MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=import
- This module requires read rights.
- This module requires write rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Import a page from another wiki, or from an XML file.
Note that the HTTP POST must be done as a file upload (i.e. using multipart/form-data) when sending a file for the xml parameter.
- summary
Log entry import summary.
- xml
Uploaded XML file.
- Must be posted as a file upload using multipart/form-data.
- interwikiprefix
For uploaded imports: interwiki prefix to apply to unknown user names (and known users if assignknownusers is set).
- interwikisource
For interwiki imports: wiki to import from.
- One of the following values:
- interwikipage
For interwiki imports: page to import.
- fullhistory
For interwiki imports: import the full history, not just the current version.
- Type: boolean (details)
- templates
For interwiki imports: import all included templates as well.
- Type: boolean (details)
- namespace
Import to this namespace. Cannot be used together with rootpage.
- One of the following values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 828, 829, 2300, 2301, 2302, 2303
- assignknownusers
Assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally.
- Type: boolean (details)
- rootpage
Import as subpage of this page. Cannot be used together with namespace.
- tags
Change tags to apply to the entry in the import log and to the null revision on the imported pages.
- Values (separate with | or alternative):
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
- Import meta:Help:ParserFunctions to namespace 100 with full history.
- api.php?action=import&interwikisource=meta&interwikipage=Help:ParserFunctions&namespace=100&fullhistory=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuffIP: 3.149.27.125Start request GET /mediawiki/api.php?action=help&modules=import
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REFERER: https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Special:ApiHelp/import
HOST: zero-k.info
ACCEPT-ENCODING: gzip, br, zstd, deflate
ACCEPT: */*
CONNECTION: close[localisation] LocalisationCache: using store LCStoreDB[session] SessionManager using store SqlBagOStuff[DBReplication] Cannot use ChronologyProtector with EmptyBagOStuff[DBReplication] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory::getChronologyProtector: request info {
"IPAddress": "3.149.27.125",
"UserAgent": "Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot\/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"ChronologyProtection": false,
"ChronologyPositionIndex": 0,
"ChronologyClientId": false
}[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::lazyLoadReplicationPositions: executed chronology callback.[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[session] SessionBackend "6usg6npveh5mtho8rj5k5bgqohquj01s" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "6usg6npveh5mtho8rj5k5bgqohquj01s" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715249393", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715249393", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715249393", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715249393", "/", "", "", "1"[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.[MessageCache] MessageCache using store SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] SqlBagOStuff::lock failed due to timeout for wikidb229-mw_:messages:en.[ContentHandler] Created handler for wikitext: WikitextContentHandler[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[MessageCache] MessageCache::load: Loading en... local cache is empty, global cache is expired/volatile, loading from databaseParserFactory: using preprocessor: Preprocessor_HashUnstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::_unstub from ParserOptions->__construct