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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <paraminfo>
    <modules>
      <module classname="ApiParse" description="This module parses wikitext and returns parser output" prefix="" readrights="" name="parse">
        <parameters>
          <param name="title" default="API" description="Title of page the text belongs to" />
          <param name="text" />
          <param name="page" />
          <param name="redirects" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="oldid" />
          <param name="prop" default="text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle" multi="" limit="50" description="Which pieces of information to get.
NOTE: Section tree is only generated if there are more than 4 sections, or if the __TOC__ keyword is present">
            <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" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="onlypst" type="bool" default="false" />
        </parameters>
      </module>
    </modules>
    <querymodules>
      <module classname="ApiQueryAllpages" description="Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace" prefix="ap" readrights="" name="allpages">
        <parameters>
          <param name="from" />
          <param name="prefix" />
          <param name="namespace" default="0" type="namespace" description="The namespace to enumerate." />
          <param name="filterredir" default="all" description="Which pages to list.">
            <type>
              <t>all</t>
              <t>redirects</t>
              <t>nonredirects</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="minsize" type="integer" description="Limit to pages with at least this many bytes" />
          <param name="maxsize" type="integer" description="Limit to pages with at most this many bytes" />
          <param name="prtype" multi="" limit="50" description="Limit to protected pages only">
            <type>
              <t>edit</t>
              <t>move</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prlevel" multi="" limit="50" description="The protection level (must be used with apprtype= parameter)">
            <type>
              <t />
              <t>autoconfirmed</t>
              <t>sysop</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="prfiltercascade" default="all" description="Filter protections based on cascadingness (ignored when apprtype isn't set)">
            <type>
              <t>cascading</t>
              <t>noncascading</t>
              <t>all</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="limit" default="10" type="limit" max="500" highmax="5000" min="1" description="How many total pages to return." />
          <param name="dir" default="ascending" description="The direction in which to list">
            <type>
              <t>ascending</t>
              <t>descending</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="filterlanglinks" default="all" description="Filter based on whether a page has langlinks">
            <type>
              <t>withlanglinks</t>
              <t>withoutlanglinks</t>
              <t>all</t>
            </type>
          </param>
        </parameters>
      </module>
      <module classname="ApiQuerySiteinfo" description="Return general information about the site." prefix="si" readrights="" name="siteinfo">
        <parameters>
          <param name="prop" default="general" multi="" limit="50" description="Which sysinfo properties 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
 statistics   - Returns site statistics
 interwikimap - Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered)
 dbrepllag    - Returns database server with the highest replication lag
 usergroups   - Returns user groups and the associated permissions
 extensions   - Returns extensions installed on the wiki
 fileextensions - Returns list of file extensions allowed to be uploaded
 rightsinfo   - Returns wiki rights (license) information if available">
            <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>
            </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" type="bool" default="false" />
        </parameters>
      </module>
    </querymodules>
  </paraminfo>
</api>