MediaWiki API help
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prop=info (in)
- This module requires read rights.
 - Source: MediaWiki
 - License: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
Get basic page information.
- inprop
 Which additional properties to get:
- protection
 - List the protection level of each page.
 - talkid
 - The page ID of the talk page for each non-talk page.
 - watched
 - List the watched status of each page.
 - watchers
 - The number of watchers, if allowed.
 - visitingwatchers
 - The number of watchers of each page who have visited recent edits to that page, if allowed.
 - notificationtimestamp
 - The watchlist notification timestamp of each page.
 - subjectid
 - The page ID of the parent page for each talk page.
 - associatedpage
 - The prefixed title of the associated subject or talk page.
 - url
 - Gives a full URL, an edit URL, and the canonical URL for each page.
 - readable
 - Deprecated. Whether the user can read this page. Use intestactions=read instead.
 - preload
 - Deprecated. Gives the text returned by EditFormPreloadText. Use preloadcontent instead, which supports other kinds of preloaded text too.
 - preloadcontent
 - Gives the content to be shown in the editor when the page does not exist or while adding a new section.
 - editintro
 - Gives the intro messages that should be shown to the user while editing this page or revision, as HTML.
 - displaytitle
 - Gives the manner in which the page title is actually displayed.
 - varianttitles
 - Gives the display title in all variants of the site content language.
 - linkclasses
 - Gives the additional CSS classes (e.g. link colors) used for links to this page if they were to appear on the page named by inlinkcontext.
 
- Values (separate with | or alternative): associatedpage, displaytitle, editintro, linkclasses, notificationtimestamp, preloadcontent, protection, subjectid, talkid, url, varianttitles, visitingwatchers, watched, watchers, preload, readable
 - inlinkcontext
 The context title to use when determining extra CSS classes (e.g. link colors) when inprop contains linkclasses.
- Type: page title
 - Accepts non-existent pages.
 - Default: INTRO2THL
 - intestactions
 Test whether the current user can perform certain actions on the page.
- Separate values with | or alternative.
 - Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
 - intestactionsdetail
 Detail level for intestactions. Use the main module's errorformat and errorlang parameters to control the format of the messages returned.
- boolean
 - Return a boolean value for each action.
 - full
 - Return messages describing why the action is disallowed, or an empty array if it is allowed.
 - quick
 - Like full but skipping expensive checks.
 
- One of the following values: boolean, full, quick
 - Default: boolean
 - intestactionsautocreate
 Test whether performing intestactions would automatically create a temporary account.
- Type: boolean (details)
 - inpreloadcustom
 Title of a custom page to use as preloaded content.
- Only used when inprop contains preloadcontent.
 - inpreloadparams
 Parameters for the custom page being used as preloaded content.
- Only used when inprop contains preloadcontent.
 - Separate values with | or alternative.
 - Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
 - inpreloadnewsection
 Return preloaded content for a new section on the page, rather than a new page.
- Only used when inprop contains preloadcontent.
 - Type: boolean (details)
 - ineditintrostyle
 Some intro messages come with optional wrapper frames. Use moreframes to include them or lessframes to omit them.
- Only used when inprop contains editintro.
 - One of the following values: lessframes, moreframes
 - Default: moreframes
 - ineditintroskip
 List of intro messages to remove from the response. Use this if a specific message is not relevant to your tool, or if the information is conveyed in a different way.
- Only used when inprop contains editintro.
 - Separate values with | or alternative.
 - Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
 - ineditintrocustom
 Title of a custom page to use as an additional intro message.
- Only used when inprop contains editintro.
 - incontinue
 When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
- Get information about the page INTRO2THL.
 - api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=INTRO2THL [open in sandbox]
 - Get general and protection information about the page INTRO2THL.
 - api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=protection&titles=INTRO2THL [open in sandbox]