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
Template:Hl2 colspan="3" | Date & Wiki variables
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTH}}	06
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	June
Genitive form of current month name	{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	June
Abbreviated month name	{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	Jun
Day of the month	{{CURRENTDAY}}	10
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDOW}}	3
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Wednesday
Week	{{CURRENTWEEK}}	24
Year	{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2026
current time	{{CURRENTTIME}}	04:36
number of pages in this Wiki (total)	{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	99
numbers of articles in this Wiki	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	5
numbers of uploaded files	{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	54
Template:Hl2 colspan="3" | 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}}	Andrew's website
	{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}}	Andrew's website 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
Template:Hl2 colspan="3" | Server specific
Sitename	{{SITENAME}}	Andrew's website
Servername	{{SERVERNAME}}	www.andrewls.me.uk
Server	{{SERVER}}	http://www.andrewls.me.uk
Script path	{{SCRIPTPATH}}	/mediawiki
Local part of the URL	{{localurl:pagename}}	/Pagename
	{{localurl:pagename|query string}}	/mediawiki/index.php?title=Pagename&query string
Template:Hl2 colspan="3" | Page related
Pagename	{{PAGENAME}}	Variables
Pagename (URL encoded)	{{PAGENAMEE}}	Variables
Namespace	{{NAMESPACE}}	Help
Revision ID	{{REVISIONID}}	1514

External links

Help:Variable