Macros
Macros allow the insertion of system features into normal wiki pages; the only thing that makes those pages special is that they contain macros. If you edit pages like RecentChanges or SystemInfo, you'll see what that means.
For more information on the possible markup, see HelpOnEditing.
Search macros
Macro |
Description |
Example |
[[TitleSearch]] |
search the page titles |
See the FindPage |
[[FullSearch]] |
search the page contents |
See the FindPage |
[[FullSearch()]] |
search for the current title in all pages (like clicking on the page title) |
See the CategoryCategory page |
[[FullSearch('text')]] |
search for "text" in all pages |
Search for FullSearch: |
[[GoTo]] |
directly go to the page you enter |
See the FindPage |
[[PageList(regex)]] |
list of pages whose title matches the regex |
See the HelpIndex |
Navigation
Macro |
Description |
Example |
[[RecentChanges]] |
a list of recently edited pages |
See RecentChanges |
[[TitleIndex]] |
an index of all page titles |
See TitleIndex |
[[WordIndex]] |
an index of all words in page titles |
See WordIndex |
[[WantedPages]] |
list links to non-existent pages |
See WantedPages |
[[OrphanedPages]] |
list pages no other page links to |
See OrphanedPages |
[[AbandonedPages]] |
list pages that were not edited for the longest time |
See AbandonedPages |
[[RandomPage]] |
a link to a random page |
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[[RandomPage(#)]] |
links to a number of random pages |
Two random pages: |
[[TableOfContents]] |
display a local table of contents |
See below |
[[Anchor(anchorname)]] |
macro to insert anchors into a page |
System information
Macro |
Description |
Example |
[[InterWiki]] |
a list of all known InterWiki names |
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[[SystemInfo]] |
info on the wiki, the python interpreter and the host system |
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[[PageCount]] |
current page count |
1578 pages |
[[PageSize]] |
list the sizes of all pages |
See PageSize |
[[StatsChart(type)]] |
shows statistical charts (currently defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents) |
See EventStats and subpages |
[[SystemAdmin]] |
Web interface to wiki administration (not completed yet as of version 1.0) |
See SystemInfo |
Others
Macro |
Description |
Example |
[[Icon(image)]] |
display system icons |
See HelpOnNavigation |
[[UserPreferences]] |
display a user preferences dialog |
See UserPreferences |
[[BR]] |
insert a line break |
1st line |
[[Include(HelloWorld[,"heading"[,level]])]] |
include contents of another page |
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[[FootNote(text)]] |
Add a footnote (the text cannot contain any wiki markup), or explicitely display collected footnotes when no args are given |
See HelpOnPageCreation for an example |
[[Date(timestamp)]] |
display a timestamp according to system settings |
2024-11-23 |
[[DateTime(timestamp)]] |
display a timestamp1 according to user settings |
2024-11-23 00:11:01 |
[[GetText(text)]] |
loads I18N texts (mainly intended for use on Help pages) |
"EditText" is translated to "EditText" |
[[TeudView]] |
useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see TeudProject |
1 "timestamp" can be empty (current time), a number of seconds since 1970 (unix timestamp), or a W3C time specification ("2002-01-23T12:34:56").
Example Display
We don't show examples for all macros here, because that would make this page quite long. Here is is the replacement text for the [[SystemInfo]] macro:
- Python Version
- 2.7.17 (default, Jan 3 2020, 11:11:19) [GCC 7.4.0]
- MoinMoin Version
- Release 1.5.9 [Revision release]
- Number of pages
- 924
- Number of system pages
- 151
- Accumulated page sizes
- 2081.1 KiB
- Entries in edit log
- 15907 (1917.5 KiB)
- Event log
- 621.4 MiB