API:Query - Meta

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Meta queries return information which is not associated with pages.

[edit] siteinfo / si

Returns overall site information.

[edit] Parameters

• siprop: Which properties to get
  • general: General site information (default)
  • namespaces: A list of all namespaces
  • namespacealiases: A list of all namespace aliases (>MW 1.10)
  • specialpagealiases: A list of all special page aliases (>MW 1.10)
  • magicwords: A list of magic words and their aliases (>MW 1.13)
  • statistics: Site statistics à la Special:Statistics(>MW 1.10)
  • interwikimap: A list of all interwiki prefixes and where they go (>MW 1.10)
  • dbrepllag: Get information about the database server with the highest replication lag(>MW 1.10)
  • usergroups: A list of all user groups and their permissions (>MW 1.10)
  • extensions: A list of extensions installed on the wiki (>MW 1.13)
  • fileextensions: A list of file extensions allowed to be uploaded (>MW 1.13)
  • rightsinfo: Get information about the license governing the wiki's content (>MW 1.13)
• sifilteriw: Criteria to filter the interwiki map by (ignored if siprop=interwikimap isn't set)
  • local: Only list local interwiki prefixes
  • !local: Only list non-local interwiki prefixes
• sishowalldb: Show information about all DB servers (ignored if siprop=dbrepllag isn't set)

[edit] Example

General site info

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <general mainpage="Main Page" base="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"
    sitename="Wikipedia" generator="MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf" phpversion="5.2.4-2ubuntu5wm1"
    phpsapi="apache2handler" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="4.0.40-wikimedia-log" rev="54192"
    case="first-letter" rights="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported" lang="en"
    fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0"
    articlepath="/wiki/$1" scriptpath="/w" script="/w/index.php" variantarticlepath=""
    server="http://en.wikipedia.org" wikiid="enwiki" />
  </query>
</api>

[edit] Possible errors

• code: includeAllDenied
  • info: Cannot view all servers info unless $wgShowHostnames is true

[edit] userinfo / ui

Returns information about the currently logged-in user.

[edit] Parameters

• uiprop: Which properties to get
  • blockinfo: Whether the current user is blocked, by whom, and why
  • hasmsg: Whether the current user has new messages on their user talk page
  • groups: Which groups the current user belongs to
  • rights: Which rights the current user has
  • changeablegroups: Which groups the current user can add/remove
  • options: Which preferences the current user has
  • editcount: The number of edits the current user has made
  • ratelimits: Rate limits applying to the current user
  • email: Email address and authentication timestamp in ISO 8601 format [1.15+]

[edit] Example

General user info

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <userinfo name="Jborme" messages="">
      <rights>
        <r>createaccount</r>
        <r>read</r>
        <r>edit</r>
        <r>createpage</r>
        <r>createtalk</r>
        <r>reupload-own</r>
        <r>read</r>
        <r>edit</r>
        <r>createpage</r>
        <r>createtalk</r>
        <r>upload</r>
        <r>minoredit</r>
        <r>purge</r>
        <r>reupload</r>
        <r>move</r>
        <r>autoconfirmed</r>
        <r>skipcaptcha</r>
        <r>emailconfirmed</r>
      </rights>
    </userinfo>
  </query>
</api>

[edit] Possible errors

None.

[edit] allmessages / am

Lists the contents of all (or a few) interface messages.

[edit] Parameters

• ammessages: Only list these messages
• amfilter: Only list messages whose name contains this string
• amlang: Translate messages to this language

[edit] Example

Get the Dutch translations of some messages

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allmessages>
      <message name="august">augustus</message>
      <message name="mainpage">Hoofdpagina</message>
      <message name="edit">Bewerken</message>
      <message name="rollback-success">Wijzigingen door $1 teruggedraaid; laatste versie van $2 hersteld.</message>
      <message name="thismessagedoesntexist" missing="" />
    </allmessages>
  </query>
</api>

[edit] Possible errors

None.