGENAME}} Magic words <translate> Full page title (including all subpage levels) without the namespace.</translate>

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{{BASEPAGENAME}} Magic words <translate> Page title of the page in the immediately superior [[<tvar name=help-subpages>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Subpages</tvar>|subpage]] level without the namespace.</translate> <translate> Would return <tvar name=foo>Title/Foo</tvar> on page <tvar name=baz>Help:Title/Foo/Bar</tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{ROOTPAGENAME}} Magic words <translate> Name of the root of the current page.</translate> <translate> Would return <tvar name=foo>Title</tvar> on page <tvar name=baz>Help:Title/Foo/Bar</tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{SUBPAGENAME}} Magic words <translate> The [[<tvar name=help-subpages>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Subpages</tvar>|subpage]] title.</translate> <translate> Would return <tvar name=foo>Bar</tvar> on page <tvar name=baz>Help:Title/Foo/Bar</tvar>.</translate>

<translate> If no subpage exists the value of <tvar name=code>{{PAGENAME}}</tvar> is returned.

For more complex splitting, use <tvar name=help-ext-pf-titleparts>{{#titleparts:}}</tvar> from the [[<tvar name=help-ext-pf>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions</tvar>|ParserFunctions extension]]. </translate>

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{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}
{{ARTICLEPAGENAME}} 		Help:Magic words
Help:Magic words 		<translate> Full page name of the associated subject (e.g. article or file). Useful on talk pages.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{TALKPAGENAME}} Help talk:Magic words <translate> Full page name of the associated talk page.</translate> Template:MW version

<translate> None of these are affected by changes to the display title using <tvar name=1>{{DISPLAYTITLE:xxxx}}</tvar>; the values returned are the original page title.

The <tvar name=basepagename>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</tvar> and <tvar name=subpagename>{{SUBPAGENAME}}</tvar> magic words only work in namespaces that have subpages enabled. See <tvar name=1>$wgNamespacesWithSubpages </tvar> for information on enabling subpages.

As of <tvar name=1>1.15+</tvar>, these can all take a parameter, allowing specification of the page to be operated on, instead of just the current page: </translate>

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URL encoded page names

The following are equivalents encoded for use in MediaWiki URLs (i.e. spaces replaced with underscores and some characters HTML escaped using numeric character encoding): </translate>

Script error: No such module "Loops".

  • {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
  • {{PAGENAMEE}}
  • {{BASEPAGENAMEE}}
  • {{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
  • {{SUBJECTPAGENAMEE}}
  • {{ARTICLEPAGENAMEE}}
  • {{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
  • {{ROOTPAGENAMEE}}

<translate> Note that <tvar name=pagename>{{PAGENAME:...}}</tvar>, <tvar name=pagenamee>{{PAGENAMEE:...}}</tvar> and <tvar name=uec>{{urlencode:...}}</tvar> have distinct implementations.</translate> <translate> See <tvar name=1>Manual:PAGENAMEE encoding </tvar> for details.</translate>

<translate>

Namespaces

</translate>

<translate> Variable</translate> <translate> Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>
{{NAMESPACE}} Help <translate> Name of the page's namespace</translate> <translate> (except for main space)</translate>
{{NAMESPACENUMBER}} 12 <translate> [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces</tvar>|ID]] of the page's namespace</translate> Template:MW version
{{SUBJECTSPACE}}
{{ARTICLESPACE}} 		Help
Help 		<translate> Name of the associated content namespace</translate> Template:MW version
{{TALKSPACE}} Help talk <translate> Name of the associated talk namespace</translate> Template:MW version

<translate> The following are equivalents encoded for use in MediaWiki URLs (spaces replaced with underscores and some characters percent-encoded): </translate>

  • {{NAMESPACEE}}
  • {{SUBJECTSPACEE}}
  • {{ARTICLESPACEE}}
  • {{TALKSPACEE}}

<translate> As of <tvar name=1>1.15+</tvar>, these can take a full-page-name parameter and will return the requested namespace associated with that page, instead of with the current page: </translate>

  • {{NAMESPACENUMBER:MediaWiki}} → 0
  • {{NAMESPACE:MediaWiki}} → (Pages in main space will return empty)
  • {{NAMESPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
  • {{SUBJECTSPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
  • {{ARTICLESPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
  • {{TALKSPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template talk

<translate> Parameter must not be a namespace name:</translate>

  • {{SUBJECTSPACE:Help talk}} →   (Empty)

<translate>

Other

</translate>

<translate> Variable</translate> <translate> Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>

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{{!}} | <translate> Used to include a pipe character as part of a template argument or table cell contents. Before this was added as a magic word, many wikis implemented this by creating <tvar name=1>Template:!</tvar> with <tvar name=2>|</tvar> as the content.</translate>

<translate> See [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#Escaping pipe characters in tables</tvar>|Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#Escaping pipe characters in tables]] for further explanation.</translate>

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{{=}} = <translate> Used to include an equal sign as part of a template argument or table cell contents.</translate> <translate> Before this was added as a magic word, many wikis implemented this by creating <tvar name=1>Template:=</tvar> with <tvar name=2>=</tvar> as the content.</translate>

<translate> See [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#Raw equal signs</tvar>|Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#Raw equal signs]] for further explanation.</translate>

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<translate>

Parser functions

Parser functions are very similar to variables but take one or more parameters (technically, any magic word that takes a parameter is a parser function), and the name is sometimes prefixed with a hash to distinguish them from templates.

This page only describes parser functions that are integral to the MediaWiki software. Other parser functions may be added by MediaWiki extensions such as the <tvar name=ext-pf>Extension:ParserFunctions </tvar>. For those see <tvar name=help-ext-pf>Help:Extension:ParserFunctions </tvar>.

Technical metadata of another page

</translate>

<translate> Parser function</translate> <translate> Output
(for page MediaWiki)</translate> 		<translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>

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{{PAGEID: <translate> page name</translate> }} 0 [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Returns the page identifier of the specified page*.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{PAGESIZE:<translate> page name</translate>}}
{{PAGESIZE: <translate> page name</translate> |R}} 		99,902
99902 		[<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Returns the byte size of the specified page. Use "<tvar name=r>|R</tvar>" to get raw (unformatted) numbers.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{PROTECTIONLEVEL:<translate> action</translate> | <translate> page name</translate>}} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Outputs the protection level (e.g. "autoconfirmed", "sysop") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the specified page. Returns an empty string if not protected.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{PROTECTIONEXPIRY: <translate> action</translate> | <translate> page name</translate>}} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Outputs the protection expiry (e.g. "20160418155030", "infinity") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the specified page.</translate> <translate> Returns "infinity" if not protected.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{CASCADINGSOURCES: page name}} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Returns the sources of any cascading protection acting on the specified page. Pages will not return their own title unless they transclude themselves.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONID: <translate> page name</translate> }} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Unique revision ID of the last revision on the specified page*.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONDAY: <translate> page name</translate> }} 0 [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Day of edit from the last revision of the specified page* (unpadded number).</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONDAY2: <translate> page name</translate> }} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Day of edit from the last revision of the specified page* (zero-padded number).</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONMONTH: <translate> page name</translate> }} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Month of edit from the last revision of the specified page* (zero-padded number as of <tvar name=1>1.17+</tvar>, unpadded number in prior versions).</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONMONTH1: <translate> page name</translate> }} 0 [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Month of edit from the last revision of the specified page* (unpadded number).</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONYEAR: <translate> page name</translate> }} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Year of edit from the last revision of the specified page*.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP: <translate> page name</translate> }} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> Timestamp as of time of edit on the specified page*.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{REVISIONUSER: <translate> page name</translate> }} [<translate> Expensive</translate>] <translate> The username from the last revision on the specified page*.</translate> Template:MW version
<translate>
  • When the given param is equal to the current title of the parser, the parser function will yield the previous versions on preview and on substitution, that includes empty strings when used on page creation but using the values from the current version for page view, including viewing old revisions. In this case it is a non-expensive parser function.

</translate>

<translate>

URL data

</translate>

<translate> Parser function</translate> <translate> Input → Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Versions</translate>

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{{localurl:<translate> page name</translate>}}
{{localurl:<translate> page name</translate>
|<translate> query_string</translate>}} 		{{localurl:MediaWiki}}
→ /wiki/MediaWiki
{{localurl:MediaWiki|printable=yes}}
→ /mediawiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki&printable=yes 		<translate> The relative path to the title. </translate>

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{{fullurl:<translate> page name</translate>}}
{{fullurl:<translate> page name</translate>
|<translate> query_string</translate>}}
{{fullurl:<translate> interwiki:remote page name</translate>
|<translate> query_string</translate>}} 		{{fullurl:Category:Top level}}
→ https://interesting-times.frost.cx/wiki/Category:Top_level

{{fullurl:Category:Top level|action=edit}}
→ https://interesting-times.frost.cx/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Top_level&action=edit
{{fullurl:s:Electra|action=edit}}
→ https://interesting-times.frost.cx/mediawiki/index.php?title=S:Electra&action=edit
{{fullurl:s:es:Electra|action=edit}}
→ https://interesting-times.frost.cx/mediawiki/index.php?title=S:es:Electra&action=edit

<translate> A protocol-relative path to the title, which depends on the <tvar name=1>$wgServer </tvar> configuration setting for the local wiki (and so may or may not start with <tvar name=prefix>http(s)://</tvar>). This will also resolve [[<tvar name=2>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interwiki</tvar>|interwiki]] prefixes. Note: Unbracketed (plain) protocol-relative links are not automagically linked.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{canonicalurl:<translate> page name</translate>}}
{{canonicalurl:<translate> page name</translate>
|<translate> query_string</translate>}}
{{canonicalurl:<translate> interwiki:remote page name</translate>
|<translate> query_string</translate>}} 		{{canonicalurl:Category:Top level}}
→ https://interesting-times.frost.cx/wiki/Category:Top_level

{{canonicalurl:Category:Top level|action=edit}}
→ https://interesting-times.frost.cx/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Top_level&action=edit {{canonicalurl:w:Category:Top level|action=edit}}
→ https://interesting-times.frost.cx/mediawiki/index.php?title=W:Category:Top_level&action=edit

<translate> The absolute path to the title, using the canonical URL. This will also resolve [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interwiki</tvar>|interwiki]] prefixes.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{filepath:<translate> file name</translate>}}
{{filepath:<translate> file name</translate>|nowiki}}
{{filepath:<translate> file name</translate>|<translate> thumbnail_size</translate>}} 		{{filepath:Wiki.png}}
→

{{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}}
→
{{filepath:Example.svg|300}}
→

<translate> The parameter <tvar name="1">nowiki</tvar> usually removes the link around the filepath (which can't be seen in this example).</translate>

<translate> A protocol-relative path to the full size or thumbnail (<tvar name=1>1.18+</tvar>) of a media file.</translate> Template:MW version
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{{urlencode:<translate> string</translate>}} <translate> or</translate>
{{urlencode:<translate> string</translate>|QUERY}}
{{urlencode:<translate> string</translate>|WIKI}}
{{urlencode:<translate> string</translate>|PATH}} 		{{urlencode:x:y/z á é}} <translate> or</translate>
{{urlencode:x:y/z á é|QUERY}}
→ x%3Ay%2Fz+%C3%A1+%C3%A9
{{urlencode:x:y/z á é|WIKI}}
→ x:y/z_%C3%A1_%C3%A9
{{urlencode:x:y/z á é|PATH}}
→ x%3Ay%2Fz%20%C3%A1%20%C3%A9

<translate> Note that the default changed from <tvar name=wiki>|WIKI</tvar> to <tvar name=query>|QUERY</tvar> in 1.17; this may break templates that rely on this function.</translate>

<translate> The input encoded for use in URLs. Note that there is no urldecode function like there is in the obsolete <tvar name=ext-stringfunctions>Extension:StringFunctions </tvar></translate>
<translate> Encoding</translate>
<translate> code</translate><translate> space</translate>
 none + 
QUERY + 
 WIKI _ 
 PATH%20
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{{anchorencode:<translate> string</translate>}} {{anchorencode:x y z á é}}
→ x_y_z_á_é 		<translate> The input encoded for use in URL section anchors (after the “#” symbol in a URL).</translate> Template:MW version

The following are equivalents encoded for use in MediaWiki URLs (some characters percent-encoded):

  • {{localurle:<translate> page name</translate>}}
  • {{localurle:<translate> page name</translate>|<translate> query_string</translate>}}
  • {{fullurle:<translate> page name</translate>}}
  • {{fullurle:<translate> page name</translate>|<translate> query_string</translate>}}
  • {{fullurle:<translate> interwiki:remote page name</translate>|<translate> query_string</translate>}}
  • {{canonicalurle:<translate> page name</translate>}}
  • {{canonicalurle:<translate> page name</translate>|<translate> query_string</translate>}}
  • {{canonicalurle:<translate> interwiki:remote page name</translate>|<translate> query_string</translate>}}

Script error: No such module "Loops". <translate>

Namespaces

</translate> <translate> <tvar name=ns>{{ns:}}</tvar> returns the current localized name for the [[<tvar name=help-ns>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespace</tvar>|namespace]] with that index, canonical name, or local alias.</translate> <translate> Thus <tvar name=ns6>{{ns:6}}</tvar>, <tvar name=ns-file>{{ns:File}}</tvar>, and <tvar name=ns-img>{{ns:Image}}</tvar> (an old name for the File namespace) all return "File".</translate> <translate> On a wiki where the content language is French, <tvar name=1>{{ns:Fichier}}</tvar> is also valid, but <tvar name=2>{{ns:Datei}}</tvar> (the localisation of "File" in German) is not.</translate>

<translate> The main namespace has no name, i.e. <tvar name="1">{{ns:0}}</tvar> returns an empty string.</translate> <translate> For explicitly referring to the main namespace, <tvar name="1">{{int:Blanknamespace}}</tvar> can be used, resulting in "<tvar name="2">(Main)</tvar>".</translate>

<translate> <tvar name=nse>{{nse:}}</tvar> is the equivalent encoded for MediaWiki URLs. It does the same, but it replaces spaces with underscores, making it usable in external links.</translate>

<translate> Content namespaces</translate> <translate> Talk namespaces</translate>
<translate> Usage</translate> <translate> Output</translate> <translate> Usage</translate> <translate> Output</translate>
{{ns:-2}} / {{ns:Media}} Media {{ns:-1}} / {{ns:Special}} Special
(no talk page)
{{ns:0}} / {{ns:}} {{ns:1}} / {{ns:Talk}} Talk
{{ns:2}} / {{ns:User}} User {{ns:3}} / {{ns:User talk}} User talk
{{ns:4}} / {{ns:Project}} Interesting Times
Varies between wikis 		{{ns:5}} / {{ns:Project talk}} Interesting Times talk
{{ns:6}} / {{ns:File}} or {{ns:Image}} File {{ns:7}} / {{ns:File talk}} or {{ns:Image talk}} File talk
{{ns:8}} / {{ns:MediaWiki}} MediaWiki {{ns:9}} / {{ns:MediaWiki talk}} MediaWiki talk
{{ns:10}} / {{ns:Template}} Template {{ns:11}} / {{ns:Template talk}} Template talk
{{ns:12}} / {{ns:Help}} Help {{ns:13}} / {{ns:Help talk}} Help talk
{{ns:14}} / {{ns:Category}} Category {{ns:15}} / {{ns:Category talk}} Category talk

<translate> Don't confuse localised namespaces with [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Using custom namespaces</tvar>|custom namespaces]].

Formatting

</translate>

<translate> Usage</translate> <translate> Input → Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Version</translate>

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{{formatnum:<translate> unformatted number</translate>}}
{{formatnum:<translate> formatnum-formatted number</translate>|R}}
{{formatnum:<translate> unformatted number</translate>|NOSEP}}

  • <translate> Simple:</translate>
    • {{formatnum:987654321.654321}}
      → 987,654,321.654321
    • {{formatnum:987,654,321.654321|R}}
      → 987654321.654321
  • <translate> Advanced:</translate>
    • {{formatnum:{{formatnum:987654321.654321}}|R}}
      → 987654321.654321 <translate> (on any locale)</translate>
    • {{formatnum:00001}}
      → 00,001
    • {{formatnum:987654321.654321 |NOSEP}}
      → 987654321.654321
    • <translate> Examples with বাংলা locale:</translate>
      • {{formatnum:987654321.654321}}
        → ৯৮,৭৬,৫৪,৩২১.৬৫৪৩২১
      • {{formatnum:987654321.654321 |NOSEP}}
        → ৯৮৭৬৫৪৩২১.৬৫৪৩২১
      • {{formatnum:৯৮,৭৬,৫৪,৩২১.৬৫৪৩২১ |R}}
        → 987654321.654321

<translate> Unsupported:</translate>
{{formatnum:{{formatnum:987.654.321}}}}
→ 987 654 321 <translate> (e.g. with Italian locale)</translate>

<translate> Examples of wrong input (unreliable output), with or without |R:</translate>
{{formatnum:987,654.321|R}} <translate> (the least broken)</translate>
{{formatnum:987.654,321|R}}
{{formatnum:987 654,321|R}}
{{formatnum:987&nbsp;654,321|R}}

<translate> Takes an unformatted number (Arabic, no group separators and . as decimal separator) and outputs it in the localized digit script and formatted with decimal and decimal group separators, according to the page language.</translate>

<translate> The <tvar name=1>|R</tvar> parameter can be used to reverse the behavior, for use in mathematical situations: it's reliable and should be used only to deformat numbers which are known to be formatted exactly as formatnum formats them with the wiki's locale.</translate>
<translate> The NOSEP ("no separators") parameter means that no group / decimal separators are changed; formatnum will only transform the digits themselves in languages which don't use the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. NOSEP can also prevent non-standard digit groupings you wouldn't expect.</translate>

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<translate> If you really need to format (according the wiki's locale) a number in unknown input format, you could try and use formatnum two times (but not if it can have a decimal group, or its separator will be eaten or the number won't be formatted). Be aware that this is more a hack than a regular way to proceed, thus the output may be not reliable. </translate>

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{{#dateformat:date}}
{{#formatdate:date}}
{{#dateformat:date|format}}
{{#formatdate:date|format}}

{{#dateformat:25 dec 2009|ymd}}
→ 2009 December 25 <translate> (your pref), 2009 December 25 (default)</translate>
{{#formatdate:dec 25,2009|dmy}}
→ 25 December 2009 <translate> (your pref), 25 December 2009 (default)</translate>
{{#dateformat:2009-12-25|mdy}}
→ December 25, 2009 <translate> (your pref), December 25, 2009 (default)</translate>
{{#formatdate:2009 dec 25|ISO 8601}}
→ 2009-12-25 <translate> (your pref), 2009-12-25 (default)</translate>
{{#dateformat:25 decEmber|mdy}}
→ December 25 <translate> (your pref), December 25 (default)</translate>
<translate> Note: In the examples above, "your pref" refers to your date preference on the current MediaWiki wiki only. </translate>

<translate> Formats an unlinked date based on user "date format" preference, and adds metadata tagging it as a formatted date. For logged-out users and those who have not set a date format in their preferences, dates can be given a default: mdy, dmy, ymd, ISO 8601 (all case sensitive). If only the month and day are given, only mdy and dmy are valid. If a format is not specified or is invalid, the input format is used as a default. If the supplied date is not recognized as a valid date (specifically, if it contains any metadata such as from a nested use of these or similar templates), it is rendered unchanged, and no (additional) metadata is generated.</translate>

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{{lc:string}}

{{lc:DATA CENTER}} → data center <translate> The lowercase input.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{lcfirst:string}}

{{lcfirst:DATA center}} → dATA center <translate> The input with the very first character lowercase.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{uc:string}}

{{uc:text transform}} → TEXT TRANSFORM <translate> The uppercase input.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{ucfirst:string}}

{{ucfirst:text tRAnSFORM}} → Text tRAnSFORM <translate> The input with the very first character uppercase.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{padleft:xyz|stringlength}}
{{padleft:xyz|strlen|char}}
{{padleft:xyz|strlen|string}}

{{padleft:xyz|5}} → 00xyz

{{padleft:xyz|5|_}} → __xyz
{{padleft:xyz|5|abc}} → abxyz
{{padleft:xyz|2}} → xyz
{{padleft:|1|xyz}} → x <translate> (first character of the string)</translate>

<translate> Inserts a string of padding characters (character chosen in third parameter; default "0") of a specified length (second parameter) next to a chosen base character or variable (first parameter).</translate> <translate> The final digits or characters in the base replace the final characters in the padding; i.e. <tvar name=1>{{padleft:44|3|0}}</tvar> produces <tvar name=2>044</tvar>.</translate> <translate> The padding string may be truncated if its length does not evenly divide the required number of characters.</translate>

<translate> Only the first character of the third parameter is used in versions up to 1.12, but by version 1.15, all the characters are used.

[[<tvar name=1>bugzilla:16852</tvar>|Bug]] (fixed in <tvar name=2>r45734</tvar>): multibyte characters are interpreted as two characters, which can skew width. These also cannot be used as padding characters.</translate>

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{{padright:xyz|stringlength}}
{{padright:xyz|strlen|char}}
{{padright:xyz|strlen|string}}

{{padright:xyz|5}} → xyz00

{{padright:xyz|5|_}} → xyz__
{{padright:xyz|5|abc}} → xyzab
{{padright:xyz|2}} → xyz
{{padright:|1|xyz}} → x

<translate> Identical to padleft but adds padding characters to the right side.</translate> Template:MW version
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{{bidi:string}}

{{bidi:text transform}} → ‪text transform‬

{{bidi:كتابة عربية}} → ‫كتابة عربية‬

Wraps the text in a script-appropriate directionality marker (either left-to-right (U+202A) or right-to-left (U+202B)) and a pop directionality formatting character (U+202C), to ensure directionality safety when using a mix of scripts in running text.

<translate> See also: <tvar name=ext-stringfunctions>Extension:StringFunctions </tvar>. </translate>

Script error: No such module "Loops". <translate>

Localization

Here are the magic words which are used as main localisation tools. Other magic words will often depend on the wiki's locale and configuration or on the chosen language: see in particular [[<tvar name=date>#Date and time</tvar>|#Date and time]], [[<tvar name=formatting>#Formatting</tvar>|#Formatting]], [[<tvar name=misc>#Miscellaneous</tvar>|#Miscellaneous]]. More magic words are added by the <tvar name=ext-translate>Extension:Translate </tvar>.

The usage of these magic words can be very complex, and the documentation is currently incomplete; there's some more info on PLURAL, GRAMMAR, GENDER.</translate>

<translate> Usage</translate> <translate> Input → Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Version</translate>

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{{PLURAL:2|is|are}} {{PLURAL:0|is|are}} → are
{{PLURAL:1*1|is|are}} → is
{{PLURAL:21 mod 10|is|are}} → are
{{PLURAL:{{#expr:21 mod 10}}|is|are}} → is
{{PLURAL:1|is|are}} → is
{{PLURAL:2|is|are}} → are
{{PLURAL:-1|is|are}} → is
{{PLURAL:-2|is|are}} → are
{{PLURAL:0.5|is|are}} → are
{{PLURAL:1.5|is|are}} → are
{{PLURAL:-0.5|is|are}} → are
{{PLURAL:-1.5|is|are}} → are
<translate> (For Russian)</translate>
{{PLURAL:5|1=Категория|Категории}}  → Категории


{{PLURAL:3|страница|страницы|страниц}} → страницы
{{PLURAL:5|страница|страницы|страниц}} → страниц

<translate> Outputs the singular form (second parameter) if the absolute value of the first parameter is an expression equalling one; the plural form (third parameter) otherwise. Its functioning is [[<tvar name=meta-help-magicwords>m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#Language-dependent_word_conversions</tvar>|language-dependent]].</translate>

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{{GRAMMAR:N|noun}} <translate> Outputs the correct inflected form of the given word described by the inflection code after the colon ([[<tvar name=meta-help-magicwords>m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#Language-dependent_word_conversions</tvar>|language-dependent]]). Grammar transformations are used for inflected languages like Polish. See also <tvar name=1>$wgGrammarForms </tvar>.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{GENDER:username|text for every gender}}

{{GENDER:Username|male text|female text|text for unspecified}}
{{GENDER:|male text|female text|text for unspecified}}
{{GENDER:.|male text|female text|text for unspecified}}

 <translate> (Depends on the named user's gender)</translate> <translate>

A switch for the gender set in Special:Preferences.
Note: The first example is basically a no-op
Note: If 3rd parameter is omitted and user hasn't defined their gender, then text if user is male is returned.
A blank username field (<tvar name=gender>{{GENDER:|</tvar>) means the current user, but can be used only in interface messages (MediaWiki namespace).
A dot username (.) means the default user gender on this wiki.</translate>

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{{int:<translate> message name</translate>}} {{int:edit}} → Edit
<translate> (Depends on user language; try: fr • ja)</translate> 		<translate>

Internationalizes (translates) the given interface (MediaWiki namespace) message into the user language. For msgnw and other transclusion magic words, see the [[<tvar name=sec>#Transclusion modifiers</tvar>|Transclusion modifiers]] section. Note that this can damage / confuse cache consistency in MediaWiki 1.17 and earlier, see T16404.</translate>

{{int:editsectionhint|MediaWiki}} {{int:editsectionhint|MediaWiki}} → Edit section: MediaWiki <translate> You may also use parameters with translations.
Parameters are designated in messages with: $1, $2, $3, etc.
For example, here is the message for editsectionhint: Edit section: $1
In this example, MediaWiki replaces $1.</translate>

<translate>

Transclusion modifiers

</translate> <translate> {{<tvar name=1>tmpl|0=Template:(($1|$2Template:))</tvar>|Page name|optional params}} usually transcludes another page, by default from the Template:namespace.</translate> <translate> These magic words modify that behavior.</translate>

<translate> Usage</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Version</translate>
{{:xyz}} <translate> A bare colon is not a template modifier but the prefix for the main namespace.</translate> <translate> Since transclusion defaults to the Template namespace, you would use for example, <tvar name=code1>Template:((:UTCTemplate:))</tvar> (vs. <tvar name=code2>Template:((UTCTemplate:))</tvar>) to include the text of the main namespace article UTC rather than Template:UTC.</translate>
{{int:xyz}} <translate> Same as <tvar name=mw>{{MediaWiki:xyz}}</tvar>, except standard message translation is applied depending on subpages and content/user/uselang language.</translate> <translate> Another difference is: this doesn't appear under "<tvar name=translatesused>Templates used on this page:</tvar>".</translate> <translate> Rendered as <tvar name=int>⧼xyz⧽</tvar> if <tvar name=mw>Template:Red link</tvar> doesn't exist.</translate> <translate> See also <tvar name=1>Help:System message </tvar>.</translate>

Template:Table-AnchorRow

{{msg:xyz}}
{{raw:xyz}} 		<translate> Even if there is a magic word named "xyz", use template:xyz unless the template doesn't exist (equivalent to <tvar name=code>{{template:xyz}}</tvar>).</translate> <translate> Normally, magic words have priority when there is a conflict.</translate>

Template:Table-AnchorRow

{{raw:xyz}} <translate> If <tvar name=1>$wgEnableScaryTranscluding </tvar> is enabled, and this is an interwiki transclusion, include the raw wikitext instead of the html from the foreign wiki.</translate> Template:MW version

Template:Table-AnchorRow

{{msgnw:xyz}} <translate> The unexpanded wikitext is rendered (more or less, for details see <tvar name=msgnw>Help:Templates#Usage </tvar>).</translate>

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{{subst:xyz}} <translate> In the wikitext, the tag is substituted by the content (single-level evaluation only), see <tvar name=1>Help:Templates#Usage </tvar>.</translate>

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{{safesubst:xyz}} <translate> See <tvar name=1>Help:Templates#Usage </tvar>.</translate>

<translate>

Miscellaneous

</translate>

<translate> Usage</translate> <translate> Input</translate> → <translate> Output</translate> <translate> Description</translate> <translate> Version</translate>

Template:Table-AnchorRow

{{#language:<translate> language code</translate>}}
{{#language:<translate> language code</translate>|<translate> target language code</translate>}} 		{{#language:ar}} → العربية
{{#language:ar|en}} → العربية 		<translate> The full name of the language for the given [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language#lang-code</tvar>|language code]]: native name (language autonym) by default, name translated in target language if a target language code is specified.</translate> <translate> <tvar name=1>Extension:CLDR </tvar> must be installed for the translation to work.</translate> Template:MW version
Template:MW version <translate> (translation)</translate>

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{{#special:<translate> special page name</translate>}} {{#special:userlogin}} → Special:UserLogin <translate> The localized name for the given canonical Special: page.</translate> Template:MW version

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{{#speciale:<translate> special page name</translate>}} {{#speciale:userlogin}} → Special:UserLogin <translate> The localized and URL-encoded name for the given canonical Special: page.</translate> Template:MW version

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Template:Tmpl <translate> Example for the [[<tvar name=ext-cite>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Cite</tvar>|Cite extension]]'s <tvar name=1><ref></tvar> tags:</translate>

{{#tag:ref|<translate nowrap> Citation on <tvar name=1>Magic words</tvar>.</translate> |name = "<translate nowrap> multiple</translate>"}} → <ref name="<translate nowrap> multiple</translate>"><translate> Citation on <tvar name=1>Magic words</tvar>.</translate> </ref>

<translate> Alias for XML-style MediaWiki parser tags or extension tags.</translate> <translate> It allows a [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Tag extensions#How do I render wikitext in my extension?</tvar>|pre-save transform of wiki code]] and <tvar name=2>Extension:ParserFunctions </tvar> within tags before the tag is processed.</translate> <translate> It also prevents parsing of tags in conditional paths that aren't executed (like in <tvar name=1>#if</tvar> statements).</translate> <translate> Content between tags is passed as the first parameter, and any attributes for the tags can be passed as subsequent parameters.</translate> <translate> This example:</translate>

<syntaxhighlight lang="html" style="display:none!important"></syntaxhighlight> Template:Tmpl

<translate> …can be rewritten like this: </translate>

Template:Tmpl

Template:Warning

Template:MW version

<translate> For parser function <tvar name=1>#invoke</tvar>, see w:Wikipedia:Lua#Running a module. </translate>


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