Template:pagename

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The following documentation is located at Template:pagename/documentation. ^[edit]

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

Uses Lua:

• Module:pages/templates

This template is to be used in place of {{PAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAME}}. It produces the logical pagename of the current entry, that is, the underlying pagename free of the special transformations applied to unsupported titles and mammoth pages (pages such as a that are split into subpages due to their size).

The built-in MediaWiki parser functions produce the physical pagename, which includes those transformations and also has HTML-encoding of certain punctuation characters, making it unsuitable for passing directly to {{urlencode:}}.

Usage

In namespaces other than the mainspace, {{pagename}} produces the subpage, i.e. the pagename after the final slash if there is such a slash, and without the namespace prefix.

For example, {{pagename}} will return a on all of the following pages:

• a
• a/languages A to L (mammoth page)
• Appendix:Lojban/a
• Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/a
• User:Example/a

For unsupported titles, it will convert the unsupported symbols to Unicode characters whenver possible. For example, Unsupported titles/¯\`lowbar`(ツ)`lowbar`/¯ returns ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Likewise, on Unsupported titles/Space, it returns  (a space). However, on Unsupported titles/church ruins symbol, it returns church ruins symbol, as no Unicode character is available.

See also

• {{strip diacritics}} - constructs the logical pagename for a specified term