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`: HelpOnMacros . . . . 6 matches HelpOnActions . . . . 3 matches FindPage . . . . 1 match
`[[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	executory
`[[RandomPage(#)]]`	links to a number of random pages	Two random pages: HelpOnProcessingInstructions nightmare~
`[[TableOfContents]]`	display a local table of contents	See below
`[[Anchor(anchorname)]]`	macro to insert anchors into a page	#here

System information

Macro	Description	Example
`[[InterWiki]]`	a list of all known InterWiki names	InterWiki
`[[SystemInfo]]`	info on the wiki, the python interpreter and the host system	SystemInfo
`[[PageCount]]`	current page count	194 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 2nd line
`[[Include(HelloWorld[,"heading"[,level]])]]`	include contents of another page	[goto HelloWorld]
`[[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	2008-11-22
`[[DateTime(timestamp)]]`	display a timestamp¹ according to user settings	2008-11-22 01:31:26
`[[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	See TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView

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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: