MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
meta=siteinfo (si)
- This module requires read rights.
Return general information about the site.
Parameters:
- siprop
Which information 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, (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode)).
- 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.
- restrictions
- Returns information on available restriction (protection) types.
- languages
- Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode).
- skins
- Returns a list of all enabled skins (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode, otherwise in content language).
- extensiontags
- Returns a list of parser extension tags.
- functionhooks
- Returns a list of parser function hooks.
- showhooks
- Returns a list of all subscribed hooks (contents of $wgHooks).
- variables
- Returns a list of variable IDs.
- protocols
- Returns a list of protocols that are allowed in external links.
- defaultoptions
- Returns the default values for user preferences.
- Values (separate with "|"): general, namespaces, namespacealiases, specialpagealiases, magicwords, interwikimap, dbrepllag, statistics, usergroups, extensions, fileextensions, rightsinfo, restrictions, languages, skins, extensiontags, functionhooks, showhooks, variables, protocols, defaultoptions
- Default: general
- sifilteriw
Return only local or only nonlocal entries of the interwiki map.
- One value: local, !local
- sishowalldb
List all database servers, not just the one lagging the most.
- sinumberingroup
Lists the number of users in user groups.
- siinlanguagecode
Language code for localised language names (best effort) and skin names.
Examples:
- Fetch site information
- api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics
- Fetch a list of local interwiki prefixes
- api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap&sifilteriw=local
- Check the current replication lag
- api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag&sishowalldb=