MediaWiki API help

Which action to perform. This parameter should be sent as part of the request URL (not the POST body) for ease of use in debugging, analytics, and request routing or filtering.

abusefiltercheckmatch

Hubi in Shaandhada Xadgudubku la jaanqaadayso doorsoomayaal la bixiyay, tafatir, ama dhacdo AbuseFilter ah oo diiwaan gashan.

abusefilterchecksyntax

Hubi saxnaanta qaab dhismeedka shaandhada Shaandhada Xadgudubka.

abusefilterevalexpression

Qiimee tibaax Shaandhada Xadgudubka.

abusefilterunblockautopromote

Ka qaad xannibaadda isticmaalaha ee ka hor istaageysa kor u qaadista otomaatiga ah ee ka dhalatay shaandhada xadgudubka.

abuselogprivatedetails

Eeg faahfaahinta gaarka ah ee gelitaanka AbuseLog.

acquiretempusername

Acquire a temporary user username and stash it in the current session, if temp account creation is enabled and the current user is logged out. If a name has already been stashed, returns the same name.

antispoof

Ku tijaabi magaca isticmaalaha baarista habaynta ee ka hortagga is daba marinta.

block

Block a user.

centralauthtoken

Fetch a centralauthtoken for making an authenticated request to an attached wiki.

centralnoticecdncacheupdatebanner

Request the purge of banner content stored in the CDN (front-end) cache for anonymous users, for the requested banner and language

centralnoticechoicedata

Get data needed to choose a banner for a given project and language

centralnoticequerycampaign

Get all configuration settings for a campaign.

changeauthenticationdata

Change authentication data for the current user.

changecontentmodel

Change the content model of a page

checktoken

Check the validity of a token from action=query&meta=tokens.

clearhasmsg

Clears the hasmsg flag for the current user.

clientlogin

Log in to the wiki using the interactive flow.

communityconfigurationedit

Change the content of a configuration provider in Community configuration

compare

Get the difference between two pages.

createaccount

Create a new user account.

createlocalaccount

Forcibly create a local account. The central account must exist.

delete

Delete a page.

deleteglobalaccount

Delete a global user.

discussiontoolsedit

Ku dhaji fariin bogga wadahadalka.

discussiontoolsfindcomment

Raadi faallo adigoo adeegsanaya aqoonsigeeda ama magaceeda.

discussiontoolsgetsubscriptions

Hel xaaladaha is-diiwaangelinta ee mawduucyada la bixiyay.

discussiontoolssubscribe

Is-diiwaangeli (ama ka bax is-diiwaangelinta) si aad u hesho ogeysiisyo ku saabsan mawduuc.

discussiontoolsthank

Dir ogeysiis mahadcelin dadweyne oo loogu talagalay faallo.

echocreateevent

Si gacanta ah ugu kici ogeysiis isticmaale

echomarkread

Calaamadee ogeysiisyada isticmaalaha hadda inay yihiin la akhriyey.

echomarkseen

Calaamadee ogeysiisyada isticmaalaha hadda inay yihiin la arkay.

echomute

Aamusi ama ka saar aamusi ogeysiisyada ka imanaya isticmaaleyaal ama bogag gaar ah.

edit

Create and edit pages.

editmassmessagelist

Wax ka beddel liis gudbinta farriimaha guud.

emailuser

Email a user.

expandtemplates

Expands all templates within wikitext.

featuredfeed

Returns a featured content feed.

feedcontributions

Returns a user's contributions feed.

feedrecentchanges

Returns a recent changes feed.

feedwatchlist

Returns a watchlist feed.

filerevert

Revert a file to an old version.

globalblock

Xannib ama ka qaad xannibaad isticmaale caalami ahaan.

globalpreferenceoverrides

Beddel ka-reebitaannada maxalliga ah ee dooqyada caalamiga ah ee isticmaalaha hadda.

globalpreferences

Beddel dooqyada caalamiga ah ee isticmaalaha hadda.

globaluserrights

Add/remove a user to/from global groups.

help

Display help for the specified modules.

imagerotate

This module has been disabled.

import

Import a page from another wiki, or from an XML file.

jsonconfig

Allows direct access to JsonConfig subsystem.

languagesearch

Search for language names in any script.

linkaccount

Link an account from a third-party provider to the current user.

login

Log in and get authentication cookies.

logout

Log out and clear session data.

managetags

Perform management tasks relating to change tags.

massmessage

U dir fariin liis bogag ah.

mergehistory

Merge page histories.

move

Move a page.

opensearch

Search the wiki using the OpenSearch protocol.

options

Change preferences of the current user.

paraminfo

Obtain information about API modules.

parse

Parses content and returns parser output.

patrol

Patrol a page or revision.

protect

Change the protection level of a page.

purge

Purge the cache for the given titles.

query

Fetch data from and about MediaWiki.

removeauthenticationdata

Remove authentication data for the current user.

resetpassword

Send a password reset email to a user.

revisiondelete

Delete and undelete revisions.

rollback

Undo the last edit to the page.

rsd

Export an RSD (Really Simple Discovery) schema.

setglobalaccountstatus

Hide or lock (or unhide or unlock) a global user account.

setnotificationtimestamp

Update the notification timestamp for watched pages.

setpagelanguage

Change the language of a page.

shortenurl

U beddel URL dheer mid gaaban.

sitematrix

Hel liiska bogagga Wikimedia

spamblacklist

Xaqiiji hal ama ka badan URL oo ka dhan ah liiska xannibaadda spam.

streamconfigs

Exposes event stream config. Returns only format=json with formatversion=2.

strikevote

Allows admins to strike or unstrike a vote.

tag

Add or remove change tags from individual revisions or log entries.

templatedata

Soo qaado xogta lagu kaydiyay kordhinta TemplateData.

thank

U dir ogeysiis mahadcelin tafatiraha.

titleblacklist

Hubi sax ahaanshaha cinwaan bog, magaca faylka, ama magaca isticmaale adigoo isticmaalaya liiska cinwaannada la reebay.

torblock

Hubi in cinwaanka IP-ga uu xanniban yahay maadaama uu yahay noodh bixitaan Tor.

transcodereset

Users with the 'transcode-reset' right can reset and re-run a transcode job.

unblock

Unblock a user.

undelete

Undelete revisions of a deleted page.

unlinkaccount

Remove a linked third-party account from the current user.

upload

Upload a file, or get the status of pending uploads.

userrights

Change a user's group membership.

validatepassword

Validate a password against the wiki's password policies.

watch

Add or remove pages from the current user's watchlist.

webapp-manifest

Waxay soo celisaa muuqaalka webapp-ka.

webauthn

API Module to communicate between server and client during registration/authentication process.

wikifunctions_run

Run a function call

wikilambda_fetch

Fetch the JSON model of ZObjects.

abstractwiki_fetch_section

Internal. Request the currently available Abstract Wikipedia rendered fragments for the given topic Qid (Wikidata Item Id), section Qid, language Zid and date. Alternatively (and only with special rights), request the currently available rendered output of an array of fragments passed in the request, which can be different from the currently persisted version.

This request is never blocking. When any of the requested fragments is not ready, the retuned value for that fragment will have a "pending" flag set to true.

The response is always guaranteed to return as many results as requested -- For example, if the "fragments" param is empty and the requested section has N fragments, all N will be returned; similarly, if M fragments are requested in the "fragments" parameter, the respond will return M items.

abstractwiki_run_fragment

Internal. Render an Abstract Wikipedia content fragment for the given Wikidata Item Id, language Zid and date

bouncehandler

Internal. Hel iimayl soo noqday oo farsamee si loo maareeyo qofka qaata ee fashilmay.

categorytree

Internal. Qaybta gudaha ee kordhinta CategoryTree.

chartinfo

Internal. Soo celi tirada hadda ee isticmaalka gaarka ah ee bogagga Chart. Isticmaal badan oo isla chart ah oo ku jira isla bogga waxaa loo tiriyaa hal isticmaal.

cirrus-check-sanity

Internal. Warbixin ku saabsan saxnaanta tiro aqoonsi bogag ah oo ku jira tusmada raadinta

cirrus-config-dump

Internal. Tuurista qaabeynta Raadinta Cirrus.

cirrus-profiles-dump

Internal. Tuurista profiles-ka Raadinta Cirrus ee wiki-kan.

cirrus-schema-dump

Internal. Tuurista qaab-dhismeedka Raadinta Cirrus (dejimaha iyo khariidaynta) ee wiki-kan.

codemirror-validate

Internal. Check for validation errors in the given content

collection

Internal. API module for performing various operations on a wiki user's collection.

cspreport

Internal. Used by browsers to report violations of the Content Security Policy. This module should never be used, except when used automatically by a CSP compliant web browser.

discussiontoolscompare

Internal. Hel macluumaad ku saabsan isbeddellada faallooyinka ee u dhexeeya laba nuqul oo bog ah.

discussiontoolspageinfo

Internal. Waxay soo celisaa xogta meta ah ee loo baahan yahay si loo bilaabo Qalabka doodda.

discussiontoolspreview

Internal. Eeg horudhac fariin ku saabsan bogga wadahadalka.

editcheckreferenceurl

Internal. Check the status of a URL for use as a reference.

fancycaptchareload

Internal. Get a new FancyCaptcha.

jsondata

Internal. Retrieve localized JSON data.

jsontransform

Internal. Retrieve JSON data transformed by a Lua function.

parser-migration

Internal. Fasiri bog leh laba qaabeyn oo falanqeeye oo kala duwan.

readinglists

Internal. Reading list write operations.

sanitize-mapdata

Internal. Waxay fulisaa xaqiijinta xogta ee kordhinta Kartographer

scribunto-console

Internal. Module gudaha ah oo loogu adeegayo codsiyada XHR ee ka imanaya konsolka Scribunto.

securepollauth

Internal. Allows a remote wiki to authenticate users before granting access to vote in the election.

stashedit

Internal. Prepare an edit in shared cache.

timedtext

Internal. Provides timed text content for usage by <track> elements

ulslocalization

Internal. Hel tarjumaadda ULS ee luqadda la bixiyay.

ulssetlang

Internal. Cusboonaysii luqadda is dhexgalka ee uu doorbidayo isticmaaluhu.

visualeditor

Internal. Waxay soo celisaa HTML5 ee bogga laga helo adeegga Parsoid.

visualeditoredit

Internal. Ku keydi bog HTML5 ah MediaWiki (loogu beddelay wikitext iyadoo la adeegsanayo adeegga Parsoid).

wikifunctions_html_sanitiser

Internal. API to sanitise a string of HTML for user-facing display on Wikifunctions.org and client Wikimedia wikis.

wikilambda_edit

Internal. Create or edit a ZObject.

wikilambda_function_call

Internal. Invoke a function by calling the function-orchestrator

wikilambda_perform_test

Internal. Endpoint to query test results for a ZFunction. Accepts a ZFunction, a list of ZImplementations, and a list of ZTesters. Accepts either a list of ZIDs or the full ZObject for the function, implementations, or testers. Also accepts a key to utilize a back end cache or not.

wikilambda_supported_programming_languages

Internal. Retrieve the programming languages supported by the evaluator

wikimediaeventsblockededit

Internal. Log information about blocked edit attempts

wikimediaeventshcaptchaeditattempt

Internal. Log edit diff when hCaptcha challenge is shown but edit is incomplete

The format of the output.

json

Output data in JSON format.

jsonfm

Output data in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).

none

Output nothing.

rawfm

Output data, including debugging elements, in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).

xml

Output data in XML format.

xmlfm

Output data in XML format (pretty-print in HTML).

Maximum lag can be used when MediaWiki is installed on a database replicated cluster. To save actions causing any more site replication lag, this parameter can make the client wait until the replication lag is less than the specified value. In case of excessive lag, error code maxlag is returned with a message like Waiting for $host: $lag seconds lagged.
See Manual: Maxlag parameter for more information.

Set the s-maxage HTTP cache control header to this many seconds. Errors are never cached.

Set the max-age HTTP cache control header to this many seconds. Errors are never cached.

Verify that the user is logged in (including possibly as a temporary user) if set to user, not logged in if set to anon, or has the bot user right if bot.

Verify the current user is the named user.

Any value given here will be included in the response. May be used to distinguish requests.

Include the hostname that served the request in the results.

Include the current timestamp in the result.

Include the languages used for uselang and errorlang in the result.

When accessing the API using a cross-domain AJAX request (CORS), set this to the originating domain. This must be included in any pre-flight request, and therefore must be part of the request URL (not the POST body).

For authenticated requests, this must match one of the origins in the Origin header exactly, so it has to be set to something like https://en.wikipedia.org or https://meta.wikimedia.org. If this parameter does not match the Origin header, a 403 response will be returned. If this parameter matches the Origin header and the origin is allowed, the Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Credentials headers will be set.

For non-authenticated requests, specify the value *. This will cause the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to be set, but Access-Control-Allow-Credentials will be false and all user-specific data will be restricted.

When accessing the API using a cross-domain AJAX request (CORS) and using a session provider that is safe against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks (such as OAuth), use this instead of origin=* to make the request authenticated (i.e., not logged out). This must be included in any pre-flight request, and therefore must be part of the request URL (not the POST body).

Note that most session providers, including standard cookie-based sessions, do not support authenticated CORS and cannot be used with this parameter.

Language to use for message translations. action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=languages returns a list of language codes. You can specify user to use the current user's language preference or content to use this wiki's content language.

Variant of the language. Only works if the base language supports variant conversion.

Format to use for warning and error text output

plaintext

Wikitext with HTML tags removed and entities replaced.

wikitext

Unparsed wikitext.

html

HTML

raw

Message key and parameters.

none

No text output, only the error codes.

bc

Format used prior to MediaWiki 1.29. errorlang and errorsuselocal are ignored.

Language to use for warnings and errors. action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=languages returns a list of language codes. Specify content to use this wiki's content language or uselang to use the same value as the uselang parameter.

If given, error texts will use locally-customized messages from the MediaWiki namespace.

When accessing the API using a cross-domain AJAX request (CORS), use this to authenticate as the current SUL user. Use action=centralauthtoken on this wiki to retrieve the token, before making the CORS request. Each token may only be used once, and expires after 60 seconds. This should be included in any pre-flight request, and therefore should be included in the request URI (not the POST body).

On this wiki the expected value is a JSON Web Token, which may be validated by proxy servers in front of MediaWiki. If the token has expired or is otherwise invalid, you may receive a HTTP error from a proxy in a different format than a normal API error.