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'''Magic words''' are strings of text that have special meaning within the [[MediaWiki|wiki]] context. This page explains the commonly used magic words on the NixOS Wiki. For a comprehensive list of magic words available on a MediaWiki installation, see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words the MediaWiki help page]; for developer documentation related to adding a new magic word, see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Magic_words the MediaWiki manual page].

There are three main types of magic words available on this wiki:
* '''Behaviour switches''' that change the display of a page;
* '''Variables''', which might look like [[Help:Templates|templates]] when invoked;
* '''Parser functions''', which take parameters and return a value. They also resemble templates; for a more comprehensive overview see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions the ParserFunctions extension].

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
! Magic Word
! Description
|-
! colspan="2" | Articles
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
| Hides the table of contents on a page
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki></code>
| Hides the edit link besides a section's header
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NEWSECTIONLINK__</nowiki></code>
| Adds a new link at the top of the page, next to the "Edit" link, to add a new section to the page, similar to how new threads are added in [[Help:Talk pages|talk pages]]
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NONEWSECTIONLINK__</nowiki></code>
| Removes the add a new section link next to "Edit" link in talk pages
|-
! colspan="2" | Categories
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOGALLERY__</nowiki></code>
| Used in [[Help:Categories|category pages]], removes thumbnails and provides regular links.
|-
| <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code>
| Hides the category from being displayed at the end of the articles in this category. Useful for maintenance categories.
|-
| <code><nowiki>__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__</nowiki></code>
| When used on a category, removes it from [[Special:UnusedCategories]] even when it's empty.
|-
! colspan="2" | Miscellaneous
|-
| <code><nowiki>__INDEX__</nowiki></code>
| Tells search engines to index this page, regardless of wiki-wide settings. Note: robots.txt and the sitemap would still need to be configured, this shouldn't be used manually 99% of the time
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOINDEX__</nowiki></code>
| Tells search engines not to index this page
|-
| <code><nowiki>__STATICREDIRECT__</nowiki></code>
| On redirect pages, prevents the redirect link from being updated when the user moves the page.
|-
| <code><nowiki>__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__</nowiki></code>
| Removes the template from [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] even if no page includes it.
|}

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