Help:Magic words
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This is an index of Magic words used in MediaWiki.
#redirect
Indicates a redirect
__NOTOC__
Hides the table of contents.
__FORCETOC__
Always show the table of contents.
__TOC__
Place the table of contents here.
__NOEDITSECTION__
Hide the edit links.
__START__
__START__ does nothing, and it is considered a magic word only because it has an ID in MagicWord.php (MAG_START).
CURRENTMONTH
A variable.
12
CURRENTMONTHNAME
A variable.
December
CURRENTDAY
A variable.
22
CURRENTDAYNAME
A variable.
Sunday
CURRENTYEAR
A variable.
2024
CURRENTTIME
A variable.
{{CURRENTTIME}}=16:19
NUMBEROFARTICLES
A variable.
2,478
CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN
A variable.
December
PAGENAME
A variable.
{{PAGENAME}} = Magic words
PAGENAMEE
A variable.
This Page= Magic_words
NAMESPACE
A variable.
This Page = Help
MSG:
A template modifier, i.e. {{msg:stub}} shows
{{Stub}}
The use of msg has an effect when a template name clashes with a magic word. For example, if [[Template:CURRENTMONTHNAME]] contained "Test", then {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} would display "December" but {{msg:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} would display "Test".
SUBST:
A template modifier. Replaces the reference to the template (e.g. {{subst:template}}) with the content of the template.
e.g. {{subst:stub}} copies the {{stub}} contents below to the article, without using the template.
This article is a stub. You can help Wikimedia by expanding it.
SUSBT: can be helpful to avoid the overuse of meta-templates.
MSGNW:
A template modifier. Causes the template source to be pasted.
So <pre>{{msgnw:stub}}</pre> outputs:
{{msgnw:stub}}
__END__
Allows for trailing whitespace to be deliberately included in the page save.
thumbnail
An image modifier. 'Thumb' has the same effect.
[[Image:ImageName.jpg|thumbnail|Mediawiki]]
right
An image modifier.
[[Image:ImageName.jpg|right|Mediawiki]]
left
An image modifier.
[[Image:Mediawiki.png|left|Mediawiki]]
none
An image modifier.
[[Image:Mediawiki.png|none|Mediawiki]]
1px
An image modifier.
[[Image:Mediawiki.png|142px|Mediawiki]]
center
An image modifier. Can also be spelled centre.
[[Image:Mediawiki.png|center|Mediawiki]]
framed
An image modifier. Can also be spelled enframed or frame.
[[Image:Mediawiki.png|framed|Mediawiki]]
INT:
A special template. Used for UI messages.
mainpage:
Main Page
SITENAME
A variable.
{{SITENAME}} = The Giant: The Definitive Obey Giant Site
NS:
A special template. Gets the name of a given namespace number.
4:
The Giant: The Definitive Obey Giant Site
LOCALURL:
A special template. Gets the local URL of the given page.
{{localurl:Help:Magic words|section=0}}
yields
/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Magic_words§ion=0
LOCALURLE:
A special template. Gets the local URL of the given page.
{{localurle:Help:Magic words|section=0}}
yields
/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Magic_words§ion=0
SERVER
A variable. {{SERVER}} produces http://thegiant.org
GRAMMAR:
Useful for inflected languages to derive word forms. Usage: {{grammar:case|word}}, cases in which this could be used depend on the specific language.
E. g. in Czech language, {{grammar:1sg|Wikipedie}} outputs Wikipedie, while {{grammar:7sg|Wikipedie}} outputs Wikipedií.
__NOTITLECONVERT__
? Can also be spelled __NOTC__.
Same as below but Article Title only.
__NOCONTENTCONVERT__
? Can also be spelled __NOCC__.
Don't perform the content language(character & phase) conversion in article display.(eg, Chinese zh with zh_cn, zh_tw, zh_sg, zh_hk)
CURRENTWEEK
A variable, returning the number of the current week (1-52).
51
CURRENTDOW
A variable, returning the number of the current day of the week (0=Sunday, 1=Monday).
0
Since v1.5
CURRENTMONTHABBREV
A variable that returns the abbreviation of the current month.
Dec
FULLURL:, FULLURLE:
Special templates that give the full URL of the given page.
{{FULLURL:page}}
REVISIONID
Gives you the article or diff database
7698
SCRIPTPATH
Returns $wgScriptPath
/wiki
SERVERNAME
Returns $wgServerName
thegiant.org
NUMBEROFFILES
Returns the number of uploaded files (rows in the image table).
3,941