MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=mergehistory
(main | mergehistory)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module requires write rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Merge page histories.
Parameters:
- from
Title of the page from which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with fromid.
- fromid
Page ID of the page from which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with from.
- Type: integer
- to
Title of the page to which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with toid.
- toid
Page ID of the page to which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with to.
- Type: integer
- timestamp
Timestamp up to which revisions will be moved from the source page's history to the destination page's history. If omitted, the entire page history of the source page will be merged into the destination page.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- reason
Reason for the history merge.
- Default: (empty)
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
Examples:
- Merge the entire history of Oldpage into Newpage.
- api.php?action=mergehistory&from=Oldpage&to=Newpage&token=123ABC&reason=Reason [open in sandbox]
- Merge the page revisions of Oldpage dating up to 2015-12-31T04:37:41Z into Newpage.
- api.php?action=mergehistory&from=Oldpage&to=Newpage&token=123ABC&reason=Reason×tamp=2015-12-31T04%3A37%3A41Z [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
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