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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <paraminfo>
    <modules>
      <module classname="ApiParse" description="Parses wikitext and returns parser output&#10;See the various prop-Modules of action=query to get information from the current version of a page" examples="api.php?action=parse&amp;text={{Project:Sandbox}}" version="" prefix="" readrights="" name="parse">
        <helpurls>
          <helpurl>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext#parse</helpurl>
        </helpurls>
        <allexamples>
          <example xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=parse&amp;text={{Project:Sandbox}}</example>
        </allexamples>
        <parameters>
          <param name="title" description="Title of page the text belongs to" default="API" type="string" />
          <param name="text" description="Wikitext to parse" type="string" />
          <param name="summary" description="Summary to parse" type="string" />
          <param name="page" description="Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title" type="string" />
          <param name="pageid" description="Parse the content of this page. Overrides page" type="integer" />
          <param name="redirects" description="If the page or the pageid parameter is set to a redirect, resolve it" default="false" type="boolean" />
          <param name="oldid" description="Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page and pageid" type="integer" />
          <param name="prop" description="Which pieces of information to get&#10; text           - Gives the parsed text of the wikitext&#10; langlinks      - Gives the language links in the parsed wikitext&#10; categories     - Gives the categories in the parsed wikitext&#10; categorieshtml - Gives the HTML version of the categories&#10; languageshtml  - Gives the HTML version of the language links&#10; links          - Gives the internal links in the parsed wikitext&#10; templates      - Gives the templates in the parsed wikitext&#10; images         - Gives the images in the parsed wikitext&#10; externallinks  - Gives the external links in the parsed wikitext&#10; sections       - Gives the sections in the parsed wikitext&#10; revid          - Adds the revision ID of the parsed page&#10; displaytitle   - Adds the title of the parsed wikitext&#10; headitems      - Gives items to put in the &lt;head&gt; of the page&#10; headhtml       - Gives parsed &lt;head&gt; of the page&#10; iwlinks        - Gives interwiki links in the parsed wikitext&#10; wikitext       - Gives the original wikitext that was parsed&#10; properties     - Gives various properties defined in the parsed wikitext" default="text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle|iwlinks|properties" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
            <type>
              <t>text</t>
              <t>langlinks</t>
              <t>languageshtml</t>
              <t>categories</t>
              <t>categorieshtml</t>
              <t>links</t>
              <t>templates</t>
              <t>images</t>
              <t>externallinks</t>
              <t>sections</t>
              <t>revid</t>
              <t>displaytitle</t>
              <t>headitems</t>
              <t>headhtml</t>
              <t>iwlinks</t>
              <t>wikitext</t>
              <t>properties</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="pst" description="Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it&#10;Ignored if page, pageid or oldid is used" default="false" type="boolean" />
          <param name="onlypst" description="Do a pre-save transform (PST) on the input, but don&#039;t parse it&#10;Returns the same wikitext, after a PST has been applied. Ignored if page, pageid or oldid is used" default="false" type="boolean" />
          <param name="uselang" description="Which language to parse the request in" type="string" />
          <param name="section" description="Only retrieve the content of this section number" type="string" />
          <param name="disablepp" description="Disable the PP Report from the parser output" default="false" type="boolean" />
          <param name="generatexml" description="Generate XML parse tree (requires prop=wikitext)" default="false" type="boolean" />
          <param name="contentformat" description="Content serialization format used for the input text">
            <type>
              <t>text/x-wiki</t>
              <t>text/javascript</t>
              <t>text/css</t>
              <t>text/plain</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="contentmodel" description="Content model of the new content">
            <type>
              <t>wikitext</t>
              <t>javascript</t>
              <t>css</t>
              <t>text</t>
            </type>
          </param>
        </parameters>
        <errors>
          <error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
          <error code="params" info="The page parameter cannot be used together with the text and title parameters" />
          <error code="params" info="The text parameter should be passed with the title parameter. Should you be using the &quot;page&quot; parameter instead?" />
          <error code="missingrev" info="There is no revision ID oldid" />
          <error code="permissiondenied" info="You don&#039;t have permission to view deleted revisions" />
          <error code="missingtitle" info="The page you specified doesn&#039;t exist" />
          <error code="nosuchsection" info="There is no section sectionnumber in page" />
          <error code="nosuchpageid" info="There is no page with ID $1" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title &quot;title&quot;" />
          <error code="parseerror" info="Failed to parse the given text." />
          <error code="notwikitext" info="The requested operation is only supported on wikitext content." />
          <error code="pagecannotexist" info="Namespace doesn&#039;t allow actual pages" />
        </errors>
      </module>
    </modules>
    <querymodules>
      <module classname="ApiQueryAllPages" description="Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace" examples="Simple Use&#10;Show a list of pages starting at the letter &quot;B&quot; api.php?action=query&amp;list=allpages&amp;apfrom=B Using as Generator&#10;Show info about 4 pages starting at the letter &quot;T&quot; api.php?action=query&amp;generator=allpages&amp;gaplimit=4&amp;gapfrom=T&amp;prop=info Show content of first 2 non-redirect pages beginning at &quot;Re&quot; api.php?action=query&amp;generator=allpages&amp;gaplimit=2&amp;gapfilterredir=nonredirects&amp;gapfrom=Re&amp;prop=revisions&amp;rvprop=content" version="" prefix="ap" readrights="" generator="" listresult="" name="allpages" querytype="list">
        <helpurls>
          <helpurl>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allpages</helpurl>
        </helpurls>
        <allexamples>
          <example description="Simple Use&#10;Show a list of pages starting at the letter &quot;B&quot;" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&amp;list=allpages&amp;apfrom=B</example>
          <example description="Using as Generator&#10;Show info about 4 pages starting at the letter &quot;T&quot;" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&amp;generator=allpages&amp;gaplimit=4&amp;gapfrom=T&amp;prop=info</example>
          <example description="Show content of first 2 non-redirect pages beginning at &quot;Re&quot;" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&amp;generator=allpages&amp;gaplimit=2&amp;gapfilterredir=nonredirects&amp;gapfrom=Re&amp;prop=revisions&amp;rvprop=content</example>
        </allexamples>
        <parameters>
          <param name="from" description="The page title to start enumerating from" type="string" />
          <param name="continue" description="When more results are available, use this to continue" type="string" />
          <param name="to" description="The page title to stop enumerating at" type="string" />
          <param name="prefix" description="Search for all page titles that begin with this value" type="string" />
          <param name="namespace" description="The namespace to enumerate" default="0" type="namespace" />
          <param name="filterredir" description="Which pages to list" default="all">
            <type>
              <t>all</t>
              <t>redirects</t>
              <t>nonredirects</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="minsize" description="Limit to pages with at least this many bytes" type="integer" />
          <param name="maxsize" description="Limit to pages with at most this many bytes" type="integer" />
          <param name="prtype" description="Limit to protected pages only" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
            <type>
              <t>edit</t>
              <t>move</t>
              <t>upload</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prlevel" description="The protection level (must be used with apprtype= parameter)" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
            <type>
              <t />
              <t>autoconfirmed</t>
              <t>sysop</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prfiltercascade" description="Filter protections based on cascadingness (ignored when apprtype isn&#039;t set)" default="all">
            <type>
              <t>cascading</t>
              <t>noncascading</t>
              <t>all</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="limit" description="How many total pages to return." default="10" type="limit" max="500" highmax="5000" min="1" />
          <param name="dir" description="The direction in which to list" default="ascending">
            <type>
              <t>ascending</t>
              <t>descending</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="filterlanglinks" description="Filter based on whether a page has langlinks" default="all">
            <type>
              <t>withlanglinks</t>
              <t>withoutlanglinks</t>
              <t>all</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prexpiry" description="Which protection expiry to filter the page on&#10; indefinite - Get only pages with indefinite protection expiry&#10; definite - Get only pages with a definite (specific) protection expiry&#10; all - Get pages with any protections expiry" default="all">
            <type>
              <t>indefinite</t>
              <t>definite</t>
              <t>all</t>
            </type>
          </param>
        </parameters>
        <props>
          <prop name="">
            <properties>
              <property name="pageid" type="integer" />
              <property name="ns" type="namespace" />
              <property name="title" type="string" />
            </properties>
          </prop>
        </props>
        <errors>
          <error code="unknownerror" info="Unknown error: &quot;badcontinue&quot;" />
          <error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title &quot;title&quot;" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title &quot;key&quot;" />
          <error code="params" info="Use &quot;gapfilterredir=nonredirects&quot; option instead of &quot;redirects&quot; when using allpages as a generator" />
          <error code="params" info="prlevel may not be used without prtype" />
        </errors>
      </module>
      <module classname="ApiQuerySiteinfo" description="Return general information about the site" examples="api.php?action=query&amp;meta=siteinfo&amp;siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics api.php?action=query&amp;meta=siteinfo&amp;siprop=interwikimap&amp;sifilteriw=local api.php?action=query&amp;meta=siteinfo&amp;siprop=dbrepllag&amp;sishowalldb=" version="" prefix="si" readrights="" name="siteinfo" querytype="meta">
        <helpurls>
          <helpurl>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Meta#siteinfo_.2F_si</helpurl>
        </helpurls>
        <allexamples>
          <example xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&amp;meta=siteinfo&amp;siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics</example>
          <example xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&amp;meta=siteinfo&amp;siprop=interwikimap&amp;sifilteriw=local</example>
          <example xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&amp;meta=siteinfo&amp;siprop=dbrepllag&amp;sishowalldb=</example>
        </allexamples>
        <parameters>
          <param name="prop" description="Which sysinfo properties to get:&#10; general               - Overall system information&#10; namespaces            - List of registered namespaces and their canonical names&#10; namespacealiases      - List of registered namespace aliases&#10; specialpagealiases    - List of special page aliases&#10; magicwords            - List of magic words and their aliases&#10; statistics            - Returns site statistics&#10; interwikimap          - Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered, (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode))&#10; dbrepllag             - Returns database server with the highest replication lag&#10; usergroups            - Returns user groups and the associated permissions&#10; extensions            - Returns extensions installed on the wiki&#10; fileextensions        - Returns list of file extensions allowed to be uploaded&#10; rightsinfo            - Returns wiki rights (license) information if available&#10; languages             - Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode)&#10; skins                 - Returns a list of all enabled skins&#10; extensiontags         - Returns a list of parser extension tags&#10; functionhooks         - Returns a list of parser function hooks&#10; showhooks             - Returns a list of all subscribed hooks (contents of $wgHooks)&#10; variables             - Returns a list of variable IDs&#10; protocols             - Returns a list of protocols that are allowed in external links." default="general" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
            <type>
              <t>general</t>
              <t>namespaces</t>
              <t>namespacealiases</t>
              <t>specialpagealiases</t>
              <t>magicwords</t>
              <t>interwikimap</t>
              <t>dbrepllag</t>
              <t>statistics</t>
              <t>usergroups</t>
              <t>extensions</t>
              <t>fileextensions</t>
              <t>rightsinfo</t>
              <t>languages</t>
              <t>skins</t>
              <t>extensiontags</t>
              <t>functionhooks</t>
              <t>showhooks</t>
              <t>variables</t>
              <t>protocols</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="filteriw" description="Return only local or only nonlocal entries of the interwiki map">
            <type>
              <t>local</t>
              <t>!local</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="showalldb" description="List all database servers, not just the one lagging the most" default="false" type="boolean" />
          <param name="numberingroup" description="Lists the number of users in user groups" default="false" type="boolean" />
          <param name="inlanguagecode" description="Language code for localised language names (best effort, use CLDR extension)" type="string" />
        </parameters>
        <errors>
          <error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title &quot;title&quot;" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title &quot;key&quot;" />
          <error code="includeAllDenied" info="Cannot view all servers info unless $wgShowHostnames is true" />
        </errors>
      </module>
    </querymodules>
  </paraminfo>
</api>