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. See also compact TOC
__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.
02
CURRENTMONTHNAME
A variable.
February
CURRENTDAY
A variable.
13
CURRENTDAYNAME
A variable.
Thursday
CURRENTYEAR
A variable.
2025
CURRENTTIME
A variable.
{{CURRENTTIME}}=20:19
NUMBEROFARTICLES
A variable.
2,477
CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN
A variable.
February
PAGENAME
A variable.
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 "February" 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.
right
An image modifier.
left
An image modifier.
none
An image modifier.
1px
An image modifier.
center
An image modifier. Can also be spelled centre.
Template:Clearframed
An image modifier. Can also be spelled enframed or frame.
INT:
A special template. Used for UI messages.
mainpage:
Main Page
SITENAME
A variable.
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).
7
CURRENTDOW
A variable, returning the number of the current day of the week (0=Sunday, 1=Monday).
4
Since v1.5
CURRENTMONTHABBREV
A variable that returns the abbreviation of the current month.
Feb
FULLURL:, FULLURLE:
Special templates that give the full URL of the given page.
http://thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Page
REVISIONID
Gives you the article or diff database
6986
SCRIPTPATH
Returns $wgScriptPath
/wiki
SERVERNAME
Returns $wgServerName
thegiant.org
NUMBEROFFILES
Returns the number of uploaded files (rows in the image table).
3,941