Extracts from a page title the name of a month (January, February, March etc). Returns nothing if there is no match.

Note that the monthname in the title must be properly capitalised. "October" will be matched, but "october" or "OCTOBER" will be ignored.

Some options allow its behaviour to be configured.

Usage

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Basic usage

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{{Title monthname}}

This usage will return the first word in the title which matches the correctly-capitalised name of a month.

If no match is found, it returns an empty string. This allows its simple use in templates, e.g.

{{#if: {{Title monthname}}|<!-- do nothing if there is a match -->|This page's title does not include a month}}

Optional parameters

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Three optional parameters are available:

  1. |page=value
    This forces the template to use a title other than the current page
  2. |nomatch=value
    This parameter is used to specify a message to be generate if no match is found. For example
    • Default output {{Title monthname|page=All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace}}
    • with nomatch {{Title monthname|page=All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace|nomatch=No month!}} → No month!
  3. |match=number
    If multiple month names are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1.
    Examples:
    • {{Title monthname|page=Events in June, July, or August|match=3}} → August
    • {{Title monthname|page=Riots in February, March, April, May, June, or July (and maybe November)|match=-2}} → July

TemplateData

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Title monthname in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Title monthname

Extracts a 3- or 4-digit year from the current page title. All parameters are optional.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Match Instancematch

If multiple monthnames are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1.

Default
1
Numberoptional
No match textnomatch

If no monthname is found, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank.

Stringoptional
Override page titlepage

Specified a page title to use other than the current page. If left blank, the template will use the title of the current page

Default
{{BASEPAGENAME}}
Page nameoptional

See also

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