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<api>
  <paraminfo>
    <modules>
      <module classname="ApiParse" description="This module parses wikitext and returns parser output" examples="api.php?action=parse&text={{Project:Sandbox}}" version="ApiParse: $Id: ApiParse.php 89672 2011-06-07 18:45:20Z catrope $" prefix="" readrights="" name="parse">
        <parameters>
          <param name="title" description="Title of page the text belongs to" default="API" />
          <param name="text" description="Wikitext to parse" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="summary" description="Summary to parse" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="page" description="Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="pageid" description="Parse the content of this page. Overrides page" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="redirects" description="If the page parameter is set to a redirect, resolve it" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="oldid" description="Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page and pageid" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="prop" description="Which pieces of information to get
 text           - Gives the parsed text of the wikitext
 langlinks      - Gives the langlinks the parsed wikitext
 categories     - Gives the categories of the parsed wikitext
 categorieshtml - Gives the html version of the categories
 languageshtml  - Gives the html version of the languagelinks
 links          - Gives the internal links in the parsed wikitext
 templates      - Gives the templates in the parsed wikitext
 images         - Gives the images in the parsed wikitext
 externallinks  - Gives the external links in the parsed wikitext
 sections       - Gives the sections in the parsed wikitext
 revid          - Adds the revision id of the parsed page
 displaytitle   - Adds the title of the parsed wikitext
 headitems      - Gives items to put in the <head> of the page
 headhtml       - Gives parsed <head> of the page
 iwlinks        - Gives interwiki links in the parsed wikitext
 wikitext       - Gives the original wikitext that was parsed" default="text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle" multi="" limit="50">
            <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>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="pst" description="Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it
Ignored if page, pageid or oldid is used" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="onlypst" description="Do a pre-save transform (PST) on the input, but don't parse it
Returns the same wikitext, after a PST has been applied. Ignored if page, pageid or oldid is used" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="uselang" description="Which language to parse the request in" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="section" description="Only retrieve the content of this section number" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="disablepp" description="Disable the PP Report from the parser output" type="bool" default="false" />
        </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="missingrev" info="There is no revision ID oldid" />
          <error code="permissiondenied" info="You don't have permission to view deleted revisions" />
          <error code="missingtitle" info="The page you specified doesn't exist" />
          <error code="nosuchsection" info="There is no section sectionnumber in page" />
          <error code="nosuchpageid" info="There is no page with ID $1" />
        </errors>
      </module>
    </modules>
    <querymodules>
      <module classname="ApiQueryAllpages" description="Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace" examples="Simple Use
 Show a list of pages starting at the letter "B"
  api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apfrom=B
Using as Generator
 Show info about 4 pages starting at the letter "T"
  api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=4&gapfrom=T&prop=info
 Show content of first 2 non-redirect pages begining at "Re"
  api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=2&gapfilterredir=nonredirects&gapfrom=Re&prop=revisions&rvprop=content" version="ApiQueryAllpages: $Id: ApiQueryAllpages.php 85354 2011-04-04 18:25:31Z demon $" prefix="ap" readrights="" generator="" name="allpages">
        <parameters>
          <param name="from" description="The page title to start enumerating from" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="to" description="The page title to stop enumerating at" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="prefix" description="Search for all page titles that begin with this value" type="string" default="" />
          <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">
            <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">
            <type>
              <t />
              <t>autoconfirmed</t>
              <t>sysop</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prfiltercascade" description="Filter protections based on cascadingness (ignored when apprtype isn'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>
        </parameters>
        <errors>
          <error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title ``title''" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title ``key''" />
          <error code="params" info="Use "gapfilterredir=nonredirects" option instead of "redirects" 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&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics
api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap&sifilteriw=local
api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag&sishowalldb=" version="ApiQuerySiteinfo: $Id: ApiQuerySiteinfo.php 77192 2010-11-23 22:05:27Z btongminh $" prefix="si" readrights="" name="siteinfo">
        <parameters>
          <param name="prop" description="Which sysinfo properties to get:
 general               - Overall system information
 namespaces            - List of registered namespaces and their canonical names
 namespacealiases      - List of registered namespace aliases
 specialpagealiases    - List of special page aliases
 magicwords            - List of magic words and their aliases
 statistics            - Returns site statistics
 interwikimap          - Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered)
 dbrepllag             - Returns database server with the highest replication lag
 usergroups            - Returns user groups and the associated permissions
 extensions            - Returns extensions installed on the wiki
 fileextensions        - Returns list of file extensions allowed to be uploaded
 rightsinfo            - Returns wiki rights (license) information if available
 languages             - Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports" default="general" multi="" limit="50">
            <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>
            </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" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="numberingroup" description="Lists the number of users in user groups" type="bool" default="false" />
        </parameters>
        <errors>
          <error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title ``title''" />
          <error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title ``key''" />
          <error code="includeAllDenied" info="Cannot view all servers info unless $wgShowHostnames is true" />
        </errors>
      </module>
    </querymodules>
  </paraminfo>
</api>