Magic Words look like template calls (surround by double curly braces) but most have no parameters and return a system variable value. Traditionally they are always typed in all-caps to make them easy to see in the template code, but they are actually case-insensitive.
Magic Word | Meaning | Example |
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{{PAGENAME}} | Returns the title of the current wiki page, without any leading namespace: | Magic Words |
{{PAGENAMEE}} | Returns the url-encoded title of the current wiki page, without any leading namespace: | Magic_Words |
{{NAMESPACE}} | Returns the url-encoded namespace portion of the current wiki page title (without the colon) | Wiki |
{{ARTICLES|category}} (proposed) | Returns the number of articles in a given category, or the total number of articles in the wikibase, not including category pages. | ARTICLES |
{{PAGES|category}} (proposed) | Returns the total number of pages in a given category, or the total number of pages in the wikibase, including category pages. | PAGES |