MediaWiki/content programming
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Overview
MediaWiki's built-in features already allow some simple dynamic text management and manipulation; with the addition of various extensions, much more sophisticated tasks can be accomplished, making MediaWiki into a sort of "swiss army knife" content manager application.
Information
How to get various bits of information about stuff
| Date/Time | ||
| Year | MW: {{CURRENTYEAR}} | 2024 |
| Month | MW: {{CURRENTMONTH}} (zero-padded number) | 11 |
| MW: {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} (name) | November | |
| MW: {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} (genitive form) | November | |
| MW: {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} (abbreviation; requires MW 1.5+) | Nov | |
| Day-of-month | MW: {{CURRENTDAY}} (unpadded number) | 17 |
| MW: {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero-padded number; requires MW 1.6+) | 17 | |
| Day-of-week | MW: {{CURRENTDOW}} (unpadded number) | 0 |
| MW: {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} (name) | Sunday | |
| Week | MW: {{CURRENTWEEK}} (number) | 46 |
| Time: full | MW: {{CURRENTTIME}} (24-hour HH:mm format) | 20:31 |
| Time: hour | MW: {{CURRENTHOUR}} (24-hour zero-padded number) | 20 |
| Timestamp | MW: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} | 20241117203105 |
| Site Info | ||
| Site's name ($wgSitename) |
MW: {{SITENAME}} | HTYP |
| MediaWiki version | MW: {{CURRENTVERSION}} | 1.35.0 |
| Default language ($wgLanguageCode) |
MW: {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} | en |
| # of wiki pages | MW: {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} | 5,093 |
| # of pages in main namespace | MW: {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} | 2,788 |
| # of uploaded files | MW: {{NUMBEROFFILES}} | 552 |
| # of page edits | MW: {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} | 32,009 |
| # of registered users | MW: {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} | 7,482 |
| # of sysops | MW: {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} | 3 |
| Page Title | ||
| Full Title | MW: {{FULLPAGENAME}} | MediaWiki/content programming |
| MW: {{SUBJECTPAGENAME}} - namespace+base | MediaWiki/content programming | |
| MW: {{TALKPAGENAME}} - talkpage namespace+base | Talk:MediaWiki/content programming | |
| Prefix (namespace only) |
DPL: %NAMESPACE% | |
| Suffix (without namespace) |
DPL: %TITLE% | |
| MW: {{PAGENAME}} | MediaWiki/content programming | |
| MW: {{BASEPAGENAME}} - base title, no subpage | MediaWiki | |
| MW: {{SUBPAGENAME}} - subpage | content programming | |
| Namespace | MW: {{NAMESPACE}} | |
| Content namespace | MW: {{SUBJECTSPACE}} | |
| Talk namespace | MW: {{TALKSPACE}} | Talk |
| Page Info | ||
| Usage counter (hits) | DPL: %COUNT% (requires addpagecounter=true)
DPL: %COUNTFS% = a font size number based on usage counter | |
| Page size (bytes) | DPL: %SIZE% (requires addpagesize=true)
DPL: %SIZEFS% – font size number based on article size | |
| Creation date | DPL: %DATE% (requires addeditdate=true and ordermethod=firstedit) | |
| Last edit date | DPL: %DATE% (requires addeditdate=true and ordermethod=lastedit) | |
| MW: {{REVISIONDAY}}: Day edit was made (unpadded number) | 1 | |
| MW: {{REVISIONDAY2}}: Day edit was made (zero-padded number) | 01 | |
| MW: {{REVISIONMONTH}}: Month edit was made (unpadded number) | 08 | |
| MW: {{REVISIONYEAR}}: Year edit was made | 2008 | |
| MW: {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}: Timestamp as of time of edit | 20080801182318 | |
| Page creator | DPL: %USER% (requires adduser=true and ordermethod=firstedit) | |
| Page last editor | DPL: %USER% (requires adduser=true and ordermethod=lastedit) | |
| Revision ID | MW: {{REVISIONID}} | 10045 |
Sources
- MW (built-in): Help:Magic words
- DPL: DPL Manual