MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=revisiondelete
(main | revisiondelete)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module requires write rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Delete and undelete revisions.
Parameters:
- type
Type of revision deletion being performed.
- This parameter is required.
- One of the following values: revision, archive, oldimage, filearchive, logging
- target
Page title for the revision deletion, if required for the type.
- ids
Identifiers for the revisions to be deleted.
- This parameter is required.
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- hide
What to hide for each revision.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): content, comment, user
- show
What to unhide for each revision.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): content, comment, user
- suppress
Whether to suppress data from administrators as well as others.
- One of the following values: yes, no, nochange
- Default: nochange
- reason
Reason for the deletion or undeletion.
- tags
Tags to apply to the entry in the deletion log.
- Values (separate with | or alternative):
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
Examples:
- Hide content for revision 12345 on the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=revisiondelete&target=Main%20Page&type=revision&ids=12345&hide=content&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Hide all data on log entry 67890 with the reason BLP violation.
- api.php?action=revisiondelete&type=logging&ids=67890&hide=content|comment|user&reason=BLP%20violation&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
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}[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 "oc3adnidh9etgithb9jve29dqbepfdqh" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "oc3adnidh9etgithb9jve29dqbepfdqh" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715249272", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715249272", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715249272", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715249272", "/", "", "", "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