Help talk:Magic words

{{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)

+1 for feature request -- sir KitKat 78.21.21.68 07:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

_NOEDITSECTION_ on every page?

Hey there, I am using Mediawiki and I have problems with partly editing of pages, so I want to disable the "edit section" Button for the whole wiki. Is this possible?

If there was such a thing, I would think it would be listed on Manual:Configuration settings (alphabetical), which it is not. However, depending on which version of MediaWiki you are running you could just set the class (use to be .editsection but was recently renamed .mw-editsection on some wikis like en.wikipedia) for to display: none; in your MediaWiki:Common.css -- Technical 13 (talk) 12:48, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

I'd like to be able to do this too

I don't understand the answer saying that you set \ display: none; \ - where would you set that?

Isn't there a switch you can set in LocalSettings.php to change the behaviour so that, by default, all sections are displayed without a edit -- so you'd, instead, need to specify __EDITSECTION__ if you wanted a particular section to display an edit.

Fustbariclation (talk) 08:32, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

__DISAMBIG__

Could someone please add the necessary documentation for __DISAMBIG__ (Extension:Disambiguator) here and, if you could be so kind, also at en:Wikipedia:Magic words? Thank you. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

• I was under the impression that this page was reserved for core (or at least ships with core extension) magic words and I don't remember seeing Extension:Disambiguator being in that package. Is this going to be a new inclusion in the default package? Technical 13 (talk) 10:26, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
  • When I look up magic words on the EN Wikipedia, I often end up looking at Help:Magic words here on MediaWiki, because that page is linked there, e.g. at en:Help:Magic words. My impression, which may well be wrong, is that MediaWiki documents the MediaWiki software. If that is not so, feel free to remove the entry about __DISAMBIGUATE__ again; in that case, I wonder whether it would be better to remove the mentioned link to MediaWiki at "en:Help:Magic words" as well. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:21, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Number of files in Articles

Hi, Is there any way to be able to count the number of files (In my case: Images) shown in article/category? In other words, I want to have the number of occurrence of any [[file:...]] in given article.

TNX --82.80.126.166 13:01, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Fullurle

The magic word {{fullurle:}} is not described in this page, and I honestly don't know the difference between that and {{fullurl:}}. Cainamarques (talk) 21:32, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Displaying the article's author on the page

Is there any magic word for that? For example {{REVISIONUSER}} displays the username/IP of the last user, who edited the article. How to display the username/IP of the user, who created the article?--185.31.48.30 09:45, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

No. That would be an expensive operation, as MediaWiki should find the first revision of the current page. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:53, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Adding translatable docu to such a page is horrifying

This diff together with translate tags etc. causes fatals, so I gave up. Sorry for this. The standard nonsense error message "Fatal exception of MediaWiki exception" or what this is called will probably not help digging into the issue. --[[kgh]] (talk) 22:32, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

anchorencode

Did somebody change anchorencode ?

It now seems to strip italic markup, rather than encode it:

{{anchorencode:Glasgow Digital Library, ''Omond House''}} -> Glasgow_Digital_Library.2C_Omond_House

It just means that on en-wp, we have to clean up a few hundred articles where en:template:SfnRef (which uses anchorencode to generate anchors in footnotes) has anchors that are generated from italicised words. --RexxS (talk) 16:30, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Variables that affect behaviour

Why are {{DISPLAYTITLE:title}} and {{DEFAULTSORT:sortkey}} listed under Variables when they do not "return information about the current page, wiki, or date"? Surely, since they "control the layout or behavior of the page", they should be listed at Behavior switches. This has come up at w:en:Help talk:Magic words#Three "behavior switches" that aren't. --Redrose64 (talk; at English Wikipedia) 10:14, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

I surmise it's because "switches" have a special __FORMAT__ that doesn't accommodate parameters, whereas DISPLAYTITLE: and DEFAULTSORT: require them. Of the "variables" listed on this Help page, those that take parameters use them only to specify the object about which the "variable" should return information. As DISPLAYTITLE: and DEFAULTSORT: use parameters to set environmental states rather than report them, they are certainly a special case. Maybe they (along with NOEXTERNALLANGLINKS:) should be described as "environment variables", "behavior variables", or "behavior functions", and be placed in their own section or subsection in the page.

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My suggestion at this point would be to rename the current "Behavior switches" section to "Behavior settings", move the current content of that section into a subsection called "Behavior switches", and add a second subsection called "Behavior functions" where DISPLAYTITLE:, DEFAULTSORT:, and NOEXTERNALLANGLINKS: are explained. I would also suggest that the list of "general types of magic words" in the lede be rewritten accordingly, mentioning the differences in effect, as well as in format, of the various kinds of magic words.

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As an aside, I note that the keywords called "variables" on this Help page would probably be more accurately described as "functions", as they are used to return values that report some aspect of the environment, rather than to store arbitrarily-assigned values. But I guess that's a whole 'nother ball o' wax. — Jaydiem (talk) 16:56, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Pages in category + sub categories

Is there a deeper penetrating {{Pagesincategory that will also count the pages in the subcategories? That would be wonderful. Kmath87 (talk) 22:02, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

What is the opposite of 21010?

If I know the page ID number, how do I find the page?

I see that, if I have the page name, the 21010 will give me the number, I'd just like to do it the other way around.

197.155.4.118 09:08, 20 August 2014 (UTC)