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.

Description	You type	You get
Date & Wiki variables
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTH}}	11
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	November
Genitive form of current month name	{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	November
Abbreviated month name	{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	Nov
Day of the month	{{CURRENTDAY}}	13
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDOW}}	5
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Friday
Week	{{CURRENTWEEK}}	46
Year	{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2026
current time	{{CURRENTTIME}}	01:02
number of pages in this Wiki (total)	{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	192
numbers of articles in this Wiki	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	1
numbers of uploaded files	{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	5
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}}	Peyton Hall Documentation
	{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}}	Peyton Hall Documentation 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}}	Peyton Hall Documentation
Servername	{{SERVERNAME}}	docs.astro.princeton.edu
Server	{{SERVER}}	https://docs.astro.princeton.edu
Script path	{{SCRIPTPATH}}
Local part of the URL	{{localurl:pagename}}	/wiki/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}}	762