MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=options
- This module requires read rights.
- This module requires write rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Change preferences of the current user.
Only options which are registered in core or in one of installed extensions, or options with keys prefixed with userjs-
(intended to be used by user scripts), can be set.
- reset
Resets preferences to the site defaults.
- Type: boolean (details)
- resetkinds
List of types of options to reset when the reset option is set.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): registered, registered-multiselect, registered-checkmatrix, userjs, special, unused, all
- Default: all
- change
List of changes, formatted name=value (e.g. skin=vector). If no value is given (not even an equals sign), e.g., optionname|otheroption|..., the option will be reset to its default value. If any value passed contains the pipe character (|), use the alternative multiple-value separator for correct operation.
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- optionname
The name of the option that should be set to the value given by optionvalue.
- optionvalue
The value for the option specified by optionname.
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
- Reset all preferences.
- api.php?action=options&reset=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Change skin and hideminor preferences.
- api.php?action=options&change=skin=vector|hideminor=1&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Reset all preferences, then set skin and nickname.
- api.php?action=options&reset=&change=skin=monobook&optionname=nickname&optionvalue=[[User:Beau|Beau]]%20([[User_talk:Beau|talk]])&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff
[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuff
IP: 3.15.198.191
Start request GET /mediawiki/api.php?action=help&modules=options
HTTP HEADERS:
CONTENT-TYPE:
CONTENT-LENGTH: 0
USER-AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
REFERER: https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Special:ApiHelp/options
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": "3.15.198.191",
"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 "jjhurgs5f23imqdijvb675pbfrg6gb08" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor
[session] SessionBackend "jjhurgs5f23imqdijvb675pbfrg6gb08" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0
[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715249454", "/", "", "", "1"
[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715249454", "/", "", "", "1"
[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715249454", "/", "", "", "1"
[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715249454", "/", "", "", "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 database
ParserFactory: using preprocessor: Preprocessor_Hash
Unstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::_unstub from ParserOptions->__construct