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action=expandtemplates
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Expands all templates within wikitext.
- title
Title of the page.
- text
Wikitext to convert.
- This parameter is required.
- revid
Revision ID, for
{{REVISIONID}}and similar variables.- Type: integer
- prop
-
Which pieces of information to get.
Note that if no values are selected, the result will contain the wikitext, but the output will be in a deprecated format.
- wikitext
- The expanded wikitext.
- categories
- Any categories present in the input that are not represented in the wikitext output.
- properties
- Page properties defined by expanded magic words in the wikitext.
- volatile
- Whether the output is volatile and should not be reused elsewhere within the page.
- ttl
- The maximum time after which caches of the result should be invalidated.
- modules
- Any ResourceLoader modules that parser functions have requested be added to the output. Either jsconfigvars or encodedjsconfigvars must be requested jointly with modules.
- jsconfigvars
- Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page.
- encodedjsconfigvars
- Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page as a JSON string.
- parsetree
- The XML parse tree of the input.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): categories, encodedjsconfigvars, jsconfigvars, modules, parsetree, properties, ttl, volatile, wikitext
- includecomments
Whether to include HTML comments in the output.
- Type: boolean (details)
- showstrategykeys
Whether to include internal merge strategy information in jsconfigvars.
- Type: boolean (details)
- generatexml
- Deprecated.
Generate XML parse tree (replaced by prop=parsetree).
- Type: boolean (details)
- templatesandboxprefix
Template sandbox prefix, as with Special:TemplateSandbox.
- Separate values with | or alternative.
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
- templatesandboxtitle
Parse the page using templatesandboxtext in place of the contents of the page named here.
- templatesandboxtext
Parse the page using this page content in place of the page named by templatesandboxtitle.
- templatesandboxcontentmodel
Content model of templatesandboxtext.
- One of the following values: GadgetDefinition, JsonSchema, MassMessageListContent, Scribunto, SecurePoll, css, javascript, json, sanitized-css, text, unknown, wikitext
- templatesandboxcontentformat
Content format of templatesandboxtext.
- One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown
- Expand the wikitext {{Project:Sandbox}}.
- [open in sandbox]