MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=delete
(main | delete)
- 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 a page.
Parameters:
- title
Title of the page to delete. Cannot be used together with pageid.
- pageid
Page ID of the page to delete. Cannot be used together with title.
- Type: integer
- reason
Reason for the deletion. If not set, an automatically generated reason will be used.
- tags
Change tags to apply to the entry in the deletion log.
- Values (separate with | or alternative):
- watch
- Deprecated.
Add the page to the current user's watchlist.
- Type: boolean (details)
- watchlist
Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences or do not change watch.
- One of the following values: watch, unwatch, preferences, nochange
- Default: preferences
- unwatch
- Deprecated.
Remove the page from the current user's watchlist.
- Type: boolean (details)
- oldimage
The name of the old image to delete as provided by action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=archivename.
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
Examples:
- Delete Main Page.
- api.php?action=delete&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Delete Main Page with the reason Preparing for move.
- api.php?action=delete&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&reason=Preparing%20for%20move [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuffIP: 18.219.103.116Start request GET /mediawiki/api.php?action=help&modules=delete
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)
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": "18.219.103.116",
"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 "db5fqo2vc5721k271gb2fgu54m8jt37e" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "db5fqo2vc5721k271gb2fgu54m8jt37e" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715221909", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715221909", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715221909", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715221909", "/", "", "", "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