Help:Variables

See also: Help:Contents and Help:Reference guide#Magic Words

Variables return information about the current page, wiki, or date. Their syntax is similar to templates.

Technical metadata

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

Variable	Output	Description
Site
{{SITENAME}}	Nottinghack Wiki	The wiki's site name.
{{SERVER}}	https://wiki.nottinghack.org.uk	Domain URL.
{{SERVERNAME}}	wiki.nottinghack.org.uk	Domain name.
{{SCRIPTPATH}}		Relative path to the wiki scripts on the server.
{{STYLEPATH}}	/skins	Relative path to the wiki style sheet on the server.
{{CURRENTVERSION}}	1.42.1	The wiki's MediaWiki version.
Latest revision to current page
{{REVISIONID}}	20621	Unique revision ID
{{REVISIONDAY}}	28	Day the edit was made (unpadded number)
{{REVISIONMONTH}}	03	Month the edit was made
{{REVISIONYEAR}}	2019	Year the edit was made
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}	20190328160317	Timestamp of the edit
{{REVISIONUSER}}	Jon	The user who made the most recent edit to the page, or the current user when previewing an edit
{{PROTECTIONLEVEL:action}}	protection level	The protection level (e.g. 'autoconfirm', 'sysop') for a given action (e.g. 'edit', 'move') on the current page or an empty string if not protected.
Affects page content
{{DISPLAYTITLE:title}}		Format the current page's title. The value must be equivalent to the default title: only capitalization changes and replacing spaces with underscores are allowed.
{{DEFAULTSORT:sortkey}} {{DEFAULTSORTKEY:sortkey}} {{DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT:sortkey}}		Used for categorizing pages, sets a default category sort key. For example if you put {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John}} at the end of John Smith, the page would be sorted under "S" by default in categories.

Statistics

Numbers returned by these variables normally contain separators (commas or spaces, depending on the local language), but can return raw numbers with the ":R" flag (for example, {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} → 5,467 and {{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}} → 5467). Use "|R" for magic words that require a parameter like PAGESINCATEGORY (for example {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help}} and {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|R}}). Also applicable to {{PAGESIZE:page name}} above.

Variable	Output	Description
Entire wiki
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	5,467	Number of wiki pages.
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	973	Number of pages in content namespaces.
{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	2,653	Number of uploaded files.
{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}	28,876	Number of page edits.
{{NUMBEROFVIEWS}}	Template:NUMBEROFVIEWS	Number of page views. Usually useless on a wiki using caching.
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}	354	Number of registered users.
{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}	19	Number of users in the sysop admin group.
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}	21	Number of active users, based on the criteria used in Special:Statistics.
{{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}} {{NUMINGROUP:groupname}}		Number of users in a specific group.

Page name variables

Variable	Output	Description
{{FULLPAGENAME}}	Help:Variables	Namespace and page title.
{{PAGENAME}}	Variables	Page title.
{{BASEPAGENAME}}	Variables	Page title excluding the current subpage and namespace. For more complex splitting, use {{#titleparts:}}.
{{SUBPAGENAME}}	Variables	The subpage title.
{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}	Help:Variables	The namespace and title of the associated content page.
{{TALKPAGENAME}}	Help talk:Variables	The namespace and title of the associated talk page.

The following are equivalents encoded for use in MediaWiki URLs (i.e. spaces replaced with underscores and some characters percent-encoded):

• {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
• {{PAGENAMEE}}
• {{BASEPAGENAMEE}}
• {{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
• {{SUBJECTPAGENAMEE}}
• {{TALKPAGENAMEE}}

These can all take a parameter allowing specification of the page to be operated on, instead of just the current page:

• {{PAGENAME:Template:Main Page}} → Main Page

Namespace variables

Variable	Output	Description
{{NAMESPACE}}	Help	Name of the page's namespace
{{SUBJECTSPACE}} {{ARTICLESPACE}}	Help Help	Name of the associated content namespace
{{TALKSPACE}}	Help talk	Name of the associated talk namespace

The following are equivalents encoded for use in MediaWiki URLs (spaces replaced with underscores and some characters percent-encoded):

• {{NAMESPACEE}}
• {{SUBJECTSPACEE}}
• {{TALKSPACEE}}

These can take a page name instead of operating on the current page:

• {{NAMESPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
• {{SUBJECTSPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
• {{TALKSPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template talk