help or project page about magic words (including parser functions, variables, behavior switches) for accessing special features of the MediaWiki software from wikitext
Magic words are special codes you can use in wiki article text to access hidden features of the MediaWiki software, such as displaying dynamic information or changing how content behaves. They matter because they let wiki editors accomplish tasks like adding automatic dates, creating conditional content, or adjusting page formatting without needing to know programming code.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Magic words (including parser functions, variables, and behavior switches) are features of wiki markup that give instructions to Wikipedia's underlying MediaWiki software. For example, certain magic words are used to suppress or position the table of contents, disable indexing by external search engines, or produce output dynamically based on the current page or on user-defined conditional expressions. Some of these features are especially useful for templates.
This page is a quick reference for magic words. For more comprehensive information, refer to the main MediaWiki documentation:
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).