MediaWiki API help
Affiliate recommendation
Explore linguistics, Hebrew, and Bible study books 📚
Interested in how languages work? Discover books on linguistics, phonetics, grammar, etymology, semantics, Hebrew language studies, Biblical Hebrew, modern Hebrew, Bible study resources, commentaries, concordances, and the science of human language.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki Action API documentation page.
meta=siteinfo (si)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Return general information about the site.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- 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.
- interwikimap
- Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered, optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode).
- dbrepllag
- Returns database server with the highest replication lag.
- statistics
- Returns site statistics.
- usergroups
- Returns user groups and the associated permissions.
- autocreatetempuser
- Returns configuration for the automatic creation of temporary user accounts (also known as IP masking).
- clientlibraries
- Returns client-side libraries installed on the wiki
- libraries
- Returns libraries installed on the wiki.
- extensions
- Returns extensions installed on the wiki.
- fileextensions
- Returns list of file extensions (file types) 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).
- languagevariants
- Returns a list of language codes for which LanguageConverter is enabled, and the variants supported for each.
- skins
- Returns a list of all enabled skins (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode, otherwise in the content language).
- extensiontags
- Returns a list of parser extension tags.
- functionhooks
- Returns a list of magic word IDs for parser functions.
- showhooks
- Returns a list of all subscribed hooks (contents of $wgHooks).
- variables
- Returns a list of magic word IDs for magic variables.
- doubleunderscores
- Returns a list of magic word IDs for behavior switches.
- protocols
- Returns a list of protocols that are allowed in external links.
- defaultoptions
- Returns the default values for user preferences.
- uploaddialog
- Returns the upload dialog configuration.
- autopromote
- Returns the automatic promotion configuration.
- autopromoteonce
- Returns the automatic promotion configuration that are only done once.
- copyuploaddomains
- Returns the list of allowed copy upload domains
- sbom
- Returns a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for the MediaWiki installation in the CycloneDX 1.6 format.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): autocreatetempuser, autopromote, autopromoteonce, clientlibraries, copyuploaddomains, dbrepllag, defaultoptions, doubleunderscores, extensions, extensiontags, fileextensions, functionhooks, general, interwikimap, languages, languagevariants, libraries, magicwords, namespacealiases, namespaces, protocols, restrictions, rightsinfo, sbom, showhooks, skins, specialpagealiases, statistics, uploaddialog, usergroups, variables
- Default: general
- sifilteriw
Return only local or only nonlocal entries of the interwiki map.
- One of the following values: !local, local
- sishowalldb
List all database servers, not just the one lagging the most.
- Type: boolean (details)
- sinumberingroup
Lists the number of users in user groups.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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 [open in sandbox]
- Fetch a list of local interwiki prefixes.
- api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap&sifilteriw=local [open in sandbox]
- Check the current replication lag.
- api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag&sishowalldb= [open in sandbox]