Help:Magic words

Magic words are strings of text from MediaWiki. Typing one of the switches will yield the following results as stated on its description.

Behavior switches

Switch	Description
__TOC__	Places page's table of contents (TOC) at the word's position.
__FORCETOC__	Forces the TOC to appear in its default position, even when there are fewer than four headings. Can be used anywhere on a page. This magic word does not work in skins that present the table of contents outside the article content e.g. the default Vector 2022 skin.
__NOTOC__	Suppresses the appearance of the page's TOC. Can be used anywhere on a page.
__NOEDITSECTION__	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 tag such as heading rather than with the usual wiki equals-signs syntax (e.g. == heading ==).
__ARCHIVEDTALK__	Hides "Reply" button
__NEWSECTIONLINK__	On non-talk pages, adds a "New section" link as a means to add a new section to the page.
__NONEWSECTIONLINK__	Removes the "Add topic" link (the add-new-section link) on talk pages.
__NOGALLERY__	Replaces thumbnails on a category page with normal links.
__HIDDENCAT__	Makes a category hidden when included on that category's page.
__INDEX__	Instructs search engines to index the page.
__NOINDEX__	Instructs search engines not to index the page. See Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing.
__STATICREDIRECT__	Prevents the link on a 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).
__DISAMBIG__	Marks a page as a disambiguation page.
{{DISPLAYTITLE:title}}	Used to amend the displayed form of the page's title.
{{DEFAULTSORT:sortkey}}	Sets the default key (the index) under which the page is categorised.

Variables

Page name variable	Output	Description
{{FULLPAGENAME}}	Help:Magic words	Canonical page name. Title line. Title unless letter-case is altered with {{DISPLAYTITLE}}.
{{PAGENAME}}	Magic words	Title line excluding namespace.
{{BASEPAGENAME}}	Magic words	Title of parent page, excluding namespace.
{{ROOTPAGENAME}}	Magic words	Title of topmost parent (before all subpages), excluding namespace.
{{ARTICLEPAGENAME}}	Help:Magic words	Title of the subject page associated with the current page. These are useful on talk pages (but see note about Category talk pages).
{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}	Help:Magic words
{{TALKPAGENAME}}	Help talk:Magic words	Title of the talk page associated with the current page. Useful on subject pages.
{{NAMESPACENUMBER}}	12	Number of the current page's namespace.
{{NAMESPACE}}	Help	Namespace of the title.
{{ARTICLESPACE}}	Help	On a talk page, the namespace part of the title of the associated subject page.
{{SUBJECTSPACE}}	Help
{{TALKSPACE}}	Help talk	Namespace of the talk page associated with the current page.

See also

• mw:Help:Magic words