Help talk:Magic words

Pending change level

This page needs to be updated with {{PENDINGCHANGELEVEL}}, but I'm not sure that I could describe it accurately myself. Does anyone know who the right person to ask is? Mr. Stradivarius (talk) 10:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

First off, what is a {{PENDINGCHANGELEVEL}}? I've tried searching the text for anywhere on this wiki and en.wikipedia and can't find a thing referring to that. It looks like some kind of Magic Word or Template, but I can't find it on the Help:Magic Words page or in the Template namespace.

Secondly, what is the change that you think condones a {{PENDINGCHANGELEVEL}}?

-- ShoeMaker   ( Contributions • Message )   19:15, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

PENDINGCHANGELEVEL is a magic word that shows the level of pending-changes protection active on the current page. It's already implemented, it's just not documented here yet - I revised a meta-template for protection icons using it on en.wiki (en:Template:Pp-meta). On the template talk page, someone pointed to this page where it was apparently put into MediaWiki, but I don't really understand the code review process or localization issues, so I thought I'd ask before adding it to the page in case I got it wrong. Best --Mr. Stradivarius (talk) 03:01, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Does that magic word belong to the core (or core set of extensions)? I would think it is part of Extension:FlaggedRevs' Special:PendingChanges. No? Either way, I don't see this MAG listed on Special:Version with the rest of the MAGs. — T13   ( C • M • Click to learn how to view this signature as intended ) 10:34, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

It's extension specific so probably belongs on in the extension docs. Note afaik special:version only lists parser functions not variables and this one is a variable. Bawolff (talk) 11:31, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be in the same group as ... numberofedits, numberoffiles, numberofpages, numberofusers, numberofviews, padleft, padright, pagename, pagenamee, pagesincategory, pagesize, plural, protectionlevel, ... ? Technical 13 (talk) 12:06, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Option NOSEP in formatnum

What does it do? See translatewiki:Thread:Support/Magic_Word_"NOSEP". --Nemo 21:24, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Reading numbers from titles

Hi. Could anybody help me how to read only numbers from titles with different parametres (e.g. the title is "1256 something" and the template should extract only "1256"; or the title is "something 358 something" and the template should extract only "358")? I tried it by using different magic words, but they appeared to be useless in this case. I'd also like to know if it's possible to create a template that will read the words from the title in a given order (e.g. the title is "Canis Minor" and the template should read only the second word, i.e. "Minor"). Thanks.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 07:48, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Replied here: Thread:Project:Support desk/Reading numbers from titles --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:35, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

{{PAGESINCAT:Foo|subpages}}

Is there an easy way to get the total number of subpages in a category such as {{PAGESINCAT:Foo|subpages}}? This would be useful for keeping track of members of maintenance categories that are segregated by month or year. Technical 13 (talk) 15:44, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

No, and this could be a highly expensive parser function. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:12, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

{{REVISIONxxx:Foo}}

Is there any way to get revision information using the magic words for another page such as getting {{REVISIONUSER:Foo}} or {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP:Foo}} from [[Bar]]? This would be useful for keeping track of articles in a project for a list of pages. Technical 13 (talk) 15:44, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

No. This can be handled by a DynamicPageList extension, though. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:11, 23 May 2013 (UTC)