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
Template:Hl2 colspan="3" | Date & Wiki variables
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTH}}	05
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	May
Genitive form of current month name	{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	May
Abbreviated month name	{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	May
Day of the month	{{CURRENTDAY}}	3
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDOW}}	5
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Friday
Week	{{CURRENTWEEK}}	18
Year	{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2024
current time	{{CURRENTTIME}}	08:24
number of pages in this Wiki (total)	{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	194
numbers of articles in this Wiki	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	62
numbers of uploaded files	{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	20
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}}	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
Template:Hl2 colspan="3" | Server specific
Sitename	{{SITENAME}}	Peyton Hall Documentation
Servername	{{SERVERNAME}}	docs.astro.princeton.edu
Server	{{SERVER}}	https://docs.astro.princeton.edu
Script path	{{SCRIPTPATH}}	/wiki
Local part of the URL	{{localurl:pagename}}	/wiki/index.php/pagename
	{{localurl:pagename|query string}}	/wiki/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}}	751