Editing Help:Magic Words (section)

===Technical metadata===
Revision variables return data about the '''latest edit to the current page''', even if viewing an older version of the page.
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! Variable
! Output
!Description

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|colspan="4"| '''Site'''
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| <tt><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{SITENAME}}
| The wiki's site name 

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| <tt><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{SERVER}}
| domain URL

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| <tt><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
| domain name

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| <tt><nowiki>{{DIRMARK}}</nowiki></tt><br /><tt><nowiki>{{DIRECTIONMARK}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{DIRMARK}}<br />{{DIRECTIONMARK}}
| Outputs a unicode-directional mark that matches the wiki's default language's direction (<code>&amp;lrm;</code> on left-to-right wikis, <code>&amp;rlm;</code> on right-to-left wikis), useful in text with multi-directional text.

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| <tt><nowiki>{{SCRIPTPATH}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{SCRIPTPATH}}
| relative script path

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| <tt><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
| The wiki's MediaWiki version.

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| <tt><nowiki>{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}
| The wiki's default interface language

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| colspan="4"| '''Latest revision to current page'''
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| <tt><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{REVISIONID}}
| Unique ID

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| <tt><nowiki>{{REVISIONDAY}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{REVISIONDAY}}
| Day edit was made (unpadded number)

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| <tt><nowiki>{{REVISIONDAY2}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
| Day edit was made (zero-padded number)

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| <tt><nowiki>{{REVISIONMONTH}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
| Month edit was made (unpadded number)

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| <tt><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
| Year edit was made

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| <tt><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
| Timestamp as of time of edit

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| <tt><nowiki>{{PAGESIZE:</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>
| {{PAGESIZE:Help:Magic_words}}
| Returns the byte size of the specified page.

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| <tt><nowiki>{{PROTECTIONLEVEL:</nowiki>''action''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>
| protection level
| Outputs the protection level (e.g. 'autoconfirm', 'sysop') for a given action (e.g. 'edit', 'move') on the current page or an empty string if not protected.

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| colspan="4"| '''Affects page content'''
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| <tt><nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE:</nowiki>''title''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>
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| Format the current page's title header. The value must be equivalent to the default title: only capitalization changes and replacing spaces with underscores.
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| <tt><nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT:</nowiki>''sortkey''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>
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| Used on a categorized page, sets a default.

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