Help talk:Magic words

__NEWSECTIONLINK__ or alternative in 1.6.10?
is there any alternative to __NEWSECTIONLINK__ or in 1.6.10?

PAGESINCATEGORY doesn't work on my site.
I cannot seem to get the PAGESINCATEGORY magic word to work. My wiki treats it like its a Template.

Is there a setting that needs to be set somewhere to make it work? My Wiki Version is 1.13.1

I note that it works here: =

Q/ doesn't work on my wiki. You'v got any idea ?
 * A/ Needs MW 1.14++

TOC - hide contents
is there a possibility to hide the content at starting up the page? i saw that it is made with a nice little java script.

NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS
Hi - can anyone tell me how NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS (= ) is defined? And can it be adjusted in e.g. LocalSettings? --Robinson Weijman 08:51, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * From what can be gathered in Release notes/1.15, it "is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses the active users data from site_stats." Special:Statistics indicates that it is registered users who have performed an action in the last 30 days. Hamilton Abreu 13:50, 15 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Aha, thanks Hamilton - very useful. --Robinson Weijman 12:53, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

can someone get #tag to work with the include tags?
I know #tag is supposed to work for extension XML tags, but can someone add support for, , , and  ? Thanks. Manishearth 02:21, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * . noinclude etc aren't handled the same way as other XML tags. Happy ‑ melon 18:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

CURRENTTIME family not affected by prefernces
No matter what I set my user preferences to, the CURRENTTIME family of magic words always seems to return UTC; both here and on my 1.15.1 local installation.

Is this a bug, a misdocumentation, or am I just doing it wrong? :) --WeaverThree 18:52, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Page content does not change based on user preferences like that. It would invalidate cache horribly. Splarka 07:54, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I realized that after I went in there to see if I could "fix" it :). The only way it even seems possible would be if the parser left a marker in the output that say the skin code search-and-replaced with the proper value (since monobook.php appears to use user preference when adding the "last edited on" footer...?), and that just seems all kinds of messy-bad. Should the help just say "currenttime etc returns UTC time" then? --WeaverThree 12:47, 24 March 2010 (UTC)