This is the HTML representation of the $1 format. HTML is good for debugging, but is unsuitable for application use.

Specify the <var>format</var> parameter to change the output format. To see the non-HTML representation of the $1 format, set <kbd>format=$2</kbd>.

See the [[mw:API|complete documentation]], or the [[Special:ApiHelp/main|API help]] for more information.

This is an HTML representation intended for debugging, and is unsuitable for application use.

See the [[mw:API|complete documentation]], or the [[Special:ApiHelp/main|API help]] for more information.

Modules to display help for (values of the <var>action</var> and <var>format</var> parameters, or <kbd>main</kbd>). Can specify submodules with a <kbd>+</kbd>.

{{doc-paramdesc|views}}

The [https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Filtered_format result format "filtered"], part of the Semantic Result Formats extension, displays results in switchable '''views''', e.g. as map, as table, as calendar, etc.

This text is a description of the parameter "views" to the function that generates the "filtered" result format.

Synonyms for '''views''' might be representation, or maybe appearance, aspect, facet

Some parameter types in API requests need further explanation:
;boolean
:Boolean parameters work like HTML checkboxes: if the parameter is specified, regardless of value, it is considered true. For a false value, omit the parameter entirely.
;timestamp
:Timestamps may be specified in several formats. ISO 8601 date and time is recommended. All times are in UTC, any included timezone is ignored.
:* ISO 8601 date and time, <kbd><var>2001</var>-<var>01</var>-<var>15</var>T<var>14</var>:<var>56</var>:<var>00</var>Z</kbd> (punctuation and <kbd>Z</kbd> are optional)
:* ISO 8601 date and time with (ignored) fractional seconds, <kbd><var>2001</var>-<var>01</var>-<var>15</var>T<var>14</var>:<var>56</var>:<var>00</var>.<var>00001</var>Z</kbd> (dashes, colons, and <kbd>Z</kbd> are optional)
:* MediaWiki format, <kbd><var>2001</var><var>01</var><var>15</var><var>14</var><var>56</var><var>00</var></kbd>
:* Generic numeric format, <kbd><var>2001</var>-<var>01</var>-<var>15</var> <var>14</var>:<var>56</var>:<var>00</var></kbd> (optional timezone of <kbd>GMT</kbd>, <kbd>+<var>##</var></kbd>, or <kbd>-<var>##</var></kbd> is ignored)
:* EXIF format, <kbd><var>2001</var>:<var>01</var>:<var>15</var> <var>14</var>:<var>56</var>:<var>00</var></kbd>
:*RFC 2822 format (timezone may be omitted), <kbd><var>Mon</var>, <var>15</var> <var>Jan</var> <var>2001</var> <var>14</var>:<var>56</var>:<var>00</var></kbd>
:* RFC 850 format (timezone may be omitted), <kbd><var>Monday</var>, <var>15</var>-<var>Jan</var>-<var>2001</var> <var>14</var>:<var>56</var>:<var>00</var></kbd>
:* C ctime format, <kbd><var>Mon</var> <var>Jan</var> <var>15</var> <var>14</var>:<var>56</var>:<var>00</var> <var>2001</var></kbd>
:* Seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z as a 1 to 13 digit integer (excluding <kbd>0</kbd>)
:* The string <kbd>now</kbd>

Tooltip text for the drop-down box for choosing the formatting style of the selected text, such as "Heading 1", "Heading 2" or "Plain text". (This is not related to "file format" or "data format", such as "Wikitext", "HTML", "PDF" etc.)

Format of the help output.

The format of the output.

The format of the output.

Format string for the title of a talk page; $1 is the semantic title of the subject page corresponding to the talk page.
{{Identical|Discuss}}

Word used to indicate that the format parameter is set to the standard format
{{Identical|Standard}}

Word used to indicate that the format parameter is set to the outline format

Log entry format for MassAction logs of type newtask. Parameters:
* $1 - the user who performed the action, which is a link to the user page
* $2 - the user who performed the action, which is used for GENDER
* $4 - the taskid

Timestamp format to use for output, 'ISO_8601' or 'MW'.  'MW' is deprecated here, so all clients should switch to 'ISO_8601'.  This parameter will be removed, and 'ISO_8601' will become the only output format.

When feedback is to be discussed on the user's talk page, this is the content template that will be provided.

Parameters:
* $1 - (Unused) the user that submitted the feedback (either the IP for anonymous user, or in the format [[User:Name|Name]] for registered users)
* $2 - (Unused) the permalink to the feedback that'll be discussed
* $3 - the date the feedback was submitted
* $4 - (Unused) the time the feedback was submitted
* $5 - the link to all feedback on this article
* $6 - the full feedback comment (will be empty in the event that feedback text is short and fits in the section title)
* $7 - the title of the page the feedback was submitted for

When feedback is to be discussed on the article's talk page, this is the content template that will be provided.

Parameters:
* $1 - the user that submitted the feedback (either the IP for anonymous user, or in the format [[User:Name|Name]] for registered users)
* $2 - the permalink to the feedback that'll be discussed
* $3 - the date the feedback was submitted
* $4 - (Unused) the time the feedback was submitted
* $5 - the link to all feedback on this article
* $6 - the full feedback comment (will be empty in the event that feedback text is short and fits in the section title)
* $7 - (Unused) the title of the page the feedback was submitted for

The result format to display parameter documentation for.

Format for displaying notifications when a user is thanked for their edit. Parameters:
* $1 is the username of the person sending the thanks, as plain text. Can be used for GENDER.
* $2 is a link to the user's edit. The text of the link is {{msg-mw|Notification-thanks-diff-link}}.
* $3 is the title of the page the user edited.

This is the description of the "[[wikipedia:prettyprint|prettyprint]]" parameter of the "JSON" [https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Result_formats result format] for [https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries inline queries].

Item in the formatting dropdown for preformatted text

"Pre-formatted" is the formal term for this kind of formatting - see [http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/literal.html this page from W3C] from 1997; roughly, it means "mono-spaced font, white space is listened to". The text retains all its other styling, though, and if you change it to a format that is more regular (like paragraph or eventually blockquote) you should still get all the styling retained as before.
{{Related|Visualeditor-formatdropdown}}
{{Identical|Preformatted}}

Format specifier for the month and date part of the revision timestamp. Month and weekday names will be localized. For formats, see: http://code.google.com/p/datejs/wiki/FormatSpecifiers.

If your language requires some text between the day, month and year (for example in the Galician language the word '''de''' is inserted: d de MMMM de yyyy) and the text includes characters which are format specifiers as listed in the above page, then they need to be inserted with HTML codes, see for instance the list at <http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm>. In Galician this is: 
<source lang=html4strict>
d &#100;&#101; MMMM &#100;&#101; yyyy
</source>
{{DataFormatSpecifiers/en}}

Describes the <var>format</var> parameter of the API module

Import error message displayed when a revision could not be unserialized.

This may happen if the content got corrupted or the serialization format is mis-reported.

Parameters:
* $1 - the name of the page the offending revision belongs to
* $2 - the ID of the offending revision, as reported in the dump that is being imported
* $3 - the content model reported for the offending revision in the dump that is being imported
* $4 - the serialization format reported for the offending revision in the dump that is being imported
{{Related|Import-error}}

This is the subheader of a help section.

{{Identical|Format}}

Like {{msg-mw|show-big-image-preview}}, but used in the case where the thumbnail of the file is in a different format than the original image (e.g. For SVG or DjVu files).

* $1 - a link which points to the thumbnail. Its text is {{msg-mw|Show-big-image-size}}
* $2 Uppercase normalized extension of original file.
* $3 Uppercased extension of thumbnail.