Some interesting magic words to use are the number of pages and local timestamp variables. We are going to go ahead and place these two magic words on our Main Page.
1. Open your Main Page for editing.
2. At the bottom of the page, type the following:
Number of pages in this wiki: {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}.
3. Drop down two lines and type:
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
.4. Click on Save page.
The bottom of your Main Page should now have something similar to the following screenshot:
By inserting magic words into our wiki, we were able to display information to our visitors. The screenshot shows us that we have 11 pages in our wiki at this time. Below that, we see that the current server time is August 9, 2009, 8:08:54pm EST displayed as 20090809190854. This will be continuously updated, thanks to the variable magic words we used. Using magic words, we can also alter the behavior of a page, or the wiki itself.
We can also make use of some other magic words...