Help:Variables

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Variables 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}} 29
Day of the week {{CURRENTDOW}} 5
Day of the week {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} Friday
Week {{CURRENTWEEK}} 35
Year {{CURRENTYEAR}} 2008
current time {{CURRENTTIME}} 17:18
numbers of articles in this Wiki {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} 336
numbers of uploaded files {{NUMBEROFFILES}} 272
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}} Stargate_Worlds_Wiki_(SGW)
{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}} Stargate_Worlds_Wiki_(SGW)_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}} Stargate Worlds Wiki (SGW)
Servername {{SERVERNAME}} www.stargateworldswiki.com
Server {{SERVER}} http://www.stargateworldswiki.com
Script path {{SCRIPTPATH}}
Local part of the URL
{{localurl:pagename}} /wiki/Pagename
{{localurl:pagename|query string}} /index.php?title=Pagename&query string
Page related
Pagename {{PAGENAME}} Variables
Pagename
(URL encoded)
{{PAGENAMEE}} Variables
Namespace {{NAMESPACE}} Help
Revision ID {{REVISIONID}} 6937
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