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}}	04
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	April
Genitive form of current month name	{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	April
Abbreviated month name	{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	Apr
Day of the month	{{CURRENTDAY}}	27
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDOW}}	6
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Saturday
Week	{{CURRENTWEEK}}	17
Year	{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2024
current time	{{CURRENTTIME}}	15:00
numbers of articles in this Wiki	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	1,124
numbers of uploaded files	{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	851
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}}	AtariForumWiki
	{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}}	AtariForumWiki talk
	{{ns:6}} or {{ns:Image}}	File
	{{ns:7}} or {{ns:Image_talk}}	File 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}}	AtariForumWiki
Servername	{{SERVERNAME}}	www.temlib.org
Server	{{SERVER}}	https://www.temlib.org
Script path	{{SCRIPTPATH}}	/AtariForumWiki
Local part of the URL	{{localurl:pagename}}	/AtariForumWiki/index.php/Pagename
	{{localurl:pagename|query string}}	/AtariForumWiki/index.php?title=Pagename&query string
Page related
Pagename	{{PAGENAME}}	Variables
Pagename (URL encoded)	{{PAGENAMEE}}	Variables
Namespace	{{NAMESPACE}}	Help
Revision ID	{{REVISIONID}}	21840

External links

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MetaWiki: Help:Variable