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| | See [[help:creating templates|here]] for creating templates. | | See [[help:creating templates|here]] for creating templates. |
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| | + | == Variables == |
| | + | MediaWiki includes a number of variables, which are auto-populated by the software each time the page is loaded. Here are some variables which can be useful, especially in the design of a template. Variables are entered with double braces on each side. They are show this way bellow, allthough by the strictest definition, the braces are not part of the variable tag.<br /> |
| | + | In every-day writing, these variables are not likely to be used. |
| | + | ===Site variables=== |
| | + | Probably some of the least useful variables are site variables. Unless someone is designing a template for multiple wikis, these probably will not be used. |
| | + | {| class="wikitable" |
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| | + | !Variable!!Description!!Current Value |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki>||Website name ||{{SITENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki>||Wiki's server name||{{SERVERNAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki>||Wiki's server address||{{SERVER}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki> || Curent version of Wiki software||{{CURRENTVERSION}} |
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| | + | |} |
| | + | ===Page variables=== |
| | + | {| class="wikitable" |
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| | + | ! Variable !! Description !! Current Value |
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| | + | | <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> || Displays the current page name ||{{PAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{PAGENAMEE}}</nowiki> || Displays the current page name with underscores in place of spaces ||{{PAGENAMEE}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{ARTICLEPAGENAME}}</nowiki> || Article page Name ||{{ARTICLEPAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}</nowiki> || Subject page name ||{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</nowiki> ||Page name without namespace||{{BASEPAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{ROOTPAGENAME}}</nowiki> ||Page name without namespace||{{ROOTPAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{SUBPAGENAME}}</nowiki> ||Sub-page name, if applicable. Otherwise, page name||{{SUBPAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{FULLPAGENAME}}</nowiki> ||Page name with namespace||{{FULLPAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</nowiki> || Full page name with underscores in place of spaces||{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} |
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| | + | | <nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}</nowiki> || Current namespace ||{{NAMESPACE}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{TALKPAGENAME}}</nowiki> || Talk page name ||{{TALKPAGENAME}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{TALKSPACE}}</nowiki> || Namespace of talk page ||{{TALKSPACE}} |
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| | + | | <nowiki>{{ARTICLESPACE}}</nowiki> || Namespace of main article||{{ARTICLESPACE}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}</nowiki> || Name space of current page ||{{NAMESPACE}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{NAMESPACENUMBER}}</nowiki> || Namespace number ||{{NAMESPACENUMBER}} |
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| | + | |<nowiki>{{SUBJECTSPACE}}</nowiki> || Subject Space ||{{SUBJECTSPACE}} |
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| | + | |} |
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| | [[Category:Help|Formatting]] | | [[Category:Help|Formatting]] |