Help:Variables

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MediaWiki knows some defined variables which can be used in texts. They are rendered differently depending on the time, the site and the page. Their syntax is similar to templates. If you want a page to show always the current time, you use {{CURRENTTIME}}. To distinguish variables from templates, most variables are capitalized.

Description You type You get
Date & Wiki variables
Current month {{CURRENTMONTH}} 08
Current month {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} August
Genitive form
of current month name
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} August
Abbreviated month name {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} Aug
Day of the month {{CURRENTDAY}} 20
Day of the week {{CURRENTDOW}} 3
Day of the week {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} Wednesday
Week {{CURRENTWEEK}} 34
Year {{CURRENTYEAR}} 2008
current time {{CURRENTTIME}} 22:02
number of pages in this Wiki (total) {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} 1,040
numbers of articles in this Wiki {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} 623
numbers of uploaded files {{NUMBEROFFILES}} 160
Namespaces
{{ns:-2}} or {{ns:Media}} Media
{{ns:-1}} or {{ns:Special}} Special
{{ns:1}} or {{ns:Talk}} Talk
{{ns:2}} or {{ns:User}} User
{{ns:3}} or {{ns:User_talk}} User_talk
{{ns:4}} or {{ns:Project}} Milton_Keynes_RPG_Club
{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}} Milton_Keynes_RPG_Club_talk
{{ns:6}} or {{ns:Image}} Image
{{ns:7}} or {{ns:Image_talk}} Image_talk
{{ns:8}} or {{ns:MediaWiki}} MediaWiki
{{ns:9}} or {{ns:MediaWiki_talk}} MediaWiki_talk
{{ns:10}} or {{ns:Template}} Template
{{ns:11}} or {{ns:Template_talk}} Template_talk
{{ns:12}} or {{ns:Help}} Help
{{ns:13}} or {{ns:Help_talk}} Help_talk
{{ns:14}} or {{ns:Category}} Category
{{ns:15}} or {{ns:Category_talk}} Category_talk
Server specific
Sitename {{SITENAME}} Milton Keynes RPG Club
Servername {{SERVERNAME}} wiki.mk-rpg.org.uk
Server {{SERVER}} http://wiki.mk-rpg.org.uk
Script path {{SCRIPTPATH}} /mediawiki
Local part of the URL
{{localurl:pagename}} /Pagename
{{localurl:pagename|query string}} /mediawiki/index.php?title=Pagename&query string
Page related
Pagename {{PAGENAME}} Variables
Pagename
(URL encoded)
{{PAGENAMEE}} Variables
Namespace {{NAMESPACE}} Help
Revision ID {{REVISIONID}} 1535

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