Help:Magic Words

Magic words are strings of codes which associates with a return value or function, such as time, site details, or page names. This page is about usage of standard magic words.

Basically there are three types of magic words:

• Behavior Switches. These are uppercase words surrounded by double underscores (eg __FOO__)
• Variables. These are uppercase words surrounded by double braces (eg {{FOO}}).
• Parametric or Parser Functions. These take parameters and are either of the form {{foo:...}} or {{#foo:...}}.

Behaviour Switches

A behaviour switch controls the layout or behaviour of the page and can often be used to specify desired omissions and inclusions in the content.

Word	Description
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 beside the "edit" tab for adding a new section on a non-talk page.
__NONEWSECTIONLINK__	Removes the link beside the "edit" tab on pages in talk namespaces.
Categories
__NOGALLERY__	Used on a category page, replaces thumbnails in the category view with normal links.
__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).
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
__START__	No effect.
__END__	Explicitly marks the end of the article, to prevent MediaWiki from removing trailing whitespace.
__INDEX__	Tell search engines to index the page.
__NOINDEX__	Tell search engines not to index the page (ie, do not list in search engines' results).
__STATICREDIRECT__	On redirect pages, don't allow wiki to automatically update the link when someone moves a page and checks "Update any redirects that point to the original title".

Variables

Variables return information about the current page, wiki, or date. Their syntax is similar to templates. If a template name conflicts with a variable, the variable will be used (so to transclude the template Template:PAGENAME you would need to write {{Template:PAGENAME}}). In some cases, adding parameters will force the parser to treat a variable as a template; for example, {{CURRENTDAYNAME|x}} transcludes Template:CURRENTDAYNAME.

Date & time

The following variables return the current date and time according to the user's timezone , defaulting to the UTC timezone.

Variable	Output	Description
Year
{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2024	Year
Month
{{CURRENTMONTH}}	11	Month (zero-padded number)
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	November	Month (name)
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	November	Month
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	Nov	Month (abbreviation)
Template:Hl3 colspan="4"| Day
{{CURRENTDAY}}	22	Day of the month (unpadded number)
{{CURRENTDAY2}}	22	Day of the month (zero-padded number)
{{CURRENTDOW}}	5	Day of the week (unpadded number)
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Friday	Day of the week (name)
Time
{{CURRENTTIME}}	03:27	Time (24-hour HH:mm format)
{{CURRENTHOUR}}	03	Hour (24-hour zero-padded number)
Other
{{CURRENTWEEK}}	47	Week (number)
{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}	20241122032719	YYYYMMDDHHmmss timestamp

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}}
• {{LOCALMONTHNAMEGEN}}
• {{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
Site
{{SITENAME}}	Iskomunidad	The wiki's site name
{{SERVER}}	https://iskomunidad.upd.edu.ph	domain URL
{{SERVERNAME}}	iskomunidad.upd.edu.ph	domain name
{{DIRMARK}} {{DIRECTIONMARK}}	‎ ‎	Outputs a unicode-directional mark that matches the wiki's default language's direction (‎ on left-to-right wikis, ‏ on right-to-left wikis), useful in text with multi-directional text.
{{SCRIPTPATH}}		relative script path (Template:Mediawiki)
{{CURRENTVERSION}}	1.42.3	The wiki's MediaWiki version.
{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}	en	The wiki's default interface language
Latest revision to current page
{{REVISIONID}}	2625	Unique ID
{{REVISIONDAY}}	3	Day edit was made (unpadded number)
{{REVISIONDAY2}}	03	Day edit was made (zero-padded number)
{{REVISIONMONTH}}	03	Month edit was made (unpadded number)
{{REVISIONYEAR}}	2009	Year edit was made
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}	20090303191415	Timestamp as of time of edit
{{PAGESIZE:page name}}	0	Returns the byte size of the specified page.
{{PROTECTIONLEVEL:action}}	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.
Affects page content
{{DISPLAYTITLE:title}}		Format the current page's title header. The value must be equivalent to the default title: only capitalization changes and replacing spaces with underscores. It can be disabled or enabled by Template:Mediawiki; disabled by default before 1.10+, enabled by default thereafter.
{{DEFAULTSORT:sortkey}}		Used on a categorized page, sets a default category sort key.

Statistics

Numbers returned by these variables normally contain separators (commas or spaces, depending on the local language), but can return raw numbers with the ":R" flag (for example, {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} → 22,801 and {{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}} → 22801). Use "|R" for magic words that require a parameter like PAGESINCATEGORY (for example {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help}} and {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|R}}).

Variable	Output	Description
Entire wiki
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	22,801	Number of wiki pages.
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	3,711	Number of pages in main namespace.
{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	14,954	Number of uploaded files.
{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}	70,444	Number of page edits.
{{NUMBEROFVIEWS}}	60,267,808	Number of page views. Usually useless on a wiki using caching.
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}	5,923	Number of registered users.
{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}	12	Number of users in the sysop.
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}	6	Number of active users.
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:categoryname}} {{PAGESINCAT:Help}}	1 1	Number of pages in the given category (replace "Help" with the relevant category name).
{{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}}	7 ({{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}} used here)	Number of users in a specific.
{{PAGESINNS:index}} {{PAGESINNAMESPACE:index}}	not enabled	Number of pages in the given namespace (replace 2 with the relevant namespace index). E.g. {{PAGESINNAMESPACE:14}} equals the number of categories..

Page names

Variable	Output	Description
{{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").
{{SUBPAGENAME}}	Magic Words	The subpage title ("foo" on "Title/foo").
{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}	Help:Magic Words	The namespace and title of the associated content page.
{{TALKPAGENAME}}	Help talk:Magic Words	The namespace and title of the associated talk page.

The following are URL-encoded equivalents:

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

Namespaces

Variable	Output	Description
{{NAMESPACE}}	Help	Namespace (name)
{{SUBJECTSPACE}} {{ARTICLESPACE}}	Help 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}}