Returns the title of the translation page (the page other languages are translated from) if a page is translatable (including translated pages), and nothing if the page is not translatable.
<translate><!--T:1--> Translated unit. Language: <tvarname=lang>{{TRANSLATIONLANGUAGE}}</tvar>.</translate>
<translate><!--T:2--> Untranslated unit. Language: <tvarname=lang>{{TRANSLATIONLANGUAGE}}</tvar>.</translate>
Translated unit. Language: en.
Not translated unit. Language: en.
Must be used in a translated page, inside <translate> tags.Returns the language code of the current translation unit.In a translation page, if the unit has been translated, then it returns translation language.Else, it returns source language.The language code that this variable returns can be converted to a language name using {{#language:...}}.Should only be used by translation admins.
Outputs the protection level (e.g. "autoconfirmed", "sysop") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the current page. Returns an empty string if not protected.
Outputs the protection expiry (e.g. "20160418155030", "infinity") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the current page.Returns "infinity" if not protected.
[Expensive]Returns the sources of any cascading protection acting on the current page. Pages will not return their own title unless they transclude themselves.
Viewed revision of current page (latest revision or selected older revision)
{{REVISIONID}}
-
Unique revision ID.It is always empty in preview, thus one can show an error message only in preview.May be disabled in miser mode (all WMF wikis) returning - instead when not in preview.
≥ 1.5
{{REVISIONDAY}}
17
Day edit was made (unpadded number).
≥ 1.8
{{REVISIONDAY2}}
17
Day edit was made (zero-padded number).
≥ 1.8
{{REVISIONMONTH}}
03
Month edit was made (zero-padded number as of 1.17+, unpadded number in prior versions).
Format the display title of the current page, which is what is typically shown in a page's title header.Unless $wgRestrictDisplayTitle is set to false, the value must be equivalent to the default title: only capitalization changes to certain parts of the title (not all) and replacing spaces with underscores are allowed.It can be disabled or enabled by $wgAllowDisplayTitle.
It can take a second argument of noerror or noreplace to suppress error messages when multiple displaytitles are used on one page or to make this displaytitle do nothing if a displaytitle was already specified earlier in the page.
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.It can take a second argument of noerror or noreplace to suppress error messages when multiple defaultsortkeys are used on one page or to make this defaultsort do nothing if a defaultsort was already specified earlier in the page.
Numbers returned by these variables normally contain separators (commas, dots or spaces, depending on the local language) but can return raw numbers with the ":R" flag (for example, {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} → 1,658,480 and {{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}} → 1658480).
Use "|R" for magic words that require a parameter like PAGESINCATEGORY (for example {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help}} and {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|R}}, or {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|subcats}} and {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|subcats|R}}).Also applicable to {{PAGESIZE:page name}} hereinbefore.
The number magic words are formatted in the wiki content language. Since 1.19, it depends on the page content language.
[Expensive]Number of pages in the given namespace (replace index with the relevant namespace index).For instance, {{PAGESINNAMESPACE:14}} will output the number of category pages. {{PAGESINNS:0}} differs from {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} in that the former includes redirects and disambiguation pages.Disabled by default, enable with $wgAllowSlowParserFunctions.
≥ 1.7
Page names
Variable
For current page
Description
Versions
{{FULLPAGENAME}}
Help:Magic words/th
Namespace and full page title (including all subpage levels).
≥ 1.6
{{PAGENAME}}
Magic words/th
Full page title (including all subpage levels) without the namespace.
{{BASEPAGENAME}}
Magic words
Page title of the page in the immediately superior subpage level without the namespace.Would return Title/Foo on page Help:Title/Foo/Bar.
≥ 1.7
{{ROOTPAGENAME}}
Magic words
Name of the root of the current page.Would return Title on page Help:Title/Foo/Bar.
≥ 1.22
{{SUBPAGENAME}}
th
The subpage title.Would return Bar on page Help:Title/Foo/Bar.
If no subpage exists the value of {{PAGENAME}} is returned.
Full page name of the associated subject (e.g. article or file). Useful on talk pages.
≥ 1.7
{{TALKPAGENAME}}
Help talk:Magic words/th
Full page name of the associated talk page.
≥ 1.7
None of these are affected by changes to the display title using {{DISPLAYTITLE:xxxx}}; the values returned are the original page title.
The {{BASEPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAME}} magic words only work in namespaces that have subpages enabled. See $wgNamespacesWithSubpages for information on enabling subpages.
As of 1.15+, 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
Warning:
If the page title contains any parts that are "." or "..", the magic word returns nothing.
{{PAGENAME:one/./three}} → Nothing is returned.
Warning:
Page titles containing certain characters, such as apostrophes ' or asterisks *, may produce unexpected results when handled with these magic words, e.g. {{PAGESINCATEGORY:{{PAGENAME}}}}. See bugs T16779, T18474, T37628, T37746. One simple way to fix this is wrapping the pagename in {{#titleparts:}} from the ParserFunctions extension.
The following are equivalents encoded for use in MediaWiki URLs (spaces replaced with underscores and some characters percent-encoded):
{{NAMESPACEE}}
{{SUBJECTSPACEE}}
{{ARTICLESPACEE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
As of 1.15+, these can take a full-page-name parameter and will return the requested namespace associated with that page, instead of with the current page:
{{NAMESPACENUMBER:MediaWiki}} → 0
{{NAMESPACE:MediaWiki}} → (Pages in main space will return empty)
{{NAMESPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
{{SUBJECTSPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
{{ARTICLESPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template
{{TALKSPACE:Template:Main Page}} → Template talk
Parameter must not be a namespace name:
{{SUBJECTSPACE:Help talk}} → (Empty)
Other
Variable
Output
Description
Versions
{{!}}
|
Used to include a pipe character as part of a template argument or table cell contents. Before this was added as a magic word, many wikis implemented this by creating Template:! with | as the content.
Used to include an equal sign as part of a template argument or table cell contents.Before this was added as a magic word, many wikis implemented this by creating Template:= with = as the content.
Parser functions are very similar to variables but take one or more parameters (technically, any magic word that takes a parameter is a parser function), and the name is sometimes prefixed with a hash to distinguish them from templates.
This page only describes parser functions that are integral to the MediaWiki software. Other parser functions may be added by MediaWiki extensions such as the Extension:ParserFunctions. For those see วิธีใช้:ส่วนขยาย:ParserFunctions.
[Expensive]Outputs the protection level (e.g. "autoconfirmed", "sysop") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the specified page. Returns an empty string if not protected.
[Expensive]Outputs the protection expiry (e.g. "20160418155030", "infinity") for a given action (e.g. "edit", "move") on the specified page.Returns "infinity" if not protected.
[Expensive]Returns the sources of any cascading protection acting on the specified page. Pages will not return their own title unless they transclude themselves.
When the given param is equal to the current title of the parser, the parser function will yield the previous versions on preview and on substitution, that includes empty strings when used on page creation but using the values from the current version for page view, including viewing old revisions. In this case it is a non-expensive parser function.
URL data
Parser function
Input → Output
Description
Versions
{{localurl:page name}} {{localurl:page name |query_string}}
A protocol-relative path to the title, which depends on the $wgServer configuration setting for the local wiki (and so may or may not start with http(s)://). This will also resolve interwiki prefixes. Note: Unbracketed (plain) protocol-relative links are not automagically linked.
≥ 1.5
{{canonicalurl:page name}} {{canonicalurl:page name |query_string}} {{canonicalurl:interwiki:remote page name |query_string}}
{{urlencode:x:y/z á é}}or {{urlencode:x:y/z á é|QUERY}} → x%3Ay%2Fz+%C3%A1+%C3%A9 {{urlencode:x:y/z á é|WIKI}} → x:y/z_%C3%A1_%C3%A9 {{urlencode:x:y/z á é|PATH}} → x%3Ay%2Fz%20%C3%A1%20%C3%A9
Note that the default changed from |WIKI to |QUERY in 1.17; this may break templates that rely on this function.
The input encoded for use in URLs. Note that there is no urldecode function like there is in the obsolete Extension:StringFunctions
{{ns:}} returns the current localized name for the namespace with that index, canonical name, or local alias.Thus {{ns:6}}, {{ns:File}}, and {{ns:Image}} (an old name for the File namespace) all return "File".On a wiki where the content language is French, {{ns:Fichier}} is also valid, but {{ns:Datei}} (the localisation of "File" in German) is not.
The main namespace has no name, i.e. {{ns:0}} returns an empty string.For explicitly referring to the main namespace, {{int:Blanknamespace}} can be used, resulting in "(หลัก)".
{{nse:}} is the equivalent encoded for MediaWiki URLs. It does the same, but it replaces spaces with underscores, making it usable in external links.
Unsupported: {{formatnum:{{formatnum:987.654.321}}}} → 987 654 321 (e.g. with Italian locale)
Examples of wrong input (unreliable output), with or without |R: {{formatnum:987,654.321|R}}(the least broken) {{formatnum:987.654,321|R}} {{formatnum:987 654,321|R}} {{formatnum:987 654,321|R}}
Takes an unformatted number (Arabic, no group separators and . as decimal separator) and outputs it in the localized digit script and formatted with decimal and decimal group separators, according to the page language.
The |R parameter can be used to reverse the behavior, for use in mathematical situations: it's reliable and should be used only to deformat numbers which are known to be formatted exactly as formatnum formats them with the wiki's locale. The NOSEP ("no separators") parameter means that no group / decimal separators are changed; formatnum will only transform the digits themselves in languages which don't use the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.NOSEP can also prevent non-standard digit groupings you wouldn't expect.
Warning:
Leading zeroes are not removed, you can use {{#expr:00001}} instead if you have Extension:ParserFunctions installed.
Warning:
If you don't input numbers in the exact format required, don't expect any reliable output, especially on non-English wikis.
If you really need to format (according the wiki's locale) a number in unknown input format, you could try and use formatnum two times (but not if it can have a decimal group, or its separator will be eaten or the number won't be formatted). Be aware that this is more a hack than a regular way to proceed, thus the output may be not reliable.
{{#dateformat:25 dec 2009|ymd}}
→ 25 dec 2009 (your pref), 2009 December 25 (default) {{#formatdate:dec 25,2009|dmy}}
→ dec 25,2009 (your pref), 25 December 2009 (default) {{#dateformat:2009-12-25|mdy}}
→ ธันวาคม 25, 2009(your pref), December 25, 2009 (default) {{#formatdate:2009 dec 25|ISO 8601}}
→ 2009 dec 25 (your pref), 2009-12-25 (default) {{#dateformat:25 decEmber|mdy}}
→ 25 decEmber (your pref), December 25 (default)
Note: In the examples above, "your pref" refers to your date preference on the current MediaWiki wiki only.
Formats an unlinked date based on user "date format" preference, and adds metadata tagging it as a formatted date.For logged-out users and those who have not set a date format in their preferences, dates can be given a default: mdy, dmy, ymd, ISO 8601 (all case sensitive).If only the month and day are given, only mdy and dmy are valid.If a format is not specified or is invalid, the input format is used as a default.If the supplied date is not recognized as a valid date (specifically, if it contains any metadata such as from a nested use of these or similar templates), it is rendered unchanged, and no (additional) metadata is generated.
Warning:
Although the ISO 8601 standard requires that dates be in the Gregorian calendar, the ISO parameter in this function will still format dates that fall outside the usual Gregorian range (e.g. dates prior to 1583). Also, the magic word cannot properly convert between negative years (used with ISO 8601) and years BC or years BCE (used in general writing).
{{padleft:xyz|5|_}} → __xyz {{padleft:xyz|5|abc}} → abxyz {{padleft:xyz|2}} → xyz {{padleft:|1|xyz}} → x
(first character of the string)
Inserts a string of padding characters (character chosen in third parameter; default "0") of a specified length (second parameter) next to a chosen base character or variable (first parameter).The final digits or characters in the base replace the final characters in the padding; i.e. {{padleft:44|3|0}} produces 044.The padding string may be truncated if its length does not evenly divide the required number of characters.
Only the first character of the third parameter is used in versions up to 1.12, but by version 1.15, all the characters are used.
Bug (fixed in r45734): multibyte characters are interpreted as two characters, which can skew width. These also cannot be used as padding characters.
Wraps the text in a script-appropriate directionality marker (either left-to-right (U+202A) or right-to-left (U+202B)) and a pop directionality formatting character (U+202C), to ensure directionality safety when using a mix of scripts in running text.
Here are the magic words which are used as main localisation tools. Other magic words will often depend on the wiki's locale and configuration or on the chosen language: see in particular #Date and time, #Formatting, #Miscellaneous. More magic words are added by the ส่วนขยาย:การแปล.
The usage of these magic words can be very complex, and the documentation is currently incomplete; there's some more info on PLURAL, GRAMMAR, GENDER.
Usage
Input → Output
Description
Version
{{PLURAL:2|is|are}}
{{PLURAL:0|is|are}} → are {{PLURAL:1*1|is|are}} → is {{PLURAL:21 mod 10|is|are}} → are {{PLURAL:{{#expr:21 mod 10}}|is|are}} → is {{PLURAL:1|is|are}} → is {{PLURAL:2|is|are}} → are {{PLURAL:-1|is|are}} → is {{PLURAL:-2|is|are}} → are {{PLURAL:0.5|is|are}} → are {{PLURAL:1.5|is|are}} → are {{PLURAL:-0.5|is|are}} → are {{PLURAL:-1.5|is|are}} → are (For Russian) {{PLURAL:5|1=Категория|Категории}} → Категории
Outputs the singular form (second parameter) if the absolute value of the first parameter is an expression equalling one; the plural form (third parameter) otherwise. Its functioning is language-dependent.
Some language codes (ab, av, ba, bxr, ce, crh_cyrl, cv, inh, koi, krc, kv, lbe, lez, mhr, mrj, myv, ru, sl, tt_cyrl, tyv, udm, xal) used 3 plural forms (updated 01.2014):
Outputs the correct inflected form of the given word described by the inflection code after the colon (language-dependent). Grammar transformations are used for inflected languages like Polish. See also $wgGrammarForms.
≥ 1.7
{{GENDER:username|text for every gender}}
{{GENDER:Username|male text|female text|text for unspecified}} {{GENDER:|male text|female text|text for unspecified}} {{GENDER:.|male text|female text|text for unspecified}}
(Depends on the named user's gender)
A switch for the gender set in Special:Preferences. Note: The first example is basically a no-op Note: If 3rd parameter is omitted and user hasn't defined their gender, then text if user is male is returned. A blank username field ({{GENDER:|) means the current user, but can be used only in interface messages (MediaWiki namespace).
A dot username (.) means the default user gender on this wiki.
{{int:edit}} → Edit (Depends on user language; try: fr • ja)
Internationalizes (translates) the given interface (MediaWiki namespace) message into the user language. For msgnw and other transclusion magic words, see the Transclusion modifiers section.
Note that this can damage / confuse cache consistency in MediaWiki 1.17 and earlier, see T16404.
You may also use parameters with translations. Parameters are designated in messages with: $1, $2, $3, etc. For example, here is the message for editsectionhint: Edit section: $1 In this example, MediaWiki replaces $1.
Transclusion modifiers
{{Page name|optional params}} usually transcludes another page, by default from the Template:namespace.These magic words modify that behavior.
Usage
Description
Version
{{:xyz}}
A bare colon is not a template modifier but the prefix for the main namespace.Since transclusion defaults to the Template namespace, you would use for example, {{:UTC}} (vs. {{UTC}}) to include the text of the main namespace article UTC rather than Template:UTC.
{{int:xyz}}
Same as {{MediaWiki:xyz}}, except standard message translation is applied depending on subpages and content/user/uselang language.Another difference is: this doesn't appear under "แม่แบบที่ใช้ในหน้านี้:".Rendered as ⧼xyz⧽ if MediaWiki:xyz doesn't exist.See also Help:System message.
{{msg:xyz}} {{raw:xyz}}
Even if there is a magic word named "xyz", use template:xyz unless the template doesn't exist (equivalent to {{template:xyz}}).Normally, magic words have priority when there is a conflict.
{{raw:xyz}}
If $wgEnableScaryTranscluding is enabled, and this is an interwiki transclusion, include the raw wikitext instead of the html from the foreign wiki.
{{#language:language code}} {{#language:language code|target language code}}
{{#language:ar}} → العربية {{#language:ar|en}} → Arabic
The full name of the language for the given language code: native name (language autonym) by default, name translated in target language if a target language code is specified.Extension:CLDR must be installed for the translation to work.
{{#tag:ref|Citation on Magic words/th. |name = "multiple"}}
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[1]
Alias for XML-style MediaWiki parser tags or extension tags.It allows a pre-save transform of wiki code and Extension:ParserFunctions within tags before the tag is processed.It also prevents parsing of tags in conditional paths that aren't executed (like in #if statements).Content between tags is passed as the first parameter, and any attributes for the tags can be passed as subsequent parameters.This example:
You must write {{#tag:tagname||attribute1=value1|attribute2=value2}} to pass an empty content. No leading or trailing space of the text content are permitted between the pipe characters || before attribute1.
Warning: