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{{short description|Special markup for MediaWiki}}

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'''Magic words''' (including '''parser functions''', '''variables''', and '''behavior switches''') are features of [[Help:Wiki markup|wiki markup]] that give instructions to Wikipedia's underlying [[MediaWiki]] software. For example, certain magic words are used to suppress or position the [[Wikipedia:Table of contents|table of contents]], disable [[Wikipedia:INDEXING|indexing]] by external search engines, or produce output dynamically based on the current page or on user-defined [[Help:Conditional expressions|conditional expressions]]. Some of these features are especially useful for [[WP:Templates|templates]].

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! scope="row" style="background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle);" id="TOC" | <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>

| Places the page's [[Help:Table of contents|table of contents (TOC)]] at the word's position. This magic word does not work in skins that present the table of contents outside the article content e.g. the default [[Wikipedia:Vector 2022|Vector 2022]] skin.

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! scope="row" style="background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle);" id="FORCETOC" | <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>

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! scope="row" style="background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle);" id="NOTOC" | <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>

| Suppresses the appearance of the page's TOC. Can be used anywhere on a page. [[Help:Mobile access|Mobile version]] use an alternative navigation scheme, which is not affected by <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>.

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| colspan=2 align=center style="background-color:#f1f4fd" | '''Editing'''

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== Variables ==

{{Shortcut|WP:VAR}}

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{{Further|mw:Help:Magic words#Variables|Wikipedia:Page name#sub}}

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{{Redirect|WP:PAGENAME|the article naming policy|Wikipedia:Article titles}}

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! scope="col" | Page name variable