API talk:Meta
Stupid example
editExample of userinfo query is stupid, because it doesn't show the output, for example, of information about block status, if you aren't blocked -_-. KPu3uC B Poccuu 14:43, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- I don't see the problem here. The example for the example for the
userinfometa query doesn't request theblockinfoproperty so it obviously is never shown. Also note that even if you requestuiprop=blockinfo, the response will only contain such property if the user in question actually is blocked. Krinkle 22:44, 19 January 2012 (UTC)- What I asked is just put here examples of all possible options for users which haven't access to sysop tools to figure it out themselves. KPu3uC B Poccuu (talk) 12:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Block status is not private information. It's openly visibly to anyone, not just to users who have access to sysop tools. For example commons:User:Shake Away is blocked. and this information can be seen in many places:
Special:Contributions/(username),
Special:Log/block?page=User:(username),
api.php list=users&ususers=(username).
And, if you're logged in as a blocked user, also on api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo. Krinkle (talk) 12:35, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Block status is not private information. It's openly visibly to anyone, not just to users who have access to sysop tools. For example commons:User:Shake Away is blocked. and this information can be seen in many places:
- What I asked is just put here examples of all possible options for users which haven't access to sysop tools to figure it out themselves. KPu3uC B Poccuu (talk) 12:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Function hooks and magic words
editI don't understand the results of siprop=functionhooks|magicwords at all. Why is ifeq e.g. both a functionhook and a magicword? And why is stuff with different syntax lumped together in both categories? How am I supposed to know from the list that it's {{#sub:...}} - with a hashmark and a colon - but {{namespace}} - without either? Etc. etc. These lists seem so arbitrary and pointless! Or are there some unmentioned rules behind all of this randomness?
I'm writing a syntaxhighlighter for wikitext in JavaScript and I was hoping I could use these two lists to identify functionhooks and magicwords as such... maybe even highlight syntax errors... -- Pecoes (talk) 09:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
- I agree. These lists are next to useless (
functionhooksas well). — Keφr 10:27, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
babel
edit- returns languages as N although
- has different numbers. --Xoristzatziki (talk) 06:56, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
You're confusing MediaWiki and Wikimedia. Babel is an extension, which has nothing to do with this page which documents the MediaWiki Meta API. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160580 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160580 for WMF related deployment for the Babel API .13:49, 15 July 2017 (UTC)