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SMcCandlish (talk | contribs) null edit to fix error: last edit summary should have referred to "variables and behavior switches", not "variables and parser functions" |
SMcCandlish (talk | contribs) No point "advertising" nearly identical shortcuts. Some of these pages have several dozen, but piling them on in a list at the top of the page is not helpful. |
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{{for|an introduction|Help:Magic words for beginners}}
{{Wikipedia how-to|H:MW|WP:MAGIC
'''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, magic words can suppress or position the table of contents, disable indexing by external search engines, and produce output dynamically based on the current page or on user-defined conditional logic. Some of these features are especially useful for [[WP:Templates|templates]].
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