Help:Variables

Variables return information about the current page, wiki, or date.

Their syntax is similar to Help:Templates.

Date and time

The following variables return the current date and time in UTC.

Due to software and browser caching, these variables frequently show

when the page was cached rather than the current time.

Variable	Output	Description
`{{CURRENTYEAR}}`	2025	Year
`{{CURRENTMONTH}}`	10	Month (zero-padded number)
`{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}`	October	Month (name
`{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}`	October	Month (genitive form)
`{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}`	Oct	Month (abbreviation)
`{{CURRENTDAY}}`	9	Day of the month (unpadded number)
`{{CURRENTDAY2}}`	09	Day of the month (zero-padded number)
`{{CURRENTDOW}}`	4	Day of the week (unpadded number)
`{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}`	Thursday	Day of the week (name)
`{{CURRENTTIME}}`	00:28	Time (24-hour HH:mm format)
`{{CURRENTHOUR}}`	00	Hour (24-hour zero-padded number)
`{{CURRENTWEEK}}`	41	Week (number)
`{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}`	20251009002848	YYYYMMDDHHmmss timestamp

Revision variables return data about the latest edit to the current page,

even if viewing an older version of the page.

Variable	Output	Description
`{{SITENAME}}`	DeviWiki (ex WikiDevi)	The wiki's site name
`{{SERVER}}`	https://deviwiki.com	domain URL
`{{SERVERNAME}}`	deviwiki.com	domain name
`{{SCRIPTPATH}}`	/w	relative script path
`{{STYLEPATH}}`	/w/skins	relative style path
`{{CURRENTVERSION}}`	1.35.6	The wiki's MediaWiki version.
`{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}` `{{CONTENTLANG}}`	en en	The wiki's default interface language

Variable	Output	Description
`{{REVISIONID}}`	150782	Unique revision ID
`{{REVISIONDAY}}`	5	Day edit was made (unpadded number)
`{{REVISIONDAY2}}`	05	Day edit was made (zero-padded number)
`{{REVISIONMONTH}}`	06	Month edit was made (zero-padded number)
`{{REVISIONYEAR}}`	2016	Year edit was made
`{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}`	20160605030351	Timestamp as of time of edit
`{{REVISIONUSER}}`	imported>Omega	The username of the user who made the most recent edit to the page, or the current user when previewing an edit

Numbers returned by these variables normally contain separators (commas or spaces,

depending on the local language), but can return raw numbers with the ":R" flag

(for example, {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} → 30,779 and {{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}} → 30779).

Use "|R" for magic words that require a parameter like PAGESINCATEGORY

(for example {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help}} and {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Help|R}}).

Variable	Output	Description
`{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}`	30,779	Number of wiki pages.
`{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}`	13,565	Number of pages in content namespaces.
`{{NUMBEROFFILES}}`	8,427	Number of uploaded files.
`{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}`	175,318	Number of page edits.
`{{NUMBEROFVIEWS}}`	Template:NUMBEROFVIEWS	Number of page views. Usually useless on a wiki using caching.
`{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}`	60	Number of registered users.
`{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}`	1	Number of users in the administrator group.
`{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}`	0	Number of active users, based on the criteria used in Special:Statistics.
`{{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}}` `{{NUMINGROUP:groupname}}`	1 1 ({{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}} used here)	Number of users in a specific group.

Variable	Output	Description
`{{NAMESPACE}}`	Help	Name of the page's namespace
`{{SUBJECTSPACE}}` `{{ARTICLESPACE}}`	Help Help	Name of the associated content namespace
`{{TALKSPACE}}`	Help talk	Name of the associated talk namespace

The following are equivalents encoded for use in URLs (spaces replaced

with underscores and some characters percent-encoded):

These can take a page name and will return the namespace of the page name parameter, instead of the current page's:

Variable	Output	Description
`{{FULLPAGENAME}}`	Help:Variables	Namespace and page title.
`{{PAGENAME}}`	Variables	Page title.
`{{BASEPAGENAME}}`	Variables	Page title excluding the current subpage and namespace ("Title/foo" on "Title/foo/bar").
`{{SUBPAGENAME}}`	Variables	The subpage title ("foo" on "Title/foo").
`{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}`	Help:Variables	The namespace and title of the associated content page.
`{{TALKPAGENAME}}`	Help talk:Variables	The namespace and title of the associated talk page.

The following are equivalents encoded for use in MediaWiki URLs

(i.e. spaces replaced with underscores and some characters percent-encoded):

These can all allow specification of the page to be operated on, instead of just the current page: