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'''Magic words''' (including '''parser functions''', '''variables''' and '''behavior switches''') are features of [[Help:Wiki markup|wiki markup]] that give instructions to Wikipedia's underlying [[MediaWiki]] software. For example, magic words can suppress or position the table of contents, disable indexing by external search engines, and produce output dynamically based on the current page or on user-defined conditional logic. Some of these features are especially useful for [[WP:Templates|templates]].

This page is a quick reference for magic words. For more information, refer to the main MediaWiki documentation:
* [[mw:Help:Magic words]]: All standard magic words, including the "standard" parser functions.
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]]: Additional parser functions, including conditional expressions.

==General information==

In general, there are three types of magic words
# '''[[#Behavior switches|Behavior switches]]''': often appear in double underscores, all uppercase, e.g., <code>__NOTOC<nowiki />__</code>. They will change the behavior of a page, rather than return a value.
# '''[[#Parser functions|Parser functions]]''': all in lowercase. A parser function will be followed by colon and pipe-separated parameters, e.g., <code><nowiki>{{#ifexpr:Y|Yes|No}}</nowiki></code>, wrapped in double braces. They will take a value and return a value.
# '''[[#Variables|Variables]]''': these are all uppercase, e.g., {{tld|PAGENAME}}. A variable will be wrapped in double braces and will return a value in its place.

The software generally interprets magic words in the following way.
* Magic words are [[case sensitive]].
* [[Whitespace character|White space]] is generously allowed for readability. It will be stripped from the start and end of their keywords and parameters (as is also done inside templates).
* They can be [[WP:Transclusion|transcluded]], even variables "about the current page". This is ensured by the parsing order.
* Instead of magically transforming into HTML instructions, {{tag|[[help:wikitext#Nowiki|nowiki]]|o}} tags remove this magic so a magic word can itself be displayed (documented), e.g. <code><nowiki><nowiki>{{#magic:}}</nowiki></nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{#magic:<nowiki />}}</nowiki></code>.

Magic words compared to templates:
* As with templates, magic words can be [[help:transclusion|transcluded]] and [[Help:substitution|substituted]].
* The names of magic words are purposely chosen to be unlike the names of templates, and vice versa. Many parser function names will begin with a <code>#</code> ([[Hash (character)|pound or hash]]), but template names [[wp:NCHASHTAG | will not start with a <code>#</code>]], and probably not end in a <code>:</code> (colon), or be all-uppercase.
* The first parameter's syntax differs. In <code>{{#magic: <nowiki />p1 | p2 | p3}}</code>, the name is <code>#magic</code> and it is followed by an unspaced <code>:</code> and a required input parameter, <code>p1</code>. With a template, <code>p1</code> is optional and it is preceded by a <code>|</code> (pipe) instead of a <code>:</code>, e.g. <code>{{template<nowiki />|p1}}</code>.

==Behavior switches==
{{anchor|Behaviour switches}}
{{further|mw:Help:Magic words#Behavior switches}}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Switch
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></kbd>
| Places the page's [[Help:Table of contents|table of contents (TOC)]] at the word's position.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></kbd>
| Forces the TOC to appear in its default position, even when there are fewer than four headings. Can be used anywhere on a page.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></kbd>
| Suppresses the appearance of the page's TOC. Can be used anywhere on a page.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki></kbd>
| Hides the "edit" links normally beside ''all'' headings on the page. To hide the edit link beside a ''particular'' heading, specify the heading using e.g. an [[HTML element|HTML tag]] such as {{tag|h2|content=''heading''}} rather than with the usual wiki equals-signs syntax (e.g. {{nowrap|1=<kbd>== ''heading'' ==</kbd>}}{{thinsp}}).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__NEWSECTIONLINK__</nowiki></kbd>
| On non-talk pages, adds a "{{int:vector-action-addsection}}" link as a means to add a new section to the page.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__NONEWSECTIONLINK__</nowiki></kbd>
| Removes the "{{int:vector-action-addsection}}" link (the add-new-section link) on talk pages.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__NOGALLERY__</nowiki></kbd>
| Replaces thumbnails on a category page with normal links.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></kbd>
| Makes a category [[WP:HIDDENCAT|hidden]] when included on that category's page.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__INDEX__</nowiki></kbd>
| Instructs [[Web search engine|search engine]]s to index the page.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__NOINDEX__</nowiki></kbd>
| Instructs search engines not to index the page. See [[Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing]].
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__STATICREDIRECT__</nowiki></kbd>
| Prevents the link on a [[Help:Redirect|redirection]] page from being updated automatically when the page to which it redirects is moved (and "Update any redirects that point to the original title" is selected). Also instructs [[Help:Interwiki linking|interwiki]] [[Wikipedia:Bots|bots]] to treat the page as if an article.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd><nowiki>__DISAMBIG__</nowiki></kbd>
| Marks a page as a [[WP:DAB|disambiguation page]], adds it to [[Special:DisambiguationPages]] and places inward links in [[Special:DisambiguationPageLinks]]. (See [[mw:Extension:Disambiguator]].)
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}}</kbd>
| Used to amend the [[WP:DISPLAYTITLE|displayed form]] of the page's title.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{DEFAULTSORT:''sortkey''}}</kbd>
| Sets the default [[WP:SORTKEY|key]] (the index) under which the page is categorised.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Extension:Wikibase Client#noexternallanglinks|{<nowiki/>{NOEXTERNALLANGLINKS}}]]</kbd>
|| (equivalent to {<nowiki/>{NOEXTERNALLANGLINKS|*}}{{thinsp}}) Suppresses the automated inclusion of [[Wikidata:Help:Linking Wikipedia pages|Wikidata]] [[Help:Interlanguage links|interlanguage links]] on the lefthand side of the page. Links to particular rather than all languages may be suppressed by using {<nowiki/>{NOEXTERNALLANGLINKS|''list''}}, where ''list'' a [[Vertical bar|pipe]]-[[Delimiter|delimited]] list of [[language code]]s (e.g. {<nowiki/>{NOEXTERNALLANGLINKS|fr{{pipe}}es{{pipe}}ja}} to suppress the French ("fr"), Spanish ("es") and Japanese ("ja") interlanguage links).
|}

==Variables==

{{Shortcut|WP:VAR}}
{{further|mw:Help:Magic words#Variables|Wikipedia:Page name#sub}}

{{Anchor|FULLPAGENAME|PAGENAME|BASEPAGENAME|ROOTPAGENAME|SUBPAGENAME|ARTICLEPAGENAME|SUBJECTPAGENAME|TALKPAGENAME|NAMESPACENUMBER|NAMESPACE|ARTICLESPACE|SUBJECTSPACE|TALKSPACE}}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Page name variable
! scope="col" | Output
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{FULLPAGENAME}}</kbd>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
| Canonical [[Help:page name|page name]]. ''Title line''.  Title unless letter-case is altered with {{tld|DISPLAYTITLE}}.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{PAGENAME}}</kbd>
| {{PAGENAME}}
| Title line excluding [[Wikipedia:Namespace|namespace]].
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{BASEPAGENAME}}</kbd>
| {{BASEPAGENAME}}
| Title of parent page, excluding namespace.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{ROOTPAGENAME}}</kbd>
| {{ROOTPAGENAME}}
| Title of topmost parent (before all subpages), excluding namespace.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[wp:pagename#sub|{<nowiki/>{SUBPAGENAME}}]]</kbd>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
| On a subpage, rightmost portion of ''current'' title; higher subpagenames show as [[Breadcrumb navigation|backlinks]].
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{ARTICLEPAGENAME}}</kbd>
| {{ARTICLEPAGENAME}}
| rowspan="2" | Title of the subject page associated with the current page. These are useful on talk pages (but see note about Category talk pages).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}</kbd>
| {{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{TALKPAGENAME}}</kbd>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
| Title of the talk page associated with the current page. Useful on subject pages.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NAMESPACENUMBER}}</kbd>
| {{NAMESPACENUMBER:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}
| Number of the current page's namespace.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NAMESPACE}}</kbd>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
| Namespace of the title.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{ARTICLESPACE}}</kbd>
| {{ARTICLESPACE}}
| rowspan="2" | On a talk page, the namespace part of the title of the associated subject page.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{SUBJECTSPACE}}</kbd>
| {{SUBJECTSPACE}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{TALKSPACE}}</kbd>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
| Namespace of the talk page associated with the current page.
|-
! scope="row" | {{longitem|style=line-height:1.5em|<kbd>{<nowiki/>{FULLPAGENAMEE}<nowiki/>}</kbd>,<br /><kbd>{<nowiki/>{PAGENAMEE}<nowiki/>}</kbd>,<br />{{pad|0.4em}}(etc.)}}
| {{longitem|style=line-height:1.5em|{{FULLPAGENAMEE}},<br/>{{PAGENAMEE}},<br/>(etc.)}}
| Adding an E to the end of the above variables, renders the above encoded for use in MediaWiki [[URL]]s (i.e. with underscores replacing spaces).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{SHORTDESC}}</kbd>
| <!-- do not invoke this magic word here: shows nothing and places page in error-tracking category -->
| Only works on the English Wikipedia, where it displays a short description below the article title on mobile platforms. {{crossref|printworthy=y|See [[Wikipedia:Short description]].}}
|}

''Note:'' The magic words above can also take a parameter, in order to parse values on a page other than the current page. A colon (<kbd>:</kbd>) is used to pass the parameter, rather than a pipe (<kbd>{{!}}</kbd>) that is used in templates, like <kbd><nowiki>{{MAGICWORD:value}}</nowiki></kbd>. For example, <kbd><nowiki>{{TALKPAGENAME:Wikipedia:MOS}}</nowiki></kbd> returns <samp><nowiki>Wikipedia talk:MOS</nowiki></samp> on any page.

''Note:'' In the "Category" and "Category talk" namespaces, to wikilink (some) page name variables may require [[help:link|prefixing a colon]] to avoid unwanted categorization.

{{crossref|printworthy=y|For more details on parser functions that relate to page names and namespaces, see: {{section link|meta:Help:Page name#Variables and parser functions}}.}}
{{Anchor|SITENAME|SERVER|SERVERNAME|SCRIPTPATH|CURRENTVERSION}}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Site variable
! scope="col" | Output
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{SITENAME}}</kbd>
| {{SITENAME}}
|
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{SERVER}}</kbd>
| {{SERVER}}
|
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{SERVERNAME}}</kbd>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{SCRIPTPATH}}</kbd>
| {{SCRIPTPATH}}
|
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTVERSION}}</kbd>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
| Returns current MediaWiki version.
|}

{{anchor|Other variables}}
===Other variables by type===
{{Anchor|CURRENTYEAR|CURRENTMONTH|CURRENTMONTHNAME|CURRENTMONTHABBREV|CURRENTDAY|CURRENTDAY2|CURRENTDOW|CURRENTDAYNAME|CURRENTTIME|CURRENTHOUR|CURRENTWEEK|CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}

{{Anchor|LOCALYEAR|LOCALMONTH|LOCALMONTHNAME|LOCALMONTHABBREV|LOCALDAY|LOCALDAY2|LOCALDOW|LOCALDAYNAME|LOCALTIME|LOCALHOUR|LOCALWEEK|LOCALTIMESTAMP}}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Current date and time
! scope="col" colspan=2 | Universal time
! scope="col" colspan=2 | Local-website time
|-
! scope="col" | Variable
! scope="col" | Output
! scope="col" | Variable
! scope="col" | Output
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTYEAR}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTYEAR}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALYEAR}}</kbd> || {{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTMONTH}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTMONTH}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALMONTH}}</kbd> || {{LOCALMONTH}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</kbd> || {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}</kbd> || {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTDAY}}</kbd> {{efn|<kbd><nowiki>{{CURRENTDAY}}</nowiki></kbd>, <kbd><nowiki>{{LOCALDAY}}</nowiki></kbd> and <kbd><nowiki>{{REVISIONDAY}}</nowiki></kbd> return the day (i.e. "6"), whilst <kbd><nowiki>{{CURRENTDAY2}}</nowiki></kbd>, <kbd><nowiki>{{LOCALDAY2}}</nowiki></kbd> and <kbd><nowiki>{{REVISIONDAY2}}</nowiki></kbd> return the day with zero-padding (i.e. "06"). For all two-digit days (i.e. 10 to 31), these are the same.|name=daynote}} || {{CURRENTDAY}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALDAY}}</kbd> {{efn|name=daynote}} || {{LOCALDAY}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTDAY2}}</kbd> {{efn|name=daynote}} || {{CURRENTDAY2}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALDAY2}}</kbd> {{efn|name=daynote}} || {{LOCALDAY2}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTDOW}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTDOW}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALDOW}}</kbd> || {{LOCALDOW}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTDAYNAME}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALDAYNAME}}</kbd> || {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTTIME}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTTIME}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALTIME}}</kbd> || {{LOCALTIME}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTHOUR}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTHOUR}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALHOUR}}</kbd> || {{LOCALHOUR}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTWEEK}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTWEEK}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALWEEK}}</kbd> || {{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}</kbd> || {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
| <kbd>{<nowiki/>{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</kbd> || {{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|}

{{Anchor|REVISIONDAY|REVISIONDAY2|REVISIONMONTH|REVISIONYEAR|REVISIONTIMESTAMP|REVISIONUSER}}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Page revision data
! scope="col" | Variable
! scope="col" | Output
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{REVISIONDAY}}</kbd> {{efn|name=daynote}}
| {{REVISIONDAY}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{REVISIONDAY2}}</kbd> {{efn|name=daynote}}
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{REVISIONMONTH}}</kbd>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{REVISIONYEAR}}</kbd>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</kbd>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{REVISIONUSER}}</kbd> {{efn|This shows the last user to edit the page. There is no way to show the user viewing the page due to technical restrictions.}}
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|}
{{notelist}}

{{Anchor|NUMBEROFPAGES|NUMBEROFARTICLES|NUMBEROFFILES|NUMBEROFEDITS|NUMBEROFVIEWS|NUMBEROFUSERS|NUMBEROFADMINS|NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Wiki statistics
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFPAGES}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFFILES}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFEDITS}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
<!--disabled in MediaWiki (see talk page):
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFVIEWS}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}}
-->
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFUSERS}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFADMINS}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}</kbd>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
|}

==Parser functions==
{{Shortcut|WP:PF|WP:PARSER}}
{{further|mw:Help:Magic words#Parser functions|mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions}}

===Metadata===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Function
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{PAGEID}}</kbd>
| Unique page identifier number (for example, this page's ID is <kbd>{{PAGEID}}</kbd>). 
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{PAGESIZE:''fullpagename''}}</kbd>
| Size of named page in bytes (for example, this page is <kbd>{{PAGESIZE:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</kbd> bytes).
|-
! scope="row" | {{anchor|PROTECTIONLEVEL}}<kbd>{<nowiki/>{PROTECTIONLEVEL:''action''{{pipe}}''fullpagename''}}</kbd>
| [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|Protection level]] assigned to ''action'' ("edit", "move", etc.) on named page (this page's protection level for "edit" is <kbd>{{PROTECTIONLEVEL:edit|Help:Magic words}}</kbd>).
|-
! scope="row" | {{anchor|PROTECTIONEXPIRY}}<kbd>{<nowiki/>{PROTECTIONEXPIRY:''action''{{pipe}}''fullpagename''}}</kbd>
| [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|Protection expiry]] assigned to ''action'' ("edit", "move", etc.) on named page (this page's protection level is <kbd>{{PROTECTIONEXPIRY:edit|Help:Magic words}}</kbd>).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{PENDINGCHANGELEVEL}}</kbd>
| Protection level for [[WP:PC|pending changes]] on the current page (this page, which doesn't have one, is <kbd>{{PENDINGCHANGELEVEL}}</kbd>). 
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{PAGESINCATEGORY:''categoryname''}}</kbd>
| Number of pages in the category named ''categoryname''. Each subcategory is counted as one item.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{NUMBERINGROUP:''groupname''}}</kbd>
| Number of users in the [[Wikipedia:User access levels|user group]] named ''groupname''.
|}
Page IDs can be associated with articles via wikilinks (i.e. <code>[[Special:Redirect/page/3235121]]</code> goes to this page).
To output numbers without comma [[Delimiter|separator]]s (for example, as "123456789" rather than "123,456,789"), append the parameter <kbd>|R</kbd>.

===Formatting===
{{further|mw:Help:Magic words#Formatting}}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Function
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}lc:''string''{{))}}      </kbd>
| Converts all characters in ''string'' to lower case.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}lcfirst:''string''{{))}} </kbd>
| Converts first character of ''string'' to lower case.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}uc:''string''{{))}}      </kbd>
| Converts all characters in ''string'' to upper case.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}ucfirst:''string''{{))}} </kbd>
| Converts first character of ''string'' to upper case.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}formatnum:''unformatted_number''{{))}}<br>{{((}}formatnum:''formatted_num'' {{pipe}}R{{))}} </kbd>
| Adds comma separators to an ''unformatted_number'' (e.g. 123456789 becomes {{formatnum:123456789}}). To remove such formatting, use <kbd>{{((}}formatnum:''formatted_number''{{pipe}}R{{))}}</kbd> (i.e. <kbd>{{braces|formatnum:7,654,321{{pipe}}R}}</kbd>, for example, produces {{formatnum:7,654,321|R}}).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}#dateformat:''date''{{pipe}}''format''{{))}}<br/>{{((}}#formatdate:''date''{{pipe}}''format''{{))}} </kbd>
| Formats a date according to user preferences; a default can be given as an optional case-sensitive second parameter for users without date preference; can convert a date from an existing format to any of <code>dmy</code>, <code>mdy</code>, <code>ymd</code>, or <code>[[ISO 8601]]</code> formats, with the user's preference overriding the specified format.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}padleft:''xyz''{{pipe}}''stringlength''{{))}} <br/> {{((}}padright:''xyz''{{pipe}}''stringlength''{{))}} <br><br> {{((}}padleft:''xyz''{{pipe}}''length''{{pipe}}''padstr''{{))}} <br/>{{((}}padright:''xyz''{{pipe}}''length''{{pipe}}''padstr''{{))}} </kbd>
| Pad with zeroes '0' to the right or left, to fill the given length; an alternative padding string can be given as a third parameter; the repeated padding string (''padstr'') will be truncated if its length does not evenly divide the required number of characters.
|-
! scope="row" id="mwplural" | <kbd> {{((}}plural:''N''{{pipe}}''singular''{{pipe}}''plural''{{))}} </kbd>
| Outputs ''singular'' if ''N'' is equal to 1, otherwise outputs ''plural''. See the [[mw:Help:Magic words#Localization|documentation at mediawiki.org]] for more details.
|-
! scope="row" id="mwtime" | <kbd> {{((}}#time:''format''{{pipe}}''object''{{))}} </kbd><br/> <kbd> {{((}}#timel:''format''{{pipe}}''object''{{))}} <br><br> {{((}}#time:d F Y{{pipe}}''date''{{pipe}}''langcode''{{))}} </kbd>
| Used to format dates and times, for ISO format, dots or English month names. <kbd>#timel</kbd> is based on local time as defined for each wiki; for English Wikipedia, this is identical to <kbd>#time</kbd>.<br />The optional 3rd parameter is the output language code (French, German, Swedish: fr, de, sv, etc.). Example Finnish: <kbd><nowiki>{{#time:d F Y|June 30, 2016|fi}}</nowiki></kbd> shows: {{#time:d F Y|June 30, 2016|fi}} (June). ISO to German: <kbd><nowiki>{{#time:d. M Y|1987-10-31|de}}</nowiki></kbd> shows: {{#time:d. M Y|1987-10-31|de}}.<br />For format codes, see: [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##time]]. Use the format <kbd><nowiki>{{#time: H:i, j F Y (e)|...}}</nowiki></kbd> to match the format used by timestamps in signatures.
|-
! scope="row" id="mwgender" | {{anchor|gender|Gender}}<kbd> {{((}}gender:''user''{{pipe}}''m_out''{{pipe}}''f_out''{{pipe}}''u_out''{{))}} </kbd>
| Outputs ''m_out'', ''f_out'' or ''u_out'' according to whether the gender specified in ''user''{{thinsp}}'s preferences is, respectively, male, female or unspecified. Other parameter permutations are available, see [[mw:Help:Magic words#gender]] and [[translatewiki:Special:MyLanguage/Gender|translatewiki:Gender]].
|-
! scope="row" id="mwtag" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Magic words#Miscellaneous|{{((}}#tag:''tag''{{pipe}}''content with magic''{{))}} ]]</kbd>
| Only way to [[eval]]uate magic words ''inside a tag'', in order to generate <code>&lt;''tag''>''magic''&lt;/''tag''></code>.  Also handles tag attributes.
|}

===Paths===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Function
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}localurl:''fullpagename'' {{pipe}}''query''{{))}} </kbd>
| Relative [[Path (computing)|path]] to page name. The ''query'' parameter is optional.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}fullurl:''fullpagename'' {{pipe}}''query''{{))}} </kbd>
| Absolute path, without [[Application layer|protocol prefix]] (i.e. without "{{thinsp}}<nowiki>http:</nowiki>{{thinsp}}" etc.), to page name. The ''query'' parameter is optional.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}canonicalurl:''fullpagename'' {{pipe}}''query''{{))}} </kbd>
| Absolute path, including protocol prefix, to page name. The ''query'' parameter is optional.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}filepath:''filename''{{))}} </kbd>
| Absolute path to the media file ''filename''.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}urlencode:''string''{{))}} </kbd>
|{{anchor|urlencode}} [[WP:ENCODE|Encodes]] ''string'' for use in URL query strings; <kbd>{{braces|urlencode:test string}}</kbd>, for example, produces: {{urlencode:test string}}. To encode ''string'' for use in URL paths or MediaWiki page names, append, respectively, {{para||PATH}} or {{para||WIKI}} (to produce "{{urlencode:test string|PATH}}" or "{{urlencode:test string|WIKI}}").
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}anchorencode:''string''{{))}} </kbd>
| Input encoded for use in MediaWiki URL [[Help:Anchor|section anchor]]s.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> {{((}}ns:''n''{{))}} </kbd>
| Returns the name of the [[wp:Namespace|namespace]] whose index is the number ''n''. For MediaWiki URLs, use <kbd>{{((}}nse:{{))}}</kbd>.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##rel2abs|{{((}}#rel2abs:''path''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Converts a relative file path to an absolute path.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##titleparts|{{((}}#titleparts:''fullpagename''{{pipe}}''number''{{pipe}}''first segment''{{))}}]]</kbd>
| Splits the fullpagename (title) into that number of segments.
|}

===Conditional===
{{further|Help:Conditional expressions}}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Function
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" |<kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions##expr|{{((}}#expr:''expression''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Evaluates ''expression'' (see [[m:Help:Calculation]]).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions##if|{{((}}#if:''string'' {{pipe}}''result1'' {{pipe}}''result2''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Outputs ''result2'' if ''string'' is [[Empty string|empty]], otherwise outputs ''result1''.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions##ifeq|{{((}}#ifeq:''string1''{{pipe}}''string2'' {{pipe}}''result1'' {{pipe}}''result2''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Outputs ''result1'' if ''string1'' and ''string2'' are equal (alphabetically or numerically), otherwise outputs ''result2''.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions##iferror|{{((}}#iferror:''test_string'' {{pipe}}''result1'' {{pipe}}''result2''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Outputs ''result1'' if ''test_string'' generates a parsing error, otherwise outputs ''result2''.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions##ifexpr|{{((}}#ifexpr:''expression'' {{pipe}}''result1'' {{pipe}}''result2''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Outputs ''result1'' if ''expression''{{thinsp}} is true, otherwise outputs ''result2''.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions##ifexist|{{((}}#ifexist:''pagetitle'' {{pipe}}''result1'' {{pipe}}''result2''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Outputs ''result1'' if the page [<nowiki/>[''pagetitle'']] exists, otherwise outputs ''result2''.  Note that underscores are needed for spaces in namespaces.
|-
! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap;" | <kbd> [[mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions##switch|{{((}}#switch:''string'' {{pipe}}''c1''=''r1'' {{pipe}}''c2''=''r2'' ... {{pipe}}''default''{{))}}]] </kbd>
| Outputs ''r1'' if ''string'' is ''c1'', ''r2'' if ''string'' is ''c2'', etc., otherwise outputs ''default'' (if provided).
|}

If, in these conditional functions, [[Empty string|empty]] unnamed parameters are to be parsed as empty rather than as text (i.e. as empty rather than as the text "{{{1}}}", "{{{2}}}", etc.), they will require trailing pipes (i.e. <kbd>{{(((}}1{{pipe}}{{)))}}</kbd>, <kbd>{{(((}}2{{pipe}}{{)))}}</kbd>, etc., rather than <kbd>{{(((}}1{{)))}}</kbd>, <kbd>{{(((}}2{{)))}}</kbd>, etc.).
* For the use of these functions in tables, see [[Help:Conditional tables]].

===Other===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Function
! scope="col" | Description
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Extension:Babel#Usage|{<nowiki/>{#babel:''code1''|''code2''|...}}]]</kbd>
| Render [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userboxes]] telling your language skills. Improves upon {{tl|Babel}} (an alternative).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Extension:CategoryTree|{<nowiki/>{#categorytree:''category''|...}}]]</kbd>
| List pages in a category, recursively.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Extension:GeoData#Parser function|{<nowiki/>{#coordinates:''arg1''|''arg2''|...}}]]</kbd>
| Save the [[Geographic coordinate system|GeoData coordinates]] of the subject to the page's database. Used in {{tl|coord}}.
|-
! scope="row" style=white-space:nowrap| <kbd> [[mw:Extension:Scribunto#Usage|{<nowiki />{#invoke:''module''|''function''|''arg1''|...}}]]</kbd>
|| Use [[mw:Extension:Scribunto|Scribunto]] to transclude a [[Wikipedia:Lua|lua]] template, e.g. function ''replace'' in [[Module:String#replace|module ''String'']].
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>{<nowiki />{[[mw:Help:Magic words#Miscellaneous|#language]]:[[ISO 639|''code1'']]|''code2''}}</kbd>
| Print the name represented by the language code, e.g. '''en''' → '''English'''.  Print in language 2 if given, e.g. <kbd><nowiki>{{#language:en|zh}}</nowiki></kbd> prints {{#language:en|zh}}
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion|<nowiki>{{#lst:}} {{#lsth:}} {{#lstx:}}</nowiki>]]</kbd>
| Three ways to [[Help:Labeled section transclusion|transclude a section of a page]].
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[m:Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion syntax v0.4|{<nowiki />{#property:''arg1''|''arg2''|...}} ]]</kbd>
| Include a [[d:Help:FAQ#Terminology|property]] ([[Wikipedia:Wikidata|Wikidata]]) from a named entity, instead of the default on the page.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Reading/Web/Projects/Read more|{<nowiki />{#related:...}}]]</kbd>
| Links to similar topics, to engage readers.  (Beta feature.)
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[Help:Labeled section transclusion|{{#section<nowiki />:}}{{zwsp}}{{#section-h<nowiki />:}}{{zwsp}}{{#section-x<nowiki />:}}]]</kbd>
| Aliases for <kbd><nowiki>{{#lst:}} {{#lsth}} {{#lstx}}</nowiki></kbd> (above).
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[d:Wikidata:How to use data on Wikimedia projects|{<nowiki />{#statements:''arg1''|...}} ]]</kbd>
| Display the value of any statement (Wikidata) included in an item.
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage#Parser function delivery lists|{<nowiki />{#target:''fullpagename''}}]]</kbd>
| Send a message to a list of talk pages on the fullpagename, using the [[m:MassMessage|MassMessage function]].
|-
! scope="row" | <kbd>[[mw:Help:Magic words#Localization|{<nowiki />{int:''pagename''}}]] </kbd>
| [[Wikipedia:Transclusion|Transclude]] an ''interface'' message, i.e. a [[Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:|pagename in MediaWiki namespace]]
|}

==See also==
* [[mw:Localisation]]
* [[mw:Manual:Extending wiki markup]]
* [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/history/master/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php CoreParserFunctions.php]
* [[User:Cacycle/wikEd|wikEd]], a MediaWiki editor with syntax highlighting for templates and parser functions
* {{myprefs|Gadgets|Editing|check=Syntax highlighter}}
* {{myprefs|Beta features|check=Wiki syntax highlighting}}
* [[Special:Version]], see last section "Parser function hooks":<!--(a #section link is not possible)--> a list that should include all of the magic words on this page
* {{tl|Ifexist not redirect}}, works with the <nowiki>{{#ifexist:}}</nowiki> expression while allowing redirects to be identified and parsed differently

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[[Category:Wikipedia features]]

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