Help:Variables

From Kidney Cancer Resource

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}}	01
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	January
Genitive form of current month name	{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	January
Abbreviated month name	{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	Jan
Day of the month	{{CURRENTDAY}}	8
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDOW}}	4
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Thursday
Week	{{CURRENTWEEK}}	2
Year	{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2009
current time	{{CURRENTTIME}}	11:17
number of pages in this Wiki (total)	{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	6,196
numbers of articles in this Wiki	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	2,814
numbers of uploaded files	{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	468
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}}	Kidney_Cancer_Resource
	{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}}	Kidney_Cancer_Resource_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}}	Kidney Cancer Resource
Servername	{{SERVERNAME}}	www.kidneycancerresource.com
Server	{{SERVER}}	http://www.kidneycancerresource.com
Script path	{{SCRIPTPATH}}
Local part of the URL	{{localurl:pagename}}	/index.php/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}}	239