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MediaWiki variables are strings of text that output as information such as time, site details, or page names.

Contents 1 Parsing 2 Variables 2.1 Date & time 2.2 Statistics and technical details 2.2.1 Site 2.2.2 Latest revision to a page 2.3 URL data 2.3.1 URLs 2.3.2 Page names 2.3.3 Namespaces 3 Custom variables 4 External links 5 Page Is Unavailable Due To Site Maintenance, Please Visit Reserve Copy Page 6 CLICK HERE 6.1 Syntax 6.2 Usage 6.3 Supported languages 6.4 Example

Parsing

The syntax of most variables is similar to templates, but capitalized to help avoid conflicts. If a template has the same name and case as a variable, the variable will be used. Usage of the template can be forced by adding the "msg:" modifier (for example, "{{msg:CURRENTYEAR}}").

Page-dependent variables will return data about the currently-viewed page, regardless of whether the variable is in the page code or a transcluded template.

Variables

Date & time

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

Due to MediaWiki and browser caching, these variables frequently show when the page was cached rather than the current time.

Variable	Output	Description
Year
{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2012	Year
Month
{{CURRENTMONTH}}	05	Month (zero-padded number)
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	May	Month (name)
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	May	Month (genitive form)
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	May	Month (abbreviation)
Day
{{CURRENTDAY}}	17	Day of the month (unpadded number)
{{CURRENTDAY2}}	17	Day of the month (zero-padded number)
{{CURRENTDOW}}	4	Day of the week (unpadded number)
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Thursday	Day of the week (name)
Time
{{CURRENTTIME}}	12:22	Time (24-hour HH:mm format)
{{CURRENTHOUR}}	12	Hour (24-hour zero-padded number)
Other
{{CURRENTWEEK}}	20	Week (number)
{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}	20120517122253	ISO 8601 time stamp

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}}
• {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
• {{LOCALDAY}}
• {{LOCALDAY2}}
• {{LOCALDOW}}
• {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
• {{LOCALTIME}}
• {{LOCALHOUR}}
• {{LOCALWEEK}}
• {{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}

Statistics and technical details

Site

Variable	Output	Description
{{SITENAME}}	STIQ	Name of the wiki ($wgSitename)
{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}	en	Default interface language ($wgLanguageCode)
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	684	Number of wiki pages
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	191	Number of pages in main namespace
{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	61	Number of uploaded files

Latest revision to a page

The following variables return data about the latest edit to the current page, even if viewing an older version of the page.

Variable	Output	Description
{{REVISIONID}}	3624	Unique ID
{{REVISIONDAY}}	30	Day edit was made (unpadded number)
{{REVISIONDAY2}}	30	Day edit was made (zero-padded number)
{{REVISIONMONTH}}	11	Month edit was made (unpadded number)
{{REVISIONYEAR}}	2007	Year edit was made
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}	20071130182818	Timestamp as of time of edit

URL data

URLs

Variable	Output	Description
{{SERVER}}	http://storytestiq.solutionsiq.com	domain URL ($wgServer)
{{SERVERNAME}}	storytestiq.solutionsiq.com	domain name ($wgServerName)
{{SCRIPTPATH}}	/w	relative script path ($wgScriptPath)
{{localurl:pagename}} {{localurl:pagename|query string}}	/wiki/Pagename /w/index.php?title=Pagename&query string	relative path to title

Page names

Variable	Output	Description
{{FULLPAGENAME}}	Help:Variables	Namespace and page title
{{BASEPAGENAME}}	Variables	The namespace and page title excluding the current subpage ("Title" on "Title/foo")
{{PAGENAME}}	Variables	Page title
{{SUBPAGENAME}}	Variables	The subpage title ("foo" on "Title/foo")
{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}	Help:Variables	The title of the associated content page.
{{TALKPAGENAME}}	Help talk:Variables	The 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}}	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}}

{{ns:}} returns the localized namespace name for that number of constant. The default values are:

Usage	Output
{{ns:-2}} or {{ns:Media}}	Media
{{ns:-1}} or {{ns:Special}}	Special
{{ns:0}} or {{ns:Main}}
{{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}}	STIQ
{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}}	STIQ_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

Custom variables

MediaWiki also supports custom variables defined as part of extensions or specific to a particular installation. For example, some installations might find it helpful to have a variable that identifies the name of the sponsoring organization or the portion of the wiki URL that precedes the title if it is liable to change or more complex than http://{{SERVERNAME}}.

For more information, please see Manual:Variables.

External links

MetaWiki: Help:Variable

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Syntax

{{{Languages|PageName}}}

• PageName (optional) - the name of the page to display language links for. If omitted then the English version of the current page is used. This parameter can normally be omitted, as it is only required if you want to link to a page other than the one you place the template on, which is very uncommon. If this parameter is used on a sub-page make sure you supply the root name, not the full page name (e.g. on MediaWiki/fr you would need to use {{{Languages|MediaWiki}}} and not {{{Languages|MediaWiki/fr}}}).

Usage

The template should only be placed on pages that exist in more than one language, and it should be placed in the same location on each translation of the page.

The English version of a page is always the main version, with all other languages as sub-pages, named using the appropriate language code (see below).

For example, on the Main Page you would include the text {{{Languages}}}, both on Main Page itself, and on each of its language sub-pages. The template automatically creates links to any language sub-pages that exist, e.g. Main Page/ja<tt>, <tt>Main Page/fr, and ignores non-existant languages.

See Project:Language policy for further details about translating pages.

Supported languages

This shows you the name of each language's sub-page (using Main Page as an example). Other languages may be added easily as necessary. Please use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language. Please do not add languages for which no pages exist yet, as this will increase the time needed to include the template without adding any benefit (languages are only displayed to the user when the relevant page exists).

The link on the language names goes to the Wikipedia in that language. If no Wikipedia in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to MediaWiki.org! This wiki is not the place for language advocacy - please go through the correct channels, and once your language has a Wikipedia then please return to add content here.

Page Name	Language
Main Page	English
Main Page/ar	Arabic
Main Page/br	Breton
Main Page/ca	Catalan
Main Page/cs	Czech
Main Page/de	German
Main Page/el	Greek
Main Page/es	Spanish
Main Page/fa	Persian
Main Page/fi	Finnish
Main Page/fr	French
Main Page/he	Hebrew
Main Page/hu	Hungarian
Main Page/id	Indonesian
Main Page/it	Italian
Main Page/ja	Japanese
Main Page/ko	Korean
Main Page/mr	Marathi
Main Page/nl	Nederlands
Main Page/no	Norwegian
Main Page/oc	Occitan
Main Page/pl	Polish
Main Page/pt	Portugese
Main Page/ro	Romanian
Main Page/ru	Russian
Main Page/sq	Albanian
Main Page/sr	Serbian
Main Page/sv	Swedish
Main Page/th	Thai
Main Page/vi	Vietnamese
Main Page/yue	Cantonese
Main Page/zh	Chinese
Main Page/zh-hans	Chinese (Simplified)
Main Page/zh-hant	Chinese (Traditional)

Example

Here is how the language bar looks on the MediaWiki page: Languages