Wikipedia:Comparable Lua functions to wikitext

This is a list of Lua functions and the wikitext parser functions and magic words that they are comparable to.

It is slightly out of date for what wikitext parser functions can do.

Magic words

Date and time

Wikicode	Lua
{{CURRENTYEAR}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'Y' ) or os.date( "%Y" )
{{CURRENTMONTH}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'm' ) or os.date( "%m" )
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'n' )
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'F' )
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'xg' )
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'M' )
{{CURRENTDAY}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'j' )
{{CURRENTDAY2}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'd' ) or os.date( "%d" )
{{CURRENTDOW}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'w' ) or os.date( "%w" )
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'l' )
{{CURRENTTIME}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'H:i' ) or os.date( "%R" )
{{CURRENTHOUR}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'H' ) or os.date( "%H" )
{{CURRENTWEEK}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'W' )
{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'YmdHis' )

Technical metadata

Wikicode	Lua
{{SITENAME}}	mw.site.siteName
{{SERVER}}	mw.site.server
{{SERVERNAME}}
{{DIRMARK}}	mw.language.getContentLanguage():getDirMark()
{{SCRIPTPATH}}	mw.site.scriptPath
{{STYLEPATH}}	mw.site.stylePath
{{CURRENTVERSION}}	mw.site.currentVersion
{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}	mw.getContentLanguage():getCode()
{{PAGEID}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().id
{{PAGESIZE:page name}}
{{PROTECTIONLEVEL:edit}}	[Expensive] local protection = mw.title.getCurrentTitle().protectionLevels["edit"] table.concat(protection)
{{REVISIONID}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
{{REVISIONYEAR}}
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
{{REVISIONUSER}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:title}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:sortkey}}

Statistics

Wikicode	Lua
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	mw.site.stats.pages
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	mw.site.stats.articles
{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	mw.site.stats.files
{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}	mw.site.stats.edits
{{NUMBEROFVIEWS}}	mw.site.stats.views
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}	mw.site.stats.users
{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}	mw.site.stats.admins
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}	mw.site.stats.activeUsers
[Expensive] {{PAGESINCATEGORY:categoryname}}	[Expensive] mw.site.stats.pagesInCategory( 'categoryname' )
{{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}}	mw.site.stats.usersInGroup( 'groupname' )

Page names

Wikicode	Lua
{{FULLPAGENAME}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().prefixedText
{{PAGENAME}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().text
{{BASEPAGENAME}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().baseText
{{SUBPAGENAME}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().subpageText
{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}	[Expensive] mw.title.getCurrentTitle().subjectPageTitle or an non expensive alternative: mw.title.getCurrentTitle().subjectNsText .. ":" .. mw.title.getCurrentTitle().text
{{TALKPAGENAME}}	[Expensive] mw.title.getCurrentTitle().talkPageTitle

Namespaces

Wikicode	Lua
{{NAMESPACE}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().nsText
{{NAMESPACENUMBER}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().namespace
{{SUBJECTSPACE}}	mw.title.getCurrentTitle().subjectNsText
{{TALKSPACE}}

URL data

Wikicode	Lua
{{localurl:page|query}}	mw.uri.localUrl( 'page', 'query' )
{{fullurl:page|query}}	mw.uri.fullUrl( 'page', 'query' )
{{canonicalurl:page|query}}	mw.uri.canonicalUrl( 'page', 'query' )
{{filepath:file name}}
{{urlencode:string|QUERY}}	mw.uri.encode( 'string', QUERY )
{{anchorencode:string}}	mw.uri.anchorEncode( 'string' )

Namespaces

Wikicode	Lua
{{ns:0}}	mw.site.namespaces[0].name
{{ns:Project}}	mw.site.namespaces.Project.name

Formatting

Wikicode	Lua
{{formatnum:number}}	mw.getContentLanguage():formatNum( number )
#dateformat
{{lc:string}}	mw.ustring.lower( 'string' )
{{lcfirst:string}}	mw.getContentLanguage():lcfirst( 'string' )
{{uc:string}}	mw.ustring.upper( 'string' )
{{ucfirst:string}}	mw.getContentLanguage():ucfirst( 'string' )
{{padleft:xyz|stringlength}}
{{padright:xyz|stringlength}}

Localisation

Wikicode	Lua
{{plural:2|is|are}}	mw.getContentLanguage():plural( 2, 'is', 'are' )
{{grammar:N|noun}}	mw.getContentLanguage():grammar( 'N', 'noun' )
{{gender:username|male|female|neutral }}	mw.getContentLanguage():gender( 'username', { 'male', 'female', 'neutral' } )
{{int:message}}	mw.message.new( 'message' ):plain()
{{int:editsectionhint|MediaWiki}}	mw.message.new( 'editsectionhint', 'MediaWiki' ):plain()

Miscellaneous

Wikicode	Lua
{{#language:code|inlanguage}}	mw.language.fetchLanguageName( 'code', 'inLanguage' )
{{#special:special page name}}
{{#speciale:special page name}}
{{#tag:tagname |some text |attribute1=value1 |attribute2=value2 }}	frame:extensionTag( 'tagname', 'some text', { attribute1 = 'value1', attribute2 = 'value2' } )