MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=help
(main | help)
Display help for the specified modules.
Parameters:
- modules
Modules to display help for (values of the action= and format= parameters, or "main"). Can specify submodules with a "+".
- Separate values with "|". Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- Default: main
- submodules
Include help for submodules of the named module.
- recursivesubmodules
Include help for submodules recursively.
- wrap
Wrap the output in a standard API response structure.
- toc
Include a table of contents in the HTML output.
Examples:
- Help for the main module
- api.php?action=help
- All help in one page
- api.php?action=help&recursivesubmodules=1
- Help for the help module itself
- api.php?action=help&modules=help
- Help for two query submodules
- api.php?action=help&modules=query+info|query+categorymembers