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id="toc-API_documentation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#API_documentation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1 API documentation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-API_documentation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Example" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Example"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2 Example </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Example-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Example subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Example-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-POST_request" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#POST_request"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1 POST request </div> </a> <ul id="toc-POST_request-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Response" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Response"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.2 Response </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Response-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sample_code" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sample_code"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3 Sample code </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sample_code-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Python" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Python"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4 Python </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Python-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-PHP" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#PHP"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.5 PHP </div> </a> <ul id="toc-PHP-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-JavaScript" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#JavaScript"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.6 JavaScript </div> </a> <ul id="toc-JavaScript-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-MediaWiki_JS" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#MediaWiki_JS"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.7 MediaWiki JS </div> </a> <ul id="toc-MediaWiki_JS-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Possible_errors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Possible_errors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Possible errors </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Possible_errors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Additional_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Additional_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Additional notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Additional_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button 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href="/w/index.php?title=API_talk:SetPageLanguage/en&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="discussion" class="new" title="Discussion about the content page (page does not exist) [t]" accesskey="t">Discussion</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown emptyPortlet" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Change language variant" > <label id="vector-variants-dropdown-label" for="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" >English </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> 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href="/w/index.php?title=API:SetPageLanguage/en&action=history">View history</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/API:SetPageLanguage/en" title="A list of all wiki pages that link here [j]" accesskey="j">What links here</a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/API:SetPageLanguage/en" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k">Related changes</a></li><li id="t-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard" title="Upload files [u]" accesskey="u">Upload file</a></li><li id="t-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q">Special pages</a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=API:SetPageLanguage/en&oldid=6729812" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page">Permanent link</a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=API:SetPageLanguage/en&action=info" title="More information about this page">Page information</a></li><li id="t-cite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=API%3ASetPageLanguage%2Fen&id=6729812&wpFormIdentifier=titleform" title="Information on how to cite this page">Cite this page</a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FAPI%3ASetPageLanguage%2Fen">Get shortened URL</a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FAPI%3ASetPageLanguage%2Fen">Download QR code</a></li> 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title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Etiquette">Etiquette and usage guidelines</a><a href="/wiki/API:Etiquette" title="API:Etiquette"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Query" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Query">All query modules</a><a href="/wiki/API:Query" title="API:Query"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Properties" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Properties">All page properties</a><a href="/wiki/API:Properties" title="API:Properties"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists">All list modules</a><a href="/wiki/API:Lists" title="API:Lists"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Meta" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Meta">All meta modules</a><a href="/wiki/API:Meta" title="API:Meta"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Data formats">Output formats</a><a href="/wiki/API:Data_formats" title="API:Data formats"> </a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Authentication</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tokens" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Tokens">Get tokens for data modifying operations</a><a href="/wiki/API:Tokens" title="API:Tokens"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Login" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Login">Login</a><a href="/wiki/API:Login" title="API:Login"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Logout" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Logout">Logout</a><a href="/wiki/API:Logout" title="API:Logout"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Assert" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Assert">Verifying authentication (assertions)</a><a href="/wiki/API:Assert" title="API:Assert"> </a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Accounts and Users</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Account_creation" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Account creation">Create an account</a><a href="/wiki/API:Account_creation" title="API:Account creation"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Block" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Block">Block or unblock a user</a><a href="/wiki/API:Block" title="API:Block"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Userinfo" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Userinfo">Get info about the current user</a><a href="/wiki/API:Userinfo" title="API:Userinfo"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Watchlist_feed" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Watchlist feed">Get the current user's watchlist as a feed</a><a href="/wiki/API:Watchlist_feed" title="API:Watchlist feed"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Options" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Options">Change user options</a><a href="/wiki/API:Options" title="API:Options"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:User_group_membership" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:User group membership">Change user group membership</a><a href="/wiki/API:User_group_membership" title="API:User group membership"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Emailuser" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Emailuser">Send an email</a><a href="/wiki/API:Emailuser" title="API:Emailuser"> </a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Page Operations</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Edit" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Edit">Create and edit a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Edit" title="API:Edit"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Get_the_contents_of_a_page" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Get the contents of a page">Get the contents of a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Get_the_contents_of_a_page" title="API:Get the contents of a page"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Upload" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Upload">Upload a file</a><a href="/wiki/API:Upload" title="API:Upload"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Import" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Import">Import a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Import" title="API:Import"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Delete" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Delete">Delete a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Delete" title="API:Delete"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Parsing_wikitext" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Parsing wikitext">Parse content of a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext" title="API:Parsing wikitext"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Watch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Watch">Watch or unwatch a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Watch" title="API:Watch"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Purge" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Purge">Purge cache for page(s)</a><a href="/wiki/API:Purge" title="API:Purge"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Rollback" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Rollback">Rollback a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Rollback" title="API:Rollback"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Move" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Move">Move a page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Move" title="API:Move"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Patrol" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Patrol">Patrol a page or revision</a><a href="/wiki/API:Patrol" title="API:Patrol"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Undelete" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Undelete">Restore revisions of a deleted page</a><a href="/wiki/API:Undelete" title="API:Undelete"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Protect" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Protect">Change a page's protection level</a><a href="/wiki/API:Protect" title="API:Protect"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:SetPageLanguage" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:SetPageLanguage">Change a page's language</a><a href="/wiki/API:SetPageLanguage" title="API:SetPageLanguage"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Changing_wiki_content" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Changing wiki content">More...</a><a href="/wiki/API:Changing_wiki_content" title="API:Changing wiki content"> </a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Search</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Opensearch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Opensearch">Search wiki pages by title (OpenSearch)</a><a href="/wiki/API:Opensearch" title="API:Opensearch"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Search" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Search">Advanced search for wiki pages by title or text</a><a href="/wiki/API:Search" title="API:Search"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Geosearch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Geosearch">Search wiki pages near a location</a><a href="/wiki/API:Geosearch" title="API:Geosearch"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Languagesearch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Languagesearch">Search for a language name</a><a href="/wiki/API:Languagesearch" title="API:Languagesearch"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Prefixsearch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Prefixsearch">Perform a prefix search for page titles</a><a href="/wiki/API:Prefixsearch" title="API:Prefixsearch"> </a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Developer Utilities</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code">Access libraries</a><a href="/wiki/API:Client_code" title="API:Client code"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Cross-site_requests" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Cross-site requests">Cross-site requests</a><a href="/wiki/API:Cross-site_requests" title="API:Cross-site requests"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Extensions" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Extensions">Creating an API module in an extension</a><a href="/wiki/API:Extensions" title="API:Extensions"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Calling_internally" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Calling internally">Using the API in MediaWiki and extensions</a><a href="/wiki/API:Calling_internally" title="API:Calling internally"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Restricting_API_usage" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Restricting API usage">Restricting API usage</a><a href="/wiki/API:Restricting_API_usage" title="API:Restricting API usage"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Localisation" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Localisation">Localisation</a><a href="/wiki/API:Localisation" title="API:Localisation"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Implementation_Strategy" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Implementation Strategy">Implementation Strategy</a><a href="/wiki/API:Implementation_Strategy" title="API:Implementation Strategy"> </a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Tutorials</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tutorial" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Tutorial">Action API Tutorial</a><a href="/wiki/API:Tutorial" title="API:Tutorial"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Article_ideas_generator" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Article ideas generator">Article ideas generator</a><a href="/wiki/API:Article_ideas_generator" title="API:Article ideas generator"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Nearby_places_viewer" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Nearby places viewer">Nearby places viewer</a><a href="/wiki/API:Nearby_places_viewer" title="API:Nearby places viewer"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Picture_of_the_day_viewer" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Picture of the day viewer">Picture of the day viewer</a><a href="/wiki/API:Picture_of_the_day_viewer" title="API:Picture of the day viewer"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Holidays_viewer" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Holidays viewer">Holidays viewer</a><a href="/wiki/API:Holidays_viewer" title="API:Holidays viewer"> </a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-navbar"> <td style=""><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r4692751">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em;width:6em}</style><a href="/wiki/Template:API" title="Template:API">v</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template_talk:API">d</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:API&action=edit">e</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r4199130">.mw-parser-output .mw-version{border:1px solid #72777d;font-size:80%;line-height:1.2;border-collapse:collapse}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-ltr{float:right;margin:0 0 .5em .5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-rtl{float:left;margin:0 .5em .5em 0;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .mw-version td{padding:.1em .3em}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-versionbox{border:5px solid #00af89;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-versionnumber{font-weight:bold;font-size:180%}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#c8ccd1}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2 .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#c8ccd1;border-right-color:#c8ccd1;border-left-color:#c8ccd1}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-unsupported .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#d33}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-unsupported .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#d33;border-right-color:#d33;border-left-color:#d33}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-legacy .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#f93}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-legacy .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#f93;border-right-color:#f93;border-left-color:#f93}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-stable .mw-version-versionbox,.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version.mw-version-and-later .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#00af89}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-stable .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#00af89;border-right-color:#00af89;border-left-color:#00af89}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-future .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#8080c0}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-future .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#8080c0;border-right-color:#8080c0;border-left-color:#8080c0}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-alpha .mw-version-versionbox{border-style:dotted}</style> <table class="mw-version mw-version-ltr mw-version-version mw-version-version-unsupported mw-version-and-later"><tbody><tr> <td>MediaWiki version:</td> <td class="mw-version-versionbox" title="The latest stable version is 1.42"><div class="mw-version-versionnumber">≥ 1.29</div></td> </tr></tbody></table> POST request to change the language of a page. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="API_documentation">API documentation</h2></div> <div style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); background-color: var(--background-color-interactive-subtle, #f8f9fa); padding: 20px; border: 1px solid var(--border-color-divider, #a2a9b1); overflow: hidden;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651108"><table class="ombox ombox-notice plainlinks" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Oxygen480-categories-preferences-system.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Oxygen480-categories-preferences-system.svg/20px-Oxygen480-categories-preferences-system.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Oxygen480-categories-preferences-system.svg/30px-Oxygen480-categories-preferences-system.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Oxygen480-categories-preferences-system.svg/40px-Oxygen480-categories-preferences-system.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></td><td class="mbox-text">The following documentation is the output of <a href="/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/setpagelanguage" title="Special:ApiHelp/setpagelanguage">Special:ApiHelp/setpagelanguage</a>, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).</td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="word-wrap:break-word; overflow-wrap:break-word"><h2 class="apihelp-header apihelp-module-name" dir="ltr" lang="en" id="setpagelanguage">action=setpagelanguage</h2><div class="apihelp-linktrail">(<a href="/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/main" class="apihelp-linktrail" dir="ltr" lang="en">main</a> | setpagelanguage)</div> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-flags"><ul><li>This module requires read rights.</li><li>This module requires write rights.</li><li>This module only accepts POST requests.</li><li>Source: MediaWiki</li><li>License: <a href="/wiki/Special:Version/License/MediaWiki" title="Special:Version/License/MediaWiki">GPL-2.0-or-later</a></li></ul></div> Change the language of a page. <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-help-urls"><ul><li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:SetPageLanguage" dir="ltr">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:SetPageLanguage</a></li></ul></div> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-parameters"><div class="apihelp-block-head">Specific parameters:</div><div class="apihelp-block-header">Other general parameters are available.</div><dl><dt>title</dt><dd class="description">Title of the page whose language you wish to change. Cannot be used together with <var>pageid</var>. </dd><dt>pageid</dt><dd class="description">Page ID of the page whose language you wish to change. Cannot be used together with <var>title</var>. </dd><dd class="info">Type: integer</dd><dt>lang</dt><dd class="description">Language code of the language to change the page to. Use <kbd>default</kbd> to reset the page to the wiki's default content language. </dd><dd class="info">This parameter is required.</dd><dd class="info">One of the following values: aae, ab, abs, ace, acf, acm, ady, ady-cyrl, aeb, aeb-arab, aeb-latn, af, aln, alt, am, ami, an, ang, ann, anp, apc, ar, arc, arn, arq, ary, arz, as, ase, ast, atj, av, avk, awa, ay, az, azb, ba, ban, ban-bali, bar, bbc, bbc-latn, bcc, bci, bcl, bdr, be, be-tarask, bew, bg, bgc, bgn, bh, bho, bi, bjn, blk, bm, bn, bo, bpy, bqi, br, brh, bs, btm, bto, bug, bxr, ca, cbk-zam, ccp, cdo, cdo-hant, cdo-latn, ce, ceb, ch, chn, chr, chy, ckb, co, cps, cpx, cpx-hans, cpx-hant, cr, crh, crh-cyrl, crh-latn, crh-ro, cs, csb, cu, cv, cy, da, dag, de, de-at, de-ch, de-formal, default, dga, din, diq, dsb, dtp, dty, dua, dv, dz, ee, efi, egl, el, eml, en, en-ca, en-gb, eo, es, es-formal, et, eu, ext, fa, fat, ff, fi, fit, fj, fo, fon, fr, frc, frp, frr, fur, fy, ga, gaa, gag, gan, gan-hans, gan-hant, gcf, gcr, gd, gl, gld, glk, gn, gom, gom-deva, gom-latn, gor, got, gpe, grc, gsw, gu, guc, gur, guw, gv, ha, hak, haw, he, hi, hif, hif-latn, hil, hke, hno, hr, hrx, hsb, hsn, ht, hu, hu-formal, hy, hyw, ia, iba, ibb, id, ie, ig, igl, ii, ik, ike-cans, ike-latn, ilo, inh, io, is, isv-cyrl, isv-latn, it, iu, ja, jam, jbo, jut, jv, ka, kaa, kab, kai, kbd, kbd-cyrl, kbp, kcg, kea, kg, kge, khw, ki, kiu, kjh, kjp, kk, kk-arab, kk-cn, kk-cyrl, kk-kz, kk-latn, kk-tr, kl, km, kn, knc, ko, ko-kp, koi, kr, krc, kri, krj, krl, ks, ks-arab, ks-deva, ksh, ksw, ku, ku-arab, ku-latn, kum, kus, kv, kw, ky, la, lad, lb, lbe, lez, lfn, lg, li, lij, liv, lki, lld, lmo, ln, lo, loz, lrc, lt, ltg, lua, lus, luz, lv, lzh, lzz, mad, mag, mai, map-bms, mdf, mg, mhr, mi, min, mk, ml, mn, mnc, mnc-latn, mnc-mong, mni, mnw, mo, mos, mr, mrh, mrj, ms, ms-arab, mt, mui, mwl, my, myv, mzn, na, nah, nan, nan-hant, nan-latn-pehoeji, nan-latn-tailo, nap, nb, nds, nds-nl, ne, new, nia, nit, niu, nl, nl-informal, nmz, nn, no, nod, nog, nov, nqo, nr, nrm, nso, nup, nv, ny, nyn, nyo, nys, oc, ojb, olo, om, or, os, pa, pag, pam, pap, pcd, pcm, pdc, pdt, pfl, pi, pih, pl, pms, pnb, pnt, prg, ps, pt, pt-br, pwn, qu, qug, rgn, rif, rki, rm, rmc, rmy, rn, ro, roa-tara, rsk, ru, rue, rup, ruq, ruq-cyrl, ruq-latn, rut, rw, ryu, sa, sah, sat, sc, scn, sco, sd, sdc, sdh, se, se-fi, se-no, se-se, sei, ses, sg, sgs, sh, sh-cyrl, sh-latn, shi, shn, shy, shy-latn, si, sjd, sje, sk, skr, skr-arab, sl, sli, sm, sma, smn, sms, sn, so, sq, sr, sr-ec, sr-el, srn, sro, ss, st, stq, sty, su, sv, sw, syl, szl, szy, ta, tay, tcy, tdd, te, tet, tg, tg-cyrl, tg-latn, th, ti, tig, tk, tl, tly, tn, to, tok, tpi, tr, tru, trv, ts, tt, tt-cyrl, tt-latn, ttj, tum, tw, ty, tyv, tzm, udm, ug, ug-arab, ug-latn, uk, ur, uz, ve, vec, vep, vi, vls, vmf, vmw, vo, vot, vro, wa, wal, war, wls, wo, wuu, wuu-hans, wuu-hant, xal, xh, xmf, xsy, yi, yo, yrl, yue, yue-hans, yue-hant, za, zea, zgh, zh, zh-cn, zh-hans, zh-hant, zh-hk, zh-mo, zh-my, zh-sg, zh-tw, zu</dd><dt>reason</dt><dd class="description">Reason for the change. </dd><dt>tags</dt><dd class="description">Change tags to apply to the log entry resulting from this action. </dd><dd class="info">Values (separate with <kbd>|</kbd> or <a href="/w/api.php?action=help&modules=main#main/datatypes">alternative</a>): AWB, convenient-discussions</dd><dt>token</dt><dd class="description">A "csrf" token retrieved from <a href="/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btokens">action=query&meta=tokens</a> </dd><dd class="info">This parameter is required.</dd></dl></div> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-examples"><div class="apihelp-block-head">Examples:</div><dl><dt>Change the language of the page <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> to Basque.</dt><dd><a href="/w/api.php?action=setpagelanguage&title=MediaWiki&lang=eu&token=123ABC" dir="ltr" rel="nofollow">api.php?action=setpagelanguage&title=MediaWiki&lang=eu&token=123ABC</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=setpagelanguage&title=MediaWiki&lang=eu&token=123ABC">[open in sandbox]</a></dd><dt>Change the language of the page with ID 123 to the wiki's default content language.</dt><dd><a href="/w/api.php?action=setpagelanguage&pageid=123&lang=default&token=123ABC" dir="ltr" rel="nofollow">api.php?action=setpagelanguage&pageid=123&lang=default&token=123ABC</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=setpagelanguage&pageid=123&lang=default&token=123ABC">[open in sandbox]</a></dd></dl></div> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Example">Example</h2></div> Making any POST request is a multi-step process: <ol> <li>Log in, via one of the methods described on <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Login" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Login">API:Login</a><a href="/wiki/API:Login" title="API:Login"> </a>.</li> <li>GET a <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Edit_token" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Edit token">CSRF token</a><a href="/wiki/Manual:Edit_token" title="Manual:Edit token"> </a>. <div class="plainlinks" style="margin-bottom: 0.3em"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=tokens">api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=tokens</a> <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&meta=tokens">[try in ApiSandbox]</a></div> </li> <li>Send a POST request, with the CSRF token, to take action on a page.</li> </ol> The sample code below covers the final step in detail. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="POST_request">POST request</h4></div> <div class="plainlinks" style="margin-bottom: 0.3em"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=setpagelanguage&pageid=123&lang=eu&token=123ABC&format=json">api.php?action=setpagelanguage&pageid=123&lang=eu&token=123ABC&format=json</a> <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=setpagelanguage&pageid=123&lang=eu&token=123ABC&format=json">[try in ApiSandbox]</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Response">Response</h4></div> <div style="width:60%;"><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-json mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre>{ "setpagelanguage": { "title": "User:Gangleri/tests/bugzilla/04917/MediaWiki:Badtitle", "oldlanguage": "en[def]", "newlanguage": "eu", "logid": 222004 } } </pre></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sample_code">Sample code</h4></div> <div class="mw-gadget-tabbedwindow" style="width:100%"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Python">Python</h3></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-python mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre>#!/usr/bin/python3 """ set_page_language.py MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `SetPageLanguage` module: POST request to change the language of a page MIT License """ import requests S = requests.Session() URL = "https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" # Step 1: GET request to fetch login token PARAMS_0 = { "action": "query", "meta": "tokens", "type": "login", "format": "json" } R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS_0) DATA = R.json() LOGIN_TOKEN = DATA['query']['tokens']['logintoken'] # Step 2: POST request to log in. Use of main account for login is not # supported. Obtain credentials via Special:BotPasswords # (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:BotPasswords) for lgname & lgpassword PARAMS_1 = { "action": "login", "lgname": "bot_user_name", "lgpassword": "bot_password", "lgtoken": LOGIN_TOKEN, "format": "json" } R = S.post(URL, data=PARAMS_1) # Step 3: GET request to fetch CSRF token PARAMS_2 = { "action": "query", "meta": "tokens", "format": "json" } R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS_2) DATA = R.json() CSRF_TOKEN = DATA['query']['tokens']['csrftoken'] # Step 4: POST request to change page language PARAMS_3 = { "action": "setpagelanguage", "pageid": "123", "token": CSRF_TOKEN, "format": "json", "lang": "eu" } R = S.post(URL, data=PARAMS_3) DATA = R.json() print(DATA) </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="PHP">PHP</h3></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><?php /* set_page_language.php MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `SetPageLanguage` module: POST request to change the language of a page MIT license */ $endPoint = "https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; $login_Token = getLoginToken(); // Step 1 loginRequest( $login_Token ); // Step 2 $csrf_Token = getCSRFToken(); // Step 3 set_page_language( $csrf_Token ); // Step 4 // Step 1: GET request to fetch login token function getLoginToken() { global $endPoint; $params1 = [ "action" => "query", "meta" => "tokens", "type" => "login", "format" => "json" ]; $url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params1 ); $ch = curl_init( $url ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" ); $output = curl_exec( $ch ); curl_close( $ch ); $result = json_decode( $output, true ); return $result["query"]["tokens"]["logintoken"]; } // Step 2: POST request to log in. Use of main account for login is not // supported. Obtain credentials via Special:BotPasswords // (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:BotPasswords) for lgname & lgpassword function loginRequest( $logintoken ) { global $endPoint; $params2 = [ "action" => "login", "lgname" => "bot_user_name", "lgpassword" => "bot_password", "lgtoken" => $logintoken, "format" => "json" ]; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $endPoint ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query( $params2 ) ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" ); $output = curl_exec( $ch ); curl_close( $ch ); } // Step 3: GET request to fetch CSRF token function getCSRFToken() { global $endPoint; $params3 = [ "action" => "query", "meta" => "tokens", "format" => "json" ]; $url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params3 ); $ch = curl_init( $url ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" ); $output = curl_exec( $ch ); curl_close( $ch ); $result = json_decode( $output, true ); return $result["query"]["tokens"]["csrftoken"]; } // Step 4: POST request to change page language function set_page_language( $csrftoken ) { global $endPoint; $params4 = [ "action" => "setpagelanguage", "pageid" => "66400", "lang" => "es", "token" => $csrftoken, "format" => "json" ]; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $endPoint ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query( $params4 ) ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" ); $output = curl_exec( $ch ); curl_close( $ch ); echo ( $output ); } </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="JavaScript">JavaScript</h3></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre>/* set_page_language.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `SetPageLanguage` module: POST request to change the language of a page MIT license */ var request = require('request').defaults({jar: true}), url = "https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; // Step 1: GET request to fetch login token function getLoginToken() { var params_0 = { action: "query", meta: "tokens", type: "login", format: "json" }; request.get({ url: url, qs: params_0 }, function (error, res, body) { if (error) { return; } var data = JSON.parse(body); loginRequest(data.query.tokens.logintoken); }); } // Step 2: POST request to log in. // Use of main account for login is not // supported. Obtain credentials via Special:BotPasswords // (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:BotPasswords) for lgname & lgpassword function loginRequest(login_token) { var params_1 = { action: "login", lgname: "bot_username", lgpassword: "bot_password", lgtoken: login_token, format: "json" }; request.post({ url: url, form: params_1 }, function (error, res, body) { if (error) { return; } getCsrfToken(); }); } // Step 3: GET request to fetch CSRF token function getCsrfToken() { var params_2 = { action: "query", meta: "tokens", format: "json" }; request.get({ url: url, qs: params_2 }, function(error, res, body) { if (error) { return; } var data = JSON.parse(body); set_page_language(data.query.tokens.csrftoken); }); } // Step 4: POST request to change page language function set_page_language(csrf_token) { var params_3 = { action: "setpagelanguage", pageid: "66400", lang: "es", token: csrf_token, format: "json" }; request.post({ url: url, form: params_3 }, function (error, res, body) { if (error) { return; } console.log(body); }); } // Start From Step 1 getLoginToken(); </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MediaWiki_JS">MediaWiki JS</h3></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre>/* set_page_language.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `SetPageLanguage` module: POST request to change the language of a page MIT License */ var params = { action: 'setpagelanguage', pageid: '66400', lang: 'es', format: 'json' }, api = new mw.Api(); api.postWithToken( 'csrf', params ).done( function ( data ) { console.log( data ); } ); </pre></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Possible_errors">Possible errors</h2></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Code </th> <th>Info </th></tr> <tr> <td>notoken </td> <td>The <var>token</var> parameter must be set. </td></tr> <tr> <td>pagelang-disabled </td> <td>Changing the language of a page is not allowed on this wiki. </td></tr> <tr> <td>pagelang-unchanged-language </td> <td>The page title is already set to language lang. </td></tr> <tr> <td>pagelang-db-failed </td> <td>The database failed to change the page language. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Additional_notes">Additional notes</h2></div> <ul><li>For MediaWiki site administrators and extension developers: feature provided by this module has to be enabled by <code class="mw-highlight"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgPageLanguageUseDB" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgPageLanguageUseDB">$wgPageLanguageUseDB</a><a href="/wiki/Manual:$wgPageLanguageUseDB" title="Manual:$wgPageLanguageUseDB"> </a> = true</code> (see <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language#Page_content_language" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language">Manual:Language</a><a href="/wiki/Manual:Language#Page_content_language" title="Manual:Language"> </a>).</li> <li>This module cannot be used as a <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Query#Generators" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Query">generator</a><a href="/wiki/API:Query#Generators" title="API:Query"> </a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language#Page_content_language" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language">Manual:Language</a><a href="/wiki/Manual:Language#Page_content_language" title="Manual:Language"> </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Protect" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Protect">API:Protect</a><a href="/wiki/API:Protect" title="API:Protect"> </a></li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=API:SetPageLanguage/en&oldid=6729812">https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=API:SetPageLanguage/en&oldid=6729812</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_action_API/en" title="Category:MediaWiki action API/en">MediaWiki action API/en</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 29 August 2024, at 18:21.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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