Help:Magic words
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.
05
CURRENTMONTHNAME
A variable.
May
CURRENTDAY
A variable.
29
CURRENTDAYNAME
A variable.
Thursday
CURRENTYEAR
A variable.
2025
CURRENTTIME
A variable.
14:43
NUMBEROFARTICLES
A variable.
7,000,861
CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN
A variable.
May
PAGENAME
A variable.
Magic words
PAGENAMEE
A variable.
Magic_words
NAMESPACE
A variable.
Help
MSG:
A template modifier. I.e. {{msg:stub}} shows
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 "May" 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.
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MSGNW:
A template modifier. Causes the template source to be pasted.
So
{{msgnw:stub}}outputs:
{{asbox | image = | pix = | subject = | article = article | qualifier = | category = Stubs | tempsort = no | lowercase = y | name = Template:Stub }}
__END__
Allows for trailing whitespace to be deliberately included in the page save.
thumbnail
An image modifier.
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.
framed
An image modifier. Can also be spelled enframed or frame.
INT:
A special template. Used for UI messages.
mainpage:
Main Page
SITENAME
A variable.
Wikipedia
NS:
A special template. Gets the name of a given namespace number.
4:
Wikipedia
LOCALURL:
A special template. Gets the local URL of the given page.
{{localurl:Help:Magic words|section=0}}
results into
/w/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}}
results into
/w/index.php?title=Help:Magic_words§ion=0
SERVER
A variable. {{SERVER}} produces //en.wikipedia.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.
22
CURRENTDOW
A variable.
4
Since v1.5
CURRENTMONTHABBREV
A variable, returns the abbreviation of the current month.
May
FULLURL:, FULLURLE:
Special templates, give the full URL of the given page.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page
REVISIONID
Gives you the article or diff database
-
SCRIPTPATH
Returns $wgScriptPath
/w
SERVERNAME
Returns $wgServerName
en.wikipedia.org
NUMBEROFFILES
Returns the number of uploaded files (rows in the image table).
937,630