Help:Magic words
Magic words are strings of text that have special meaning within the 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 the MediaWiki help page; for developer documentation related to adding a new magic word, see 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 templates when invoked;
- Parser functions, which take parameters and return a value. They also resemble templates; for a more comprehensive overview see the ParserFunctions extension.
| Magic Word | Description |
|---|---|
| Articles | |
__NOTOC__
|
Hides the table of contents on a page |
__NOEDITSECTION__
|
Hides the edit link besides a section's header |
__NEWSECTIONLINK__
|
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 talk pages |
__NONEWSECTIONLINK__
|
Removes the add a new section link next to "Edit" link in talk pages |
| Categories | |
__NOGALLERY__
|
Used in category pages, removes thumbnails and provides regular links. |
__HIDDENCAT__
|
Hides the category from being displayed at the end of the articles in this category. Useful for maintenance categories. |
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
|
When used on a category, removes it from Special:UnusedCategories even when it's empty. |
| Miscellaneous | |
__INDEX__
|
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 |
__NOINDEX__
|
Tells search engines not to index this page |
__STATICREDIRECT__
|
On redirect pages, prevents the redirect link from being updated when the user moves the page. |
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__
|
Removes the template from Special:UnusedTemplates even if no page includes it. |