Editing Help:Magic words (section)

=== Formatting ===
{{further|mw:Help:Magic words#Formatting}}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Function
! scope="col" | Description
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! scope="row" id="lc" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{lc:''string''}}</kbd>
| Converts all characters in ''string'' to lower case.
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! scope="row" id="lcfirst" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{lcfirst:''string''}}</kbd>
| Converts first character of ''string'' to lower case.
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! scope="row" id="uc" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{uc:''string''}}</kbd>
| Converts all characters in ''string'' to upper case.
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! scope="row" id="ucfirst" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{ucfirst:''string''}}</kbd>
| Converts first character of ''string'' to upper case.
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! scope="row" id="formatnum" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{formatnum:''unformatted_number''}}<br />{<nowiki/>{formatnum:''formatted_num'' {{pipe}}R}}</kbd>
| Adds comma separators to an ''unformatted_number'' (e.g. 123456789 becomes {{formatnum:123456789}}). To remove such formatting, use <kbd>{<nowiki/>{formatnum:''formatted_number''{{pipe}}R}}</kbd> (i.e. <kbd>{{braces|formatnum:7,654,321{{pipe}}R}}</kbd>, for example, produces {{formatnum:7,654,321|R}}).
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! scope="row" id="dateformat" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{#dateformat:''date''{{pipe}}''format''}}<br />{<nowiki/>{#formatdate:''date''{{pipe}}''format''}}</kbd>
| Formats a date according to user preferences; a default can be given as an optional case-sensitive second parameter for users without date preference; can convert a date from an existing format to any of <code>dmy</code>, <code>mdy</code>, <code>ymd</code>, or <code>[[ISO 8601]]</code> formats, with the user's preference overriding the specified format.
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! scope="row" id="padleft" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{padleft:''xyz''{{pipe}}''stringlength''}}<br />{<nowiki/>{padright:''xyz''{{pipe}}''stringlength''}}<br /><br />{<nowiki/>{padleft:''xyz''{{pipe}}''length''{{pipe}}''padstr''}}<br />{<nowiki/>{padright:''xyz''{{pipe}}''length''{{pipe}}''padstr''}}</kbd>
| Pad with zeroes '0' to the right or left, to fill the given length; an alternative padding string can be given as a third parameter; the repeated padding string (''padstr'') will be truncated if its length does not evenly divide the required number of characters.
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! scope="row" id="mCPlural" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{plural:''N''{{pipe}}''singular''{{pipe}}''plural''}}</kbd>
| Outputs ''singular'' if ''N'' is equal to 1, otherwise outputs ''plural''. See the [[mw:Help:Magic words#Localization|documentation at mediawiki.org]] for more details.
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! scope="row" id="mwtime" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{#time:''format''{{pipe}}''object''}}</kbd><br /><kbd>{<nowiki/>{#timel:''format''{{pipe}}''object''}}<br /><br />{<nowiki/>{#time:d F Y{{pipe}}''date''{{pipe}}''langcode''}}<br /><br />{<nowiki/>{#timef:object{{pipe}}''format type''{{pipe}}''langcode''}}</kbd>
| Used to format dates and times, for ISO format, dots or English month names. <kbd>#timel</kbd> and <kbd>#timefl</kbd> are based on local time as defined for each wiki; for English Chabadpedia, this is identical to <kbd>#time</kbd> and <kbd>#timef</kbd>.<br />The optional 3rd parameter is the output language code (French, German, Swedish: fr, de, sv, etc.). Example Finnish: <kbd><nowiki>{{#time:d F Y|June 30, 2016|fi}}</nowiki></kbd> shows: {{#time:d F Y|June 30, 2016|fi}} (June). ISO to German: <kbd><nowiki>{{#time:d. M Y|1987-10-31|de}}</nowiki></kbd> shows: {{#time:d. M Y|1987-10-31|de}}.<br />For format codes, see: [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##time]]. Use the format <kbd><nowiki>{{#time: H:i, j F Y (e)|...}}</nowiki></kbd> to match the format used by timestamps in signatures.<br /><kbd>#timef</kbd> formats a date using a standard format for the selected language, see: [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##timef]].
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! scope="row" id="gender" | <kbd>{<nowiki/>{gender:''user''{{pipe}}''m_out''{{pipe}}''f_out''{{pipe}}''u_out''}}</kbd>
| Outputs ''m_out'', ''f_out'' or ''u_out'' according to whether the gender specified in ''user''{{thinsp}}'s preferences is, respectively, male, female or unspecified. Other parameter permutations are available, see [[mw:Help:Magic words#gender]] and [[translatewiki:Special:MyLanguage/Gender|translatewiki:Gender]].
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! scope="row" id="mwtag" | <kbd>[[mw:Help:Magic words#Miscellaneous|{<nowiki/>{#tag:''tagname''{{pipe}}''content with magic''}}]]</kbd>
| Only way to [[eval]]uate magic words ''inside a tag'', in order to generate <code>&lt;''tagname''>''magic''&lt;/''tagname''></code>. Also handles tag attributes. Details at [[mw:Help:Magic words#tag]].
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