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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <paraminfo>
    <modules>
      <module classname="ApiParse" description="This module parses wikitext and returns parser output" version="ApiParse: $Id: ApiParse.php 52241 2009-06-21 14:29:32Z catrope $" prefix="" readrights="" name="parse">
        <parameters>
          <param name="title" description="Title of page the text belongs to" default="API" />
          <param name="text" description="Wikitext to parse" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="page" description="Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="redirects" description="If the page parameter is set to a redirect, resolve it" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="oldid" description="Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="prop" description="Which pieces of information to get.&#10;NOTE: Section tree is only generated if there are more than 4 sections, or if the __TOC__ keyword is present" default="text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle" multi="" limit="50">
            <type>
              <t>text</t>
              <t>langlinks</t>
              <t>categories</t>
              <t>links</t>
              <t>templates</t>
              <t>images</t>
              <t>externallinks</t>
              <t>sections</t>
              <t>revid</t>
              <t>displaytitle</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="pst" description="Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it.&#10;Ignored if page or oldid is used." type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="onlypst" description="Do a PST on the input, but don&#039;t parse it.&#10;Returns PSTed wikitext. Ignored if page or oldid is used." type="bool" default="false" />
        </parameters>
      </module>
    </modules>
    <querymodules>
      <module classname="ApiQueryAllpages" description="Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace" version="ApiQueryAllpages: $Id: ApiQueryAllpages.php 46845 2009-02-05 14:30:59Z catrope $" prefix="ap" readrights="" generator="" name="allpages">
        <parameters>
          <param name="from" description="The page title to start enumerating from." type="string" default="" />
          <param name="prefix" description="Search for all page titles that begin with this value." type="string" default="" />
          <param name="namespace" description="The namespace to enumerate." default="0" type="namespace" />
          <param name="filterredir" description="Which pages to list." default="all">
            <type>
              <t>all</t>
              <t>redirects</t>
              <t>nonredirects</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="minsize" description="Limit to pages with at least this many bytes" type="integer" />
          <param name="maxsize" description="Limit to pages with at most this many bytes" type="integer" />
          <param name="prtype" description="Limit to protected pages only" multi="" limit="50">
            <type>
              <t>edit</t>
              <t>move</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prlevel" description="The protection level (must be used with apprtype= parameter)" multi="" limit="50">
            <type>
              <t />
              <t>autoconfirmed</t>
              <t>sysop</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prfiltercascade" description="Filter protections based on cascadingness (ignored when apprtype isn&#039;t set)" default="all">
            <type>
              <t>cascading</t>
              <t>noncascading</t>
              <t>all</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="limit" description="How many total pages to return." default="10" type="limit" max="500" highmax="5000" min="1" />
          <param name="dir" description="The direction in which to list" default="ascending">
            <type>
              <t>ascending</t>
              <t>descending</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="filterlanglinks" description="Filter based on whether a page has langlinks" default="all">
            <type>
              <t>withlanglinks</t>
              <t>withoutlanglinks</t>
              <t>all</t>
            </type>
          </param>
        </parameters>
      </module>
      <module classname="ApiQuerySiteinfo" description="Return general information about the site." version="ApiQuerySiteinfo: $Id: ApiQuerySiteinfo.php 53131 2009-07-12 12:10:27Z btongminh $" prefix="si" readrights="" name="siteinfo">
        <parameters>
          <param name="prop" description="Which sysinfo properties to get:&#10; general      - Overall system information&#10; namespaces   - List of registered namespaces and their canonical names&#10; namespacealiases - List of registered namespace aliases&#10; specialpagealiases - List of special page aliases&#10; magicwords   - List of magic words and their aliases&#10; statistics   - Returns site statistics&#10; interwikimap - Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered)&#10; dbrepllag    - Returns database server with the highest replication lag&#10; usergroups   - Returns user groups and the associated permissions&#10; extensions   - Returns extensions installed on the wiki&#10; fileextensions - Returns list of file extensions allowed to be uploaded&#10; rightsinfo   - Returns wiki rights (license) information if available&#10; languages    - Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports" default="general" multi="" limit="50">
            <type>
              <t>general</t>
              <t>namespaces</t>
              <t>namespacealiases</t>
              <t>specialpagealiases</t>
              <t>magicwords</t>
              <t>interwikimap</t>
              <t>dbrepllag</t>
              <t>statistics</t>
              <t>usergroups</t>
              <t>extensions</t>
              <t>fileextensions</t>
              <t>rightsinfo</t>
              <t>languages</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="filteriw" description="Return only local or only nonlocal entries of the interwiki map">
            <type>
              <t>local</t>
              <t>!local</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="showalldb" description="List all database servers, not just the one lagging the most" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="numberingroup" description="Lists the number of users in user groups" type="bool" default="false" />
        </parameters>
      </module>
    </querymodules>
  </paraminfo>
</api>