Extension:PageMagic

This extension is professionally maintained by the WikiTeq team.
WikiTeq provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.
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PageMagic
Release status: stable
Description The extension adds a few parser functions to retrieve page id by name and vice versa.
Author(s) Vedmaka (vedmakatalk)
Maintainer(s) WikiTeq team
Compatibility policy For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.
MediaWiki 1.31+
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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The PageMagic extension adds a few parser functions to retrieve page id by name and vice versa.

This extension was created for WikiWorks.

Installation

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  • Download and move the extracted PageMagic folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/PageMagic
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'PageMagic' );
    
  •   Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Usage

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The following magic words are introduced:

  • FULLPAGENAMEFROMID - converts provided page id into a full page name
  • PAGEIDFROMREVISIONID - converts provided revision id into a page id
  • FULLPAGENAMEFROMREVISIONID - converts provided revision id into a full page name

Examples:

{{FULLPAGENAMEFROMID:12345}} -> Namespace:Pagename
{{PAGEIDFROMREVISIONID:3456}} -> 12345
{{FULLPAGENAMEFROMREVISIONID:3456}} -> Namespace:Pagename

Also, see the README