MediaWiki API help

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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

action=visualeditoredit

(main | visualeditoredit)
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  • This module only accepts POST requests.

Save an HTML5 page to MediaWiki (converted to wikitext via the Parsoid service).

Parameters:
page

The page to perform actions on.

This parameter is required.
token

A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.
wikitext
(no description)
basetimestamp

When saving, set this to the timestamp of the revision that was edited. Used to detect edit conflicts.

starttimestamp

When saving, set this to the timestamp of when the page was loaded. Used to detect edit conflicts.

oldid

The revision number to use. Defaults to latest revision. Use 0 for a new page.

minor

Flag for minor edit.

watch
(no description)
html

HTML to send to Parsoid in exchange for wikitext.

summary

Edit summary.

captchaid

Captcha ID (when saving with a captcha response).

captchaword

Answer to the captcha (when saving with a captcha response).

cachekey

Use the result of a previous serializeforcache request with this key. Overrides html.