API:Usercontribs

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MediaWiki version:

1.10

Gets a list of contributions made by a given user, ordered by modification time. This module cannot be used as a generator.

Parameters

• ucuser: User to retrieve contributions for
• ucuserprefix: List contributions of all users whose name starts with this string. Overrides ucuser
  • This is useful for getting contributions of IP ranges.
  • Note that contributions will be sorted by user first, then by timestamp, when using this option
• ucstart: The timestamp to start listing from (see API:Data formats#Timestamps)
• ucend: The timestamp to end listing at (see API:Data formats#Timestamps)
• uccontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue
• ucdir: Direction to list in
  • older: List newest contributions first (default). Note: ucstart has to be later than ucend.
    • If using ucuserprefix, users will be listed in descending order (Z to A)
  • newer: List oldest contributions first. Note: ucstart has to be before ucend.
    • If using ucuserprefix, users will be listed in ascending order (A to Z)
• uclimit: Maximum amount of contributions to list (10 by default)
• ucnamespace: Only list contributions in these namespaces (numeric value)
• ucshow: Only list contributions that meet these criteria. Conflicting options (such as minor and !minor) cannot be used together
  • minor: Only list minor edits
  • !minor: Don't list minor edits
  • patrolled: Only list patrolled edits. Only available to users with the patrol right
  • !patrolled: Only list non-patrolled edits. Only available to users with the patrol right
    • If patrolled or !patrolled is used, revisions older than $wgRCMaxAge will not be shown.
• ucprop: Which properties to get
  • ids: Page ID and revision ID. Starting in MediaWiki 1.22 this will also include the parent revision's id.
  • title: Title of the page that was changed
  • timestamp: Time and date of the contribution
  • comment: Edit/log comment
  • parsedcomment: Parsed edit/log comment
  • size: Size of the edit
  • sizediff: Size delta between the edit and its parent
  • patrolled: Whether the change is patrolled. Only available to users with the patrol right
  • flags:
    • new: A new page was created
    • minor: The change was a minor edit
    • bot: The change was a bot edit
    • top: This is the latest version of the article
  • tags: List of tags for the edit

Example

Get the first three contributions by en:User:Catrope

api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser=Catrope&uclimit=3&ucdir=newer

Error Codes

• code: ucparam_user
  • info: User name username is not valid
• code: ucparam_user
  • info: User parameter may not be empty
• code: ucshow
  • info: Incorrect parameter - mutually exclusive values may not be supplied
• code: permissiondenied
  • info: You need the patrol right to request the patrolled flag