On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:42:59 -0800, Amgine &lt;amgine(a)saewyc.net&gt; wrote: I think I'm right in saying that you'll need to make changes in exactly three places: 1) at the top of includes/MagicWord.php: * add "define(MAG_CURRENTWEEK, <some number not used yet>);" * add "MAG_CURRENTWEEK" into the $wgVariableIDs array [this defines the "magic word" within the software] 2) in languages/Language.php (and/or LanguageXx.php for the language your wiki uses): * add "MAG_CURRENTWEEK => array (1, 'CURRENTWEEK') , " into the $wgMagicWordsEn array (or $wgMagicWords<langcode>, as appropriate) [this defines what text your magic word matches] 3) in includes/Parser.php, function getVariableValue: * add the code to actually deal with your new variable, something like: case MAG_CURRENTWEEK: return $wgContLang->formatNum( date('W') ); NB: According to the PHP manual at http://php.net/date, this will give you weeks that start on Monday; and according to one comment there "your last week of a year may be 1 [...] e.g. December 31th[sic] 2002 is in week 1 of the year 2003!" Having gone this far, I could just give you a diff, but not knowing what version you're running, and having generally rather destroyed my local install anyway, I'll leave the rest to you. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]