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   ContextVariables and ConfigurationsVariables are synonyms. They are used in configuration files and ContextPages.

Important ContextVariables for FractalWiki:

Layout variables: Technical variables: Configuration variable make a wiki work the way it does. There are many of them (perhaps 40-60) and they come in a number of different flavours.

Typically (before the FractalWiki) they come from a wiki configuration file and will not change very often. Typically they are set when the wiki is installed and maybe fine tuned later. This is done by the administrator of a wiki or by the support (of your wiki software).

You can look at the configuration file of this wiki:

But

This fractal wiki also takes configuration data from ContextPages along the page path:

So the page Page/Secondary/Third would be influenced by the standard configuration file and 4 Context pages. If this page has no subpages then the last one is an individual configuration files that is only working for this single page.

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Context variables and where they are used:

Note

A few ContextVariables can't be redefined. They are defined in

Variable %VarLockedHash:
AllowEdit => n
ContextPageName => n
CookieName => n
DataDir => n
DateLimit => n
DefaultRights => n
ExecutablesDir => n
GlobalDir => n
PageLimit => n
ScriptFile => n
TemplateInsertPassList => n
UploadUserQuotaMax => n
UploadWikiQuota => n
UserName => n
WebDir => n
WikiBase => n
WikiCharset => n

Using them in a /Context page is without effect (I hope).