MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=paraminfo
(main | paraminfo)
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Obtain information about API modules.
Parameters:
- modules
List of module names (values of the action and format parameters, or main). Can specify submodules with a +.
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- helpformat
Format of help strings.
- One of the following values: html, wikitext, raw, none
- Default: none
- querymodules
- Deprecated.
List of query module names (value of prop, meta or list parameter). Use modules=query+foo instead of querymodules=foo.
- Values (separate with |): allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allmessages, allpages, allredirects, alltransclusions, allusers, backlinks, blocks, categories, categoryinfo, categorymembers, contributors, deletedrevisions, deletedrevs, duplicatefiles, embeddedin, extlinks, exturlusage, filearchive, filerepoinfo, fileusage, imageinfo, images, imageusage, info, iwbacklinks, iwlinks, langbacklinks, langlinks, languagestats, links, linkshere, logevents, messagecollection, messagegroups, messagegroupstats, messagetranslations, pagepropnames, pageprops, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, redirects, revisions, search, siteinfo, stashimageinfo, tags, templates, tokens, transcludedin, usercontribs, userinfo, users, watchlist, watchlistraw
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- mainmodule
- Deprecated.
Get information about the main (top-level) module as well. Use modules=main instead.
- pagesetmodule
- Deprecated.
Get information about the pageset module (providing titles= and friends) as well.
- formatmodules
- Deprecated.
List of format module names (value of format parameter). Use modules instead.
- Values (separate with |): dbg, dbgfm, json, jsonfm, none, php, phpfm, rawfm, txt, txtfm, xml, xmlfm, yaml, yamlfm