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MediaWiki knows some defined variables which can be used in texts. They are rendered differently depending on the time, the site and the page. Their syntax is similar to templates. If you want a page to show always the current time, you use {{CURRENTTIME}}. To distinguish variables from templates, most variables are capitalized.

Description	You type	You get
Date & Wiki variables
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTH}}	05
Current month	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	May
Genitive form of current month name	{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	May
Abbreviated month name	{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}	May
Day of the month	{{CURRENTDAY}}	13
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDOW}}	2
Day of the week	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Tuesday
Week	{{CURRENTWEEK}}	20
Year	{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2008
current time	{{CURRENTTIME}}	09:50
numbers of articles in this Wiki	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	303
numbers of uploaded files	{{NUMBEROFFILES}}	6,529
Namespaces
	{{ns:-2}} or {{ns:Media}}	Media
	{{ns:-1}} or {{ns:Special}}	Special
	{{ns:1}} or {{ns:Talk}}	Talk
	{{ns:2}} or {{ns:User}}	User
	{{ns:3}} or {{ns:User_talk}}	User_talk
	{{ns:4}} or {{ns:Project}}	You_and_Yesterday
	{{ns:5}} or {{ns:Project_talk}}	You_and_Yesterday_talk
	{{ns:6}} or {{ns:Image}}	Image
	{{ns:7}} or {{ns:Image_talk}}	Image_talk
	{{ns:8}} or {{ns:MediaWiki}}	MediaWiki
	{{ns:9}} or {{ns:MediaWiki_talk}}	MediaWiki_talk
	{{ns:10}} or {{ns:Template}}	Template
	{{ns:11}} or {{ns:Template_talk}}	Template_talk
	{{ns:12}} or {{ns:Help}}	Help
	{{ns:13}} or {{ns:Help_talk}}	Help_talk
	{{ns:14}} or {{ns:Category}}	Category
	{{ns:15}} or {{ns:Category_talk}}	Category_talk
Server specific
Sitename	{{SITENAME}}	You and Yesterday
Servername	{{SERVERNAME}}	www.youandyesterday.co.uk
Server	{{SERVER}}	http://www.youandyesterday.co.uk
Script path	{{SCRIPTPATH}}
Local part of the URL	{{localurl:pagename}}	/articles/Pagename
	{{localurl:pagename\|query string}}	/articles?title=Pagename&query string
Page related
Pagename	{{PAGENAME}}	Variables
Pagename (URL encoded)	{{PAGENAMEE}}	Variables
Namespace	{{NAMESPACE}}	Help
Revision ID	{{REVISIONID}}	10545