Help:Variables

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.

Template:Hl3|Description	Template:Hl3|You type	Template:Hl3|You get
Date & Wiki variables
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTH}}	12
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	December
Genitive form of current month name	{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	December
Abbreviated month name	{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	Dec
Day of the month	{{CURRENTDAY}}	18
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDOW}}	3
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Wednesday
Week	{{CURRENTWEEK}}	51
Year	{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2024
current time	{{CURRENTTIME}}	14:23
number of pages in this Wiki (total)	{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	87,705
numbers of articles in this Wiki	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	37,945
numbers of uploaded files	{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	131
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}}	Transcribe Bentham: Transcription Desk
	{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}}	Transcribe Bentham: Transcription Desk 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
Server specific
Sitename	{{SITENAME}}	Transcribe Bentham: Transcription Desk
Servername	{{SERVERNAME}}	transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk
Server	{{SERVER}}	http://transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk
Script path	{{SCRIPTPATH}}
Local part of the URL	{{localurl:pagename}}	/td/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}}	5074