Actions
Actions are tools that work on a page or the whole wiki, but unlike macros do not add to the page content when viewing a page, but work on that page content. They either produce some output based on page contents (navigational actions like searching) or implement functions that are not related to viewing a page (like deleting or renaming a page).
There is a set of system-defined actions, which includes page editing; you can extend the set of known actions by your own ones. See HelpForDevelopers for more on that.
The following actions are added to the list of user-defined extension actions at the bottom of each page (or in the "More actions" menu). This happens to any mixed-case extension, for other actions (all lower-case) see the list further down this page. Some of these action might not be available for your wiki site.
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AttachFile |
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attach files to a page, see /AttachFile for more details. |
This action is not granted if you are not logged in. |
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DeletePage |
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Delete a page, after you confirmed it; deletion means a final backup copy is created and only then the page is deleted, i.e. you can revive the page later on (as long as the backups are not physically deleted). |
This action is not granted if you are not logged in. |
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RenamePage |
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Rename a page, after you confirmed it. |
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LikePages |
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list pages whose title starts or ends with the same WikiWord as the current page title. |
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LocalSiteMap |
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show nearby links of the current page, i.e. list all referred-to pages, and in turn their references, to a certain limited depth. |
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SpellCheck |
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call the spell checker for the current page; see HelpOnSpellCheck for more. |
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SubscribeUser |
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Administrators can use it to subscribe other users to pages |
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The following is a list of internal actions that are used to implement the various icons and links at the top and bottom of pages, or supplement certain macros.
Action |
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titleindex |
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Implements the listing of all page names as text (append ?action=titleindex to your wiki address) or XML (?action=titleindex&mimetype=text/xml); the main use of this action is to enable MetaWiki. |
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fullsearch |
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this action is triggered by clicking on the "Search Text" button of the FullSearch macro (?action=fullsearch&value=HelpOnActions). |
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titlesearch |
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this action is triggered by clicking on the "Search Titles" button of the TitleSearch macro (?action=titlesearch&value=HelpOnActions). |
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inlinesearch |
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this implements the inline search for the form fields at the bottom of each page (note that this uses POST requests, so you won't normally see this action in URLs). |
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highlight |
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highlight the search word when you click on a link in a search result list. |
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diff |
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display differences between page revisions. |
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info |
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show meta-data on a page. |
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recall |
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display an older revision of a page. |
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show |
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display a page (the default action). |
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refresh |
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refresh the cached version of a page (currently only used on XSLT-formatted pages). |
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show the print-view of a page, which omits the navigational items from the display view. |
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edit |
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edit this page. |
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savepage |
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save this page (do not ever use this manually). |
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subscribe |
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subscribe to a page. |
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userform |
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save user preferences. |
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bookmark |
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set bookmark for RecentChanges. |
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raw |
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send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for backup purposes via wget); SystemInfo?action=raw will show the markup of SystemInfo. |
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format |
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emit specially formatted views of a page. Parameter mimetype specifies the wanted mime-type. |
You can generate DocBook markup from your pages by appending ?action=format&mimetype=xml/docbook to the address. Note that you need to install PyXML to use it. |
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rss_rc |
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generate a RSS feed of RecentChanges. |
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chart |
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display charts. |
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export |
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export the wiki content. |
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content |
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for transclusion into static web pages, this action emits the pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags. |
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links |
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generates a list of all pages and the links on them, just like LinkDatabase. |
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sitemap |
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generates a Google XML sitemap, see Sitemap protocol |
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xmlrpc |
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Wiki XML-RPC interface, see XmlRpcToWiki. |
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revert |
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revert to an older version of the page. |
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