MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=edit
- This module requires read rights.
- This module requires write rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- மூலம்: MediaWiki
- அனுமதி: GPL-2.0+
Create and edit pages.
- title
Title of the page to edit. Cannot be used together with pageid.
- pageid
Page ID of the page to edit. Cannot be used together with title.
- Type: integer
- section
Section number. 0 for the top section, new for a new section.
- sectiontitle
The title for a new section.
- text
Page content.
- summary
Edit summary. Also section title when section=new and sectiontitle is not set.
- tags
Change tags to apply to the revision.
- Values (separate with | or alternative):
- minor
Minor edit.
- Type: boolean (details)
- notminor
Non-minor edit.
- Type: boolean (details)
- bot
Mark this edit as a bot edit.
- Type: boolean (details)
- basetimestamp
Timestamp of the base revision, used to detect edit conflicts. May be obtained through action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- starttimestamp
Timestamp when the editing process began, used to detect edit conflicts. An appropriate value may be obtained using curtimestamp when beginning the edit process (e.g. when loading the page content to edit).
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- recreate
Override any errors about the page having been deleted in the meantime.
- Type: boolean (details)
- createonly
Don't edit the page if it exists already.
- Type: boolean (details)
- nocreate
Throw an error if the page doesn't exist.
- Type: boolean (details)
- watch
- Deprecated.
Add the page to the current user's watchlist.
- Type: boolean (details)
- unwatch
- Deprecated.
Remove the page from the current user's watchlist.
- Type: boolean (details)
- watchlist
Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences or do not change watch.
- One of the following values: watch, unwatch, preferences, nochange
- Default: preferences
- md5
The MD5 hash of the text parameter, or the prependtext and appendtext parameters concatenated. If set, the edit won't be done unless the hash is correct.
- prependtext
Add this text to the beginning of the page. Overrides text.
- appendtext
Add this text to the end of the page. Overrides text.
Use section=new to append a new section, rather than this parameter.
- undo
Undo this revision. Overrides text, prependtext and appendtext.
- Type: integer
- undoafter
Undo all revisions from undo to this one. If not set, just undo one revision.
- Type: integer
- redirect
Automatically resolve redirects.
- Type: boolean (details)
- contentformat
Content serialization format used for the input text.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- contentmodel
Content model of the new content.
- One of the following values: wikitext, javascript, json, css, text
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
The token should always be sent as the last parameter, or at least after the text parameter.
- This parameter is required.
- Edit a page.
- api.php?action=edit&title=Test&summary=test%20summary&text=article%20content&basetimestamp=2007-08-24T12:34:54Z&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Prepend __NOTOC__ to a page.
- api.php?action=edit&title=Test&summary=NOTOC&minor=&prependtext=__NOTOC__%0A&basetimestamp=2007-08-24T12:34:54Z&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Undo revisions 13579 through 13585 with autosummary.
- api.php?action=edit&title=Test&undo=13585&undoafter=13579&basetimestamp=2007-08-24T12:34:54Z&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]