Help:Magic words

In general, there are three types of magic words:

The software generally interprets magic words in the following way.

{{Magic}} words compared to {{template}}:

Note: The magic words above can also take a parameter, in order to parse values on a page other than the current page. A colon ( : ) is used to pass the parameter, rather than a pipe ( | ) that is used in templates, like {{MAGICWORD:value}}. For example, returns on any page. See for more details of parser functions.

To output numbers without comma separators (for example, as "123456789" rather than "123,456,789"), append the parameter |R.

{{formatnum:unformatted_number}}
{{formatnum:formatted_num |R}}

{{padleft:xyz|length|padstr}}
{{padright:xyz|length|padstr}}

{{#time:d F Y|date|langcode}}

" http: " etc.), to page name. The query parameter is optional.

If, in these conditional functions, empty unnamed parameters are to be parsed as empty rather than as text (i.e. as empty rather than as the text "{{{1}}}", "{{{2}}}", etc.), they will require trailing pipes (i.e. {{{1|}}}, {{{2|}}}, etc., rather than {{{1}}}, {{{2}}}, etc.).

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