Wiki:Magic Words

< Documentation

Magic Words look like template calls (surrounded by double curly braces) but most have no parameters and return a system variable value. Traditionally they are always typed in all-caps to make them easy to see in the template code, but they are actually case-insensitive.

**URL Magic**
Magic Word	Meaning	Example
{{PAGENAME}}	Returns the title of the current wiki page, without any leading namespace:	Magic Words
{{PAGENAMEE}}	Returns the url-encoded title of the current wiki page, without any leading namespace:	Magic_Words
{{PAGENAMENS}}	Returns the title of the current wiki page, without any leading namespace: or following (suffix)	Magic Words
{{NAMESPACE}}	Returns the url-encoded namespace portion of the current wiki page title (without the colon)	Wiki

About the following Magic Words:

If you are not a registered user or are not logged in, Time is given as UTC.
If you are logged in the timezone value in your profile is used to adjust the date/time to your local timezone.

**Date/Time Magic**
Magic Word	Meaning	Example
{{CURRENTTIME}}	Returns the current time	09:01
{{CURRENTHOUR}}	Returns the current hour	09
{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}	Returns the current date and time	202410160901
{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP2}}	Returns the current date and time in a prettier format	Wed Oct 16, 2024, 9:01:10 PM
{{CURRENTDAY}}	Returns the current day of the month	16
{{CURRENTDOW}}	Returns the current day of the week	Wed
{{CURRENTDOWNAME}}	Returns the name of the current day of the week	Wednesday
{{CURRENTDOY}}	Returns the current day of the year	290
{{CURRENTMONTH}}	Returns the number of the current month (zero-padded to 2 characters)	10
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	Returns the name of the current month	October
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	Returns the abbreviated name of the current month	Oct
{{CURRENTYEAR}}	Returns the current year	2024

	ZAM Network Wikibase™
	Wikibase Documentation

Categories: Wikibase Documentation | Help (ZAM) | ZAM Network

This page last modified 2011-02-22 13:48:47.