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Contents 1 For heavens sake, just what is meant by Magic word??? 2 Defaultsort and talk pages 3 Meta:Help:Magic words authors and history 4 From Meta:Help talk:Magic words

[edit] For heavens sake, just what is meant by Magic word???

I sometimes wonder if the computer gurus on Wikipedia know how to speak English!! This article lists jillions of Magic words, but nowhere does it explain what a Magic word is. Please, someone, explain what a Magic word is and do so in plain English that a non-computer guru can understand. If it can be exemplified, give some examples ... also in plain English. - mbeychok 18:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

It is a word that gives the software a specific task to do, such as display the current date, hide the TOC, etc. inline with the text. ffm ^yes? 22:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I have copied the latest version from meta that makes that clear. Jon513 13:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Defaultsort and talk pages

I left the same question at META, hope to get a reply or fix for this at one place or another...

Is there a reason that the talk pages for articles that have a defaultsort don't "follow" the same sorting? Or, is thre a way to get the talk pages to follow the sorting for the article? For example, the article A Chinese Ghost Story II sorts as "Chinese Ghost Story II, A" but the talk page sorts as Talk:A Chinese Ghost Story II. Is there a need to put a defaultsort on the talk pages too? Hope not! By the by, I noticed this at [1]. SkierRMH 07:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meta:Help:Magic words authors and history

• 18:40, 2 December 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 88.108.202.174 to last version by Patrick)

• 18:26, 2 December 2006 User:88.108.202.174 (→Time)

• 18:27, 1 December 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - demonstrate that formatnum only works to the left)

• 16:44, 1 December 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - Padding does not seem to work for characters with a multi-character code, such as  , which would be useful with padleft for sorting tables with Javascript.)

• 15:51, 1 December 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting)

• 01:43, 26 November 2006 contribs)| m (→Time)

• 11:34, 25 November 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names and related info - Example with nested subpages)

• 14:03, 16 November 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - m)

• 23:46, 4 November 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - Changed one example. Added comment.)

• 11:46, 2 October 2006 contribs)| m (rv)

• 11:45, 2 October 2006 User:59.92.165.137

• 10:02, 30 September 2006 contribs)| (colon function -> parser function)

• 23:57, 27 September 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names and related info - precision)

• 17:53, 26 September 2006 contribs)| (→Page names and related info - New revision timestamps in SVN, r16659)

• 04:49, 10 September 2006 contribs)| (→Namespaces and URLs)

• 04:48, 10 September 2006 contribs)| (→Namespaces and URLs - anchorencode:)

• 04:45, 5 September 2006 User:203.34.143.18 (→Template modifiers)

• 15:36, 27 August 2006 User:24.98.121.212 (→Time - A curly bracket was misplaced, cuausing some code to break)

• 15:03, 27 August 2006 contribs)| (→Local time - see also #time:)

• 14:36, 25 August 2006 contribs)| (→Local time - Same as last edit)

• 14:34, 25 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - Is "ditto" a word you'd find in professional documentation???)

• 10:44, 25 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Local time - (All words [MW1.8+] ))

• 10:44, 25 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - UTC)

• 09:32, 25 August 2006 User:131.152.84.76 (sp)

• 22:45, 24 August 2006 contribs)| (→Local time)

• 13:09, 24 August 2006 User:217.87.73.98 (→Page names and related info - should be "last", not "next", right?)

• 02:44, 21 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - MW 1.8)

• 02:43, 21 August 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - {{padleft:}} and {{padright:}})

• 06:47, 15 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - changing | to :)

• 02:41, 15 August 2006 contribs)| (→Time - +{{CURRENTHOUR}})

• 06:25, 7 August 2006 contribs)| m (That would've been good if it linked to this page.)

• 06:24, 7 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - Remove page spec)

• 15:44, 5 August 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 216.93.201.22 to last version by Tim Starling)

• 15:36, 5 August 2006 User:216.93.201.22 (== "Cosmical concoction" ==)

• 12:12, 17 July 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions - language-dependent, not really project dependent except maybe in a confusing sense)

• 13:06, 13 July 2006 contribs)| m (I don't think CURRENTDAY2 worked in MW1.5.0, so I change this to MW1.6+ (and add a missing paranthesis)

• 17:01, 10 July 2006 contribs)| (→Size - Manualthumb)

• 00:35, 10 July 2006 contribs)| m (rm long deag langs= cruft)

• 00:31, 10 July 2006 contribs)| (restore old inline "statistics" section, no template "enabled" on w:en:, also not listed as REQUIRED canonical handbook template)

• 00:15, 10 July 2006 contribs)| (→Namespaces and URLs - all "x y @" showing that *urle is pointless)

• 00:04, 10 July 2006 contribs)| (→Namespaces and URLs - no more urlencoded leading spaces, trim that gaining some pixels)

• 23:56, 9 July 2006 contribs)| (→Namespaces and URLs - okay, squeezed a query example in, ugky output, but not horrible)

• 23:31, 9 July 2006 contribs)| (rv to Patrick's, adding all details for *url creates horrible output for width about 800)

• 18:40, 8 July 2006 contribs)| (→Namespaces and URLs - Mention parameters for localurl and fullurl)

• 09:19, 8 July 2006 contribs)| (→Statistics)

• 09:15, 8 July 2006 contribs)| (→Statistics)

• 07:24, 5 July 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - More exciting example: speed of light in a vacuum)

• 07:22, 5 July 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting)

• 07:22, 5 July 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - formatnum:)

• 00:36, 4 July 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - add variable allowing to enable displaytitle)

• 23:24, 3 July 2006 contribs)| (→Statistics - PAGESINNS R.I.P.)

• 23:20, 3 July 2006 contribs)| (→Statistics)

• 16:12, 3 July 2006 contribs)| (→Statistics)

• 16:11, 3 July 2006 contribs)| (→Statistics - updated)

• 08:51, 30 June 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions - Genitive form)

• 01:16, 28 June 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic)

• 16:49, 19 June 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - s/Local/Native/)

• 16:46, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names and related info - Help:Link#Subpage_feature)

• 16:37, 19 June 2006 contribs)| (→Page names and related info - Indeed, various demo pages under Help:Link)

• 12:40, 19 June 2006 contribs)| (→Page names and related info - warning on {{SUBPAGENAME}} & {{BASEPAGENAME}} that subpages need to be enabled in that namespace)

• 08:34, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names and related info)

• 08:33, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names and related info - arrange more logically)

• 08:28, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic)

• 08:22, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - h3 (aesthetical reasons))

• 08:18, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Image modifiers - reinsert)

• 08:17, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - move down between colon functions and image modifiers)

• 08:16, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Namespaces and URLs - use nbsp instead of sp (this is an intentional lie))

• 08:13, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - MW1.7+)

• 08:12, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - sort alphabetically)

• 08:11, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - add language here (weak motivation, but it is a colon function))

• 08:09, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - move language to colon functions)

• 08:07, 19 June 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - LOL, no, use 100%)

• 08:06, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - rm width)

• 08:05, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Colon functions)

• 08:04, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - move down)

• 08:03, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Locations, and URLs - fix title)

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• 07:59, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - split)

• 07:53, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - reinsert)

• 07:53, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Statistics - mobe as h3 to new h2)

• 07:52, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - h3 in new h2)

• 07:50, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic - h3)

• 07:49, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions - h3)

• 07:47, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Statistics - add width hint for my more stupid browser()

• 07:44, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Statistics - link to main article)

• 07:43, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Statistics - rm topics kept in miscellany)

• 07:41, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - rm topics moved to new section)

• 07:38, 19 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Image modifiers - copy miscellany (preparing split))

• 03:26, 19 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany)

• 20:49, 17 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 20:47, 17 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - h:mwg etc.)

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• 20:42, 17 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany)

• 20:37, 17 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany)

• 20:30, 17 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - use trackable h:mwg)

• 13:45, 17 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - {{NUMBEROFADMINS}})

• 06:24, 15 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany)

• 06:22, 15 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - use short form for examples (column width issue))

• 03:10, 15 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} also supports raw modifier)

• 02:48, 15 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - add new {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}})

• 01:59, 15 June 2006 contribs)| (→More magic - add __NOGALLERY__)

• 02:18, 12 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - add new {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}})

• 20:33, 7 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - Updated to convention)

• 20:30, 7 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - Updated description based on source. Still unsure.)

• 14:38, 7 June 2006 contribs)| (→Time - CURRENTWEEK Explanation from Wikipedia)

• 10:41, 6 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - s/nl/da/ (sorry, coluimn width), add DIRMARK)

• 09:51, 6 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - or English (it's not THE language of Meta, only A language))

• 09:49, 6 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Time)

• 09:37, 6 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - INT explanation was plain wrong, next attempt)

• 09:30, 6 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - lc colon functions)

• 09:28, 6 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - lower case for colon functions)

• 15:00, 1 June 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - {{#language:}})

• 00:59, 25 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - oops)

• 00:57, 25 May 2006 contribs)| (→Time - {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} is for MW1.7+)

• 00:56, 25 May 2006 contribs)| (→Time - add the new {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}})

• 18:56, 21 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions - trim CS example again (it clobbers the complete table layout))

• 18:48, 21 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions - hardcore trimming (word's too long))

• 18:43, 21 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions - add genitive here (actually anything can be tuned per project, does that section make sense ?))

• 18:41, 21 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - move CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN to Patrick's new section)

• 18:31, 21 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions - move bug number to text, s/bugzilla/mediazilla/)

• 18:27, 21 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - empty cell to dummy cell for unclear DISPLAYTITLE returning nothing)

• 11:41, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions - plural)

• 11:23, 20 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 11:23, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 11:20, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 11:16, 20 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 11:13, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 10:58, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions - distinguish demonstrating from telling how it works)

• 10:56, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 10:54, 20 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 10:53, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions)

• 10:28, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Project-dependent word conversions - :cs:Šablona:Wikivar/GRAMMAR.)

• 10:19, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany)

• 10:18, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany)

• 10:17, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany)

• 10:00, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (rv my last edit; Plural is a project dependent switch function. Grammar is also project dependent, and can be applied to predefined words only.)

• 09:32, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - rm example of plural with 3rd parameter, is ignored)

• 09:30, 20 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany)

• 09:28, 20 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - Plural:''count'' seems to work like #ifexpr:''count''=1.)

• 23:17, 19 May 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - urlencode)

• 12:40, 19 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Image Modifiers)

• 12:11, 18 May 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - URLENCODE)

• 11:56, 18 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Table of contents - 79%)

• 11:55, 18 May 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic - 79%)

• 11:54, 18 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting)

• 11:54, 18 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - rv (wrong section))

• 11:52, 18 May 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - temp. save)

• 03:00, 17 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany)

• 03:00, 17 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - trim "numberofpages" explanation adding "R" variant)

• 02:39, 17 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} and {{CURRENTVERSION}} now live)

• 03:57, 16 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - "basepagename" moved as is near to "subpagename")

• 19:58, 15 May 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - {{BASEPAGENAME}})

• 18:28, 15 May 2006 User:138.88.126.197 (→Time)

• 18:26, 15 May 2006 User:138.88.126.197 (→Time)

• 20:15, 14 May 2006 User:64.162.10.116 (→Page names, locations, and URLs - ok, seems to be a bug)

• 20:11, 14 May 2006 User:64.162.10.116 (→Page names, locations, and URLs - dur)

• 22:09, 13 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany)

• 22:09, 13 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - CURRENTVERSION and NUMBEROFPAGES in SVN)

• 21:11, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Time - 23:59, no am/pm)

• 21:10, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Time - Clarify expected results)

• 21:01, 11 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Time)

• 21:00, 11 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Time)

• 20:58, 11 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - CURRENTWEEK 54 now explained on Help:Variable (thanks))

• 21:19, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - show difference "int:" vs. "MediaWiki:")

• 21:15, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - s/XYZ/xyz/ everywhere, better readable)

• 21:12, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - int doesn't swap the priority, it changes the errort handliing)

• 20:59, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - use UTC also as example for MediaWiki)

• 20:46, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - the searxh doesn't try "article" if "template" not found)

• 20:29, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - Clarify that bare colon is no template modifier)

• 20:20, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - bare colon is a namespace prefix)

• 09:59, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers)

• 09:48, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers)

• 09:46, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers)

• 09:39, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - add naked colon as potential modifier (not verified))

• 09:38, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - ditto)

• 09:36, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - "message" refers to old limited use of templates)

• 09:34, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers)

• 09:26, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - {{int:edit}} is a known case)

• 09:21, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - no italics in intro (later there should be a pointer to Help:Colon function with further details and examples))

• 09:18, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - rm pointless "word" column, all examples use XYZ)

• 09:16, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - add message twice in the intro to lay the grounds for the revised "subst" entry at the end)

• 09:11, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - s/template/message/ Help:Substitution explains that this also works for magic words etc.)

• 09:08, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - Not yet verified, but it reflects what the section said.)

• 05:28, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - See Help:Substitution.)

• 00:52, 6 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Table of contents - _TOC_ overrides _NOTOC_ (IIRC))

• 00:49, 6 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - fix mw link)

• 00:44, 6 May 2006 contribs)| (→Time - mark CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN as unclear, where is it actually used?)

• 00:10, 6 May 2006 contribs)| (→See also - trim (specific link now at the top of each section))

• 00:07, 6 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - trim)

• 00:01, 6 May 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - trim)

• 23:48, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - link to languageCs.php for grammar)

• 23:27, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - link languageRu.php)

• 23:18, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Image Modifiers - Better link to WP:EIS for trhe moment)

• 23:14, 5 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Size)

• 23:08, 5 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Size)

• 23:07, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Position - link to Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files')

• 23:05, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Size - link to Help:Image)

• 22:52, 5 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Table of contents - link to Help:Section)

• 22:50, 5 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting)

• 22:50, 5 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs)

• 22:49, 5 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - Link colon functions)

• 22:47, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - Link to H:V)

• 22:46, 5 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - Link to H:V)

• 20:37, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (Revert to revision 343524 using popups)

• 20:32, 5 May 2006 User:81.157.152.122

• 15:14, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - Link mw:Help)

• 11:40, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (links to SVN in case of an unclear-status)

• 11:02, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→More magic - NEWSECTIONLINK)

• 02:40, 2 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - DISPLAYTITLE (doesn't work in preview?))

• 02:28, 2 May 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - add four missing ARTICLExyz)

• 02:20, 2 May 2006 contribs)| m (No English necessary, it has no effect yet)

• 02:13, 2 May 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic - __NEWSECTIONLINK__ not yet active?)

• 02:11, 2 May 2006 contribs)| (→More magic - no clue what it does: test)

• 01:37, 2 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - Typo)

• 23:44, 1 May 2006 contribs)| m (s/cz;/:cs:/ - it's the colon, not the Z)

• 23:32, 1 May 2006 contribs)| m (Fix link not working on w:en:)

• 23:26, 1 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - added R modifier)

• 22:05, 1 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - IIRC Subpagename was 1.6, not 1.5 (?))

• 09:44, 1 May 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - MW1.7a -> MW1.7+)

• 19:33, 30 April 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - cz: → cs:)

• 19:33, 30 April 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - cz: → cs:)

• 19:32, 30 April 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} now enabled at Wikimedia projects)

• 04:02, 29 April 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} (SVN trunk))

• 05:17, 26 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Position - needs 100% for wide window (but class=wikitable doesn't have that))

• 04:59, 26 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Position - centre to left column)

• 04:55, 26 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Size - other names in left column - is the footer template now okay with 640? (no probs here))

• 10:46, 25 April 2006 contribs)| (tried it at 640x480, it looked alright (table shrunk to fit width); oddly the transcluded page at the very bottom caused a horizontal scrollbar to appear)

• 09:07, 25 April 2006 contribs)| m (test it with about 700px, the five critical columns are {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}, {{SUBJECTPAGENAMEE}}, Help_talk:Magic_words, the full URL, and NAMESPACE+PAGENAME (for 800 it's okay - maybe join it again))

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• 05:06, 25 April 2006 contribs)| (trim again for narrow browser window)

• 06:07, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (wikitable, styling)

• 06:03, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - reformat this)

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• 05:26, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - FULLPAGENAME not in 1.5.7 and don't know when it appeared)

• 11:47, 18 April 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - rm #rand:)

• 19:14, 17 April 2006 User:82.46.154.93 (→Formatting - bug in example)

• 21:50, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - sigh, backwards compatibility can be a pain)

• 21:47, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs)

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• 21:43, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Table of contents - 78% is good enough)

• 21:42, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic - 78% is good enough)

• 21:42, 13 April 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - rm 75%, reinsert formatting on top catching the floating sidebar)

• 21:38, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - move that up, small enough to be shown with the sidebar)

• 21:32, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - finish this round of trimming)

• 21:27, 13 April 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - tune ouput for narrow browser window)

• 21:05, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - updated names of parser functions)

• 20:59, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - reinsert <br />)

• 20:55, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - extracted new stuff into auxiliary table (too wide columns for narrow windows))

• 20:15, 13 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs)

• 20:07, 13 April 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - some new magic words)

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• 15:02, 4 April 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - added MagicWord.php)

• 08:58, 4 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - fullurl far too wide for small browser windows, s/code/small/ in two critical cells)

• 08:54, 4 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - foo (only cs:} doesn't work on Wikipedia, replaced by cz)

• 00:05, 4 April 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - manual br's bad, screws up formatting on large displays; restore dual examples)

• 00:02, 4 April 2006 contribs)| (→Time - formatting)

• 00:01, 4 April 2006 contribs)| (→Formatting - formatting)

• 00:00, 4 April 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - formatting)

• 23:45, 3 April 2006 contribs)| (rvt - yes we do have a cs =))

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• 07:43, 3 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - added new SUBPAGENAMEE)

• 07:40, 3 April 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - updated URL (Sourceforge to subversion))

• 05:05, 3 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - more interesting English plural example)

• 04:55, 3 April 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - too wide table screwed up complete help page)

• 03:30, 3 April 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic - (try to) trim abbreviation)

• 02:28, 1 April 2006 contribs)| m (→More magic - reorder to get logical/readable info sequence)

• 20:05, 31 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - add missing colon)

• 03:44, 31 March 2006 contribs)| (→Time - add CURRENTDAY2)

• 03:42, 31 March 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - expand grammar and plural explanations)

• 20:21, 30 March 2006 User:84.142.43.102 (→See also)

• 16:45, 28 March 2006 contribs)| (→Size - width x height was a hallucination, removed)

• 13:02, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - better source (mentions "raw"))

• 12:01, 28 March 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - unclear plural)

• 11:57, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Position - br like everywhere)

• 11:55, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Size - unclear manualthumb)

• 11:53, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - unclear raw)

• 11:45, 28 March 2006 contribs)| (→Size - unclear manualthumb added)

• 11:20, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - Special:Captcha issue, please activate link)

• 08:24, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - examples with two words)

• 08:13, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Time - insert "formatting" above URLs (often used together))

• 08:10, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Formatting - see talk page - split joined tables again)

• 08:06, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Table of contents - clear left)

• 08:02, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - curly braces everywhere, why not also here)

• 07:57, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Template modifiers - add raw: here)

• 07:39, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellany - move "raw" to "msg" (see talk page))

• 07:37, 28 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Image Modifiers - trimmed)

• 07:29, 28 March 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - show that ...urle is rarely required)

• 07:14, 28 March 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - shrink widest columns)

• 20:56, 27 March 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 85.100.228.20 to last version by Omniplex)

• 20:22, 27 March 2006 User:85.100.228.20

• 07:16, 27 March 2006 contribs)| (subst:Prettytable (doesn't work as expected on Wikipedia))

• 06:52, 27 March 2006 contribs)| (→Miscellany - added unclear "raw:", see Help talk:Magic words)

• 02:46, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Miscellany - #redirect works only at top of page)

• 02:33, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Formatting - move bogus #redirect to "misc.")

• 02:30, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Misc. - add (incomplete) I18N example "grammar" here)

• 02:28, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Internationalization - if you insist on "miscellany" let's add the obscure "grammar" there)

• 02:25, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Page names, locations, and URLs - reinsert REVISIONID, added "MW 1.5+" to SUBPAGENAME (?))

• 02:22, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Misc. - {{REVISIONID}} really is the id. for the current page in diffs (= belongs to chapter with FULLPAGENAME), check it out in the history)

• 02:17, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Formatting - add __MAGIC__ stuff here (#redirect is admittedly dubious))

• 02:13, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Misc. - the __MAGIC__ stuff fits below ToC under formatting)

• 02:03, 27 March 2006 User:217.251.172.172 (→Page names, locations, and URLs - added missing FULLPAGENAME)

• 19:50, 26 March 2006 contribs)| (Several sections were merged into unrelated sections, moved them to "Misc.")

• 19:32, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Image Modifiers - Move caption blurb to related subsection)

• 19:14, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Template modifiers - Bogus term "meta template" removed)

• 19:12, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Formatting - reinsaert related "template modifiers" (can float with huge navbox))

• 19:09, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Template modifiers - split "grammar" into separate section, it's no template modifier)

• 19:02, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Page names, locations, and URLs - URL-friendly is percent encoded, e.g. ! = %21 shown later)

• 18:58, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Page names, locations, and URLs - NS is a bit more flexible)

• 18:41, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Image Modifiers - Stick to consistent italics for modifiers in the text)

• 18:27, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Image Modifiers - terminology, s/option/modifier/)

• 18:24, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Image Modifiers - get rid of "misc.")

• 18:19, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Position - use no position for inline images)

• 18:08, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Size - explain scale vs. stretch for px)

• 17:44, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Misc. - "framed" is an alternative to "thumb", move it)

• 17:41, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Page names, locations, and URLs - reinsert related stuff from former "statistics")

• 17:39, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Statistics - remaining stuff belongs to URL)

• 17:37, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Time - add "number of" stuff depending on time of usage)

• 17:35, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Statistics - move "number of" stuff to "time" (= depending on time of usage))

• 17:30, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Table of contents - merged related "misc", #REDIRECT is a bit obscure here)

• 17:28, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Miscellaneous - join with related ToC stuff (1 of 2))

• 17:26, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Table of contents - allow join with next section)

• 17:23, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Formatting - reinsert trimmed "misc" here (can float with huge navbox))

• 17:14, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Miscellaneous - prepare move to top (can float with huge navbox))

• 17:05, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Table of contents - rm forced break (next section does this now))

• 17:05, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Time - reinsert "formatting" (can float with navbox))

• 17:03, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Formatting - move secrion near top (small enough to float with monstrous navbox))

• 17:00, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Table of contents - navbox garbles following sections, break it here)

• 16:54, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Statistics - merged "installation info" here (2 of 2))

• 16:52, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Installation information - join with statistics (1 of 2))

• 16:48, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Table of contents - insert NOEDITSECTION (2 of 2))

• 16:45, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→Miscellaneous - merged "ne effect" (2 of 2), move NOEDITSECTION to ToC stuff (1 of 2))

• 16:37, 26 March 2006 User:149.225.10.79 (→No effect - join START with previous section where we have END (1 of 2))

• 00:44, 25 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Miscellaneous - typo)

• 00:41, 25 March 2006 contribs)| (→Template modifiers - added and expanded documentation)

• 00:25, 25 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Page names, locations, and URLs - corrected terms)

• 00:24, 25 March 2006 contribs)| (→Page names, locations, and URLs - Added and expanded documentation)

• 00:13, 25 March 2006 contribs)| (→Time - Documented {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}})

• 23:57, 24 March 2006 contribs)| (→Time - expanded documentation)

• 23:55, 24 March 2006 contribs)| (Extensively overhauled (table format, organisation by groups, more user-friendly, better documentation))

• 23:02, 16 March 2006 User:149.225.70.36 (rvv)

• 21:57, 16 March 2006 User:85.99.48.129

• 00:05, 6 March 2006 contribs)| m (→SUBPAGENAME)

• 00:05, 6 March 2006 contribs)| (→Since v1.5 - {{SUBPAGENAME}})

• 17:05, 25 February 2006 User:84.156.120.141 (→<nowiki>PAGENAMEE</nowiki> - US-ASCII)

• 09:53, 22 February 2006 User:195.227.103.146 (→<nowiki>SUBST <- Typo corrected</nowiki>)

• 00:27, 18 February 2006 User:72.17.217.66 (→<nowiki>PAGENAMEE</nowiki> - -- though I'm not positive.)

• 11:56, 17 February 2006 contribs)| (→<nowiki>NS:</nowiki>)

• 11:55, 17 February 2006 contribs)| (→<nowiki>INT:</nowiki> - works the same as "MediaWiki:".)

• 11:42, 17 February 2006 contribs)| (==See also==)

• 11:19, 17 February 2006 contribs)| (→Since v1.5)

• 19:10, 16 February 2006 contribs)| (→Since v1.5 - not yet documented magic words)

• 08:49, 10 February 2006 User:203.213.7.130 (→FULLURL:, FULLURLE:)

• 08:44, 10 February 2006 User:203.213.7.130 (→FULLURL:, FULLURLE:)

• 21:03, 1 February 2006 User:149.39.208.10 (→NUMBEROFFILES - edited by mistake.)

• 21:03, 1 February 2006 User:149.39.208.10 (→NUMBEROFFILES)

• 03:47, 1 February 2006 contribs)| (→<nowiki>SUBST:</nowiki> - notes)

• 01:03, 31 January 2006 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>PAGENAMEE</nowiki>)

• 00:37, 31 January 2006 contribs)| m (→Image Modifiers)

• 00:35, 31 January 2006 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>thumbnail</nowiki>)

• 09:24, 20 January 2006 User:217.161.104.2 (→<nowiki>thumbnail</nowiki>)

• 06:23, 10 January 2006 contribs)| (→<nowiki>MSG:</nowiki>)

• 07:14, 3 January 2006 User:67.165.217.42 (Style)

• 09:42, 31 December 2005 User:195.175.37.71 (→<nowiki>framed</nowiki>)

• 09:40, 31 December 2005 User:195.175.37.71 (→<nowiki>framed</nowiki>)

• 09:39, 31 December 2005 User:195.175.37.71 (→<nowiki>framed</nowiki>)

• 21:58, 19 December 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>CURRENTDOW</nowiki>)

• 21:31, 19 December 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>CURRENTDOW</nowiki>)

• 21:28, 19 December 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>CURRENTWEEK</nowiki>)

• 14:04, 17 December 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 59.144.22.204 to last version by Xaosflux)

• 13:55, 17 December 2005 User:59.144.22.204 (→<nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki>)

• 05:05, 25 November 2005 contribs)| (nowiki stub marker)

• 03:41, 25 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed capitalization of template name.)

• 03:43, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)

• 16:30, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>SERVER</nowiki>)

• 16:28, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>thumbnail</nowiki>)

• 16:26, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>MSG:</nowiki>)

• 16:24, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>MSG:</nowiki>)

• 13:25, 21 October 2005 contribs)| (rv edits by 81.214.98.242 to last ver by Mormegil; spam links)

• 13:19, 21 October 2005 User:81.214.98.242

• 13:29, 23 September 2005 contribs)| (→Since v1.5 - +FULLURL(E):)

• 22:06, 10 September 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>__START__</nowiki>)

• 22:02, 10 September 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>__END__</nowiki>)

• 22:51, 8 September 2005 contribs)| (→NUMBEROFFILES - Friendlier description)

• 22:49, 8 September 2005 contribs)| (No longer a stub)

• 22:21, 8 September 2005 contribs)| (→Since 1.5alpha1)

• 12:25, 30 August 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>GRAMMAR:</nowiki> - nonsense, grammar: is for inflected languages)

• 21:45, 29 August 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>GRAMMAR:</nowiki>)

• 21:43, 29 August 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>SUBST:</nowiki>)

• 21:09, 28 August 2005 contribs)| m (+ lower bar)

• 22:09, 23 August 2005 contribs)| (The use of msg has an effect when a template name clashes with a magic word. For example, if <nowiki>Template:CURRENTMONTHNAME</nowiki> contained "Test", then <nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}</nowiki)

• 14:38, 18 August 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>LOCALURL:</nowiki>)

• 14:36, 18 August 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>LOCALURLE:</nowiki>)

• 14:34, 18 August 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>LOCALURLE:</nowiki> - use link with space for example)

• 14:32, 18 August 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>LOCALURL:</nowiki>)

• 14:30, 18 August 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki>LOCALURL:</nowiki> - clarified usage)

• 10:34, 18 August 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>MSGNW:</nowiki> - Made things more clear.)

• 21:23, 12 August 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki>)

• 04:02, 12 August 2005 User:70.13.13.5 (→<nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki>)

• 19:40, 4 August 2005 User:208.35.208.20 (→<nowiki>$1px</nowiki>)

• 19:40, 4 August 2005 User:208.35.208.20 (→<nowiki>$1px</nowiki>)

• 19:39, 4 August 2005 User:208.35.208.20 (→<nowiki>$1px</nowiki>)

• 22:54, 17 July 2005 User:69.162.151.100 (deleted pornographic spam)

• 21:52, 17 July 2005 User:81.214.161.234

• 15:56, 16 July 2005 User:82.225.122.75

• 18:34, 10 July 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>MSG:</nowiki> - changed "affect" to "effect")

• 03:25, 30 June 2005 User:218.102.99.56 (→<nowiki>__NOTITLECONVERT__</nowiki>)

• 03:23, 30 June 2005 User:218.102.99.56 (→<nowiki>__NOCONTENTCONVERT__</nowiki>)

• 22:42, 27 June 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>framed</nowiki>)

• 22:42, 27 June 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki>center</nowiki>)

• 21:52, 27 June 2005 contribs)| ("magic words" (keywords))

• 17:25, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (→CURRENTMONTHABBREV)

• 17:22, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (→CURRENTMONTHABBREV)

• 17:21, 27 June 2005 contribs)|

• 23:59, 26 April 2005 contribs)|

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