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.

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)

Big redundancy
This page and its translations are to my mind to merge with meta:Help:Magic_words. JackPotte 11:21, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Other way round. This is the master copy of the MediaWiki documentation (the one which will be kept up-to-date by the developers as the software changes); the content from meta should be merged here.  Happy ‑ melon 16:19, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree but unfortunately I can't import them here with my user account and meta still hasn't got the same consensus. JackPotte 17:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Username
Is there any magic word which would username of return currently logged user?

Or his IP adress? --88.102.135.201 15:21, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Check answer to Help_talk:Extension:ParserFunctions Hamilton Abreu 15:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, that exactly what I didn't wanted. That writes name of who made last edit on such page, which is almost like signature. I need username of user who is just reading that page. --88.102.135.201 17:25, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * ...like for example for welcoming user by his name right on Main Page --88.102.135.201 17:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)